Ordinarily, we would probably be wise just to move on from last week's flap over Miss USA contestant Carrie Prejean's truthful pageant answer on same-sex marriage, but subsequent news reports reveal we are drawing the wrong lessons from the brouhaha.

Prejean — in response to the trick question from gay activist blogger Perez Hilton, one of the pageant's judges — refused to endorse same-sex marriage, which probably resulted in her losing the crown she was favored to win.

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