Now that you've launched tinfoil-hat dismissals of both global-warming and gay-genetics science, is there anything else you'd like to debunk? The earth orbiting around the sun, perhaps?

This does not mean there is always choice per se, as children do not choose their environment or genes, and this orientation seems to be established early. It is their nature, broadly defined.

Nevertheless, it remains obvious that we choose to act on our nature, or not to act on it. If I chose to act on every natural impulse, I probably would not be alive today.

The pageant. What an excellent way to trivialize such a contentious religious, social, scientific, and political issue. Well done!

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And I also agree with you on your other main point – there's plenty of ways to ascertain whether or not these girls can speak intelligently without dabbling in controversial politics. It's idiocy.

Thirdly, the feminist movement would obviously like these pageants to become a thing of the past. They won't, because women watch them as much or more than men. They should focus their ire more on the culture of hip-hop, which has done far more in my opinion to degrade women (the word pimp has become something to aspire to in America – how creepy and inappropriate is that?) than beauty pageants could ever have done. Some self-appointed black leaders have paid minimal lip service to the issue, but their efforts haven't even been half-hearted.