Meet Hannah Roberts, aka Miss Mississippi. The biochemistry graduate from the University of Southern Mississippi lit up social media after throwing a bit of Southern-style shade at Rowan County clerk Kim Davis during Sunday’s Miss America contest.
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“Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis was jailed for defying the Supreme Court’s order to issue same-sex marriage licenses. She claims the order violates her religious freedom. Does it?” the judge asked.
Though she had 20 seconds to answer the question, Roberts only needed half the time. Without missing a beat, she smiled and said: “It absolutely does not violate her religious freedom. That is her job that she was voted into doing, and that law is a federal law throughout the rest of the country. So, yes, she did violate the law there. Thank you.”
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Afterwards, Roberts was met with thunderous applause from the auditorium. Some folks on social media, however, weren’t so supportive of the response.
“Renowned theologian Miss Mississippi says Kim Davis violated federal law,” Fox News contributor Todd Starnes tweeted.
“She lost it with her Kim Davis answer,” another person tweeted.
Roberts may not have been crowned Miss America last night, but she certainly won in our book.
Glücklich
They’re still in business?
AtticusBennett
Todd Starnes is such an unimpressive troll that his mere existence made his own catholic mother go from staunchly anti-abortion to thinking “abortions are actually a rather good thing”
so there.
jwtraveler
Wow. Mississippi!
Realitycheck
Kudos to Hannah Roberts for speaking against homophobia!!!
Linda James
Good on her.
Diane Lyle
yep so do alot of others!!!!! ignorant ppl are sicking for real !!
Jack Finley
TRUTH!
Enrico Celeste-Tamisen De Esser
go go go Miss Mississippi
Paul V. Vitagliano
BlueDude
You GO, Ms Roberts! Not everyone who lives in MS is a bigoted hick, but they are the vast majority. I, too, am a USM alumnus, 1972. Until the dumb@ss religio-tard pastors, and their flocks, can fully grasp the actual meaning of “freedom of religion”, there will be Kim Davis-type wingnuts living in cultural darkness, looking like the hillbillies they are, and waving Confederate flags. Unfortunately, for all of us, they’re spread from Maine to California, but concentrated in the South.
Daniel-Reader
Good for her for saying so. As far as FOX News, their 2nd largest owner is part of the authoritarian Saudi royal family which commits murder and other atrocities against women, Christians, and GLBT people so FOX News and its employees needs to own up to their part making money off such a criminal individual.
Janice Lloyd
I heard what she said…GUTSY girl. YOU GO BABY
captainburrito
Why would you need to be a theologian to know she violated federal law? Wouldn’t knowledge of her actions and the law be sufficient?
sportyguy1983
I don’t care what a beauty pageant contestant thinks about Social issues
Giancarlo85
@sportyguy1983: I don’t care what you think about social issues.
Louis
Wonderful response someone who actually gets it.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Hannah’s concise, intelligent, utterly correct comment is a awesome FCUK YOU to all the inbred hatefilled conserative bigot………………..
Desert Boy
Wow! A pageant girl with a brain. She’s 180′ degrees different from Jean Prejean.
Cam
She isn’t stupid, she isn’t going to end up another Carrie Prejean.
She knows that to work in the real world you can’t cater to a small angry rac-ist, bigoted contingent.
Their problem is, more and more people are figuring that out.