Tami Farrell, Carrie Prejean, and…the countdown to I Don’t Care has begun, but hasn’t reached zero yet.

Via Jammie Wearing Fool, new Miss California Tami Farrell shares her predecessor’s views on gay marriage:

Fox News host Neil Cavuto asked Farrell, who is Christian, on his show today:

“[Prejean] went out and said that a marriage is between a man and a woman. Do you share that view?”

Farrell responded in the affirmative with a simple, “Uh huh.”

“You do, OK,” said Cavuto.

Farrell quickly added: “I don’t think that I have the right or anybody has a right to tell somebody who they can or can’t love. And I think that this is a civil rights issue. And I think that the right thing to do is let the voters decide.”

I want to be a little careful, here, since I haven’t been able to find that exchange anywhere else. Not that I looked real hard. Let’s just call this an excuse to post another picture.

Also: Carrie Prejean is hitting back against claims that she was difficult to work with, and wasn’t honoring her contract.

Prejean told Matt Lauer on NBC’S “Today” show Friday that she “absolutely” had been dethroned because of the comment, when she said marriage should be between a man and a woman.

Prejean lost her title Wednesday after the California pageant’s executive director said Prejean was skipping Miss California USA events while speaking out against gay marriage at unsanctioned appearances.

Prejean denied that and calls her firing a set up. She says “tolerance needs to be a two-way street.”

Here’s what the other side is saying:

On The Early Show Thursday, Keith Lewis, the executive director of Miss California USA…told co-anchor Julie Chen Prejean missed “tens and tens” of appearances and was “difficult to work with.”

Lewis said Prejean told competition officials she couldn’t attend events because she had other things to do, and declined to appear in Hollywood.

…Lewis called Prejean’s relationship with pageant officials “combative.”

Well, whether she honored her contract or not ought to come out in a court case, if there is one. But, boy, she must have been really combative and difficult if an organization that exists to promote pampered celebrity models and beauty queens fired her for it.