Decrowned former Miss California title holder Carrie Prejean gave an impassioned speech last week at a conference for a conservative Christian activist group, The Family Research Council. Radar Online has a video of part of Carrie’s speech and she goes on at length about how she was a shoe-in for the Miss USA title but got shut out due to her answer against gay marriage during the question and answer period. She comes across as incredibly self-righteous, which isn’t a departure for her at all but she does ratchet up the volume here, and says things like “Miss USA needed me,” “I feel as if I’m Miss Universe,” and “God chose me.” Maybe she was preaching to the choir at that event, but she looks like a deluded fool to the rest of us. This woman was handed a lot of opportunities and while she probably did lose the Miss USA crown due to her answer at the pageant, she definitely only has herself to blame for the way she alienated everyone afterwards. Donald Trump even gave her another chance after pageant directors outlined the many ways she violated her contract – and she blew it with her attitude.

The Miss California USA controversy may be old news, but Carrie Prejean isn’t fading away into the background. On Friday, Prejean – saying God chose her – spoke to a group of 1,700 Christian conservative activists in Washington, at the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit.

Prejean said she has been subject to intolerance for her staunch stance against gay marriage, the opinion that kicked off a media firestorm last spring.

“Miss USA wanted me, needed me — they needed a woman like me,” Prejean, 22, said. “And I knew as soon as I didn’t give the PC answer, I knew there was no way I would become Miss USA.”

Prejean said she was subject to a “vicious storm of attacks” after the controversy ensued.

“I feel as if I’m Miss Universe,” Prejean said. “God chose me for that moment, because he knew that I would not only stick up for him… but that I am strong enough to get through all of the junk I have been through.”

[From RadarOnline]

We know you feel as though you’re Miss Universe, Carrie, and that you think you’re on a mission from God to deny people their civil rights, but the rest of us just think you’re full of yourself. Ironically, Carrie says toward the end of the video when talking about the media backlash she received that “I am so disgusted at the way that some people can be so intolerant. It disgusts me.” Right back ‘atcha, honey. She also gets all choked up and starts to cry before she says “even though I didn’t win the crown that night, I know that the Lord has so much of a bigger crown in heaven for me.” Somehow I don’t think she’s crying at the prospect of meeting her maker.

This isn’t the last we’ll be hearing of Carrie Prejean. Along with continuing to play the wronged poster girl for conservative values, she has a book coming out in November called “Still Standing: The Untold Story Against Hate, Gossip and Political Attacks.” Radar quotes Carrie’s publisher as saying she wrote it herself and didn’t use a ghostwriter. Gee, I wonder if she’ll take any responsibility for the way she refused to work with pageant officials, shirked multiple event appearances, and violated her contract by not disclosing several nude photo shoots taken ahead of the pageant. God is on her side, though, so she can do no wrong.