Beauty Queens and their Courts (part ii)

Fire up the lawyers, ’cause Carrie Prejean’s gonna sue!

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Carrie Prejean has filed a lawsuit against Miss California USA officials who stripped her of her title, accusing them of libel and religious discrimination for her views on same-sex marriage.

“We will make the case that her title was taken from her solely because of her support of traditional marriage,” her attorney, Charles LiMandri, said in a news release.

I’m sure it’s just happy coincidence that “stripped of her title” is, in fact, the colloquially appropriate turn of phrase to use in this story.

I have no idea what Prejean’s been up to the last few months. She lost – oh, sorry, was stripped of – her title in June. She’s probably been writing a book or something:

Prejean wrote a book, “Still Standing,” to be released in November. She said it will discuss her side of the Miss USA controversy.

Her publisher, Regnery Publishing, said the book also will tell how she has faced a bias against conservatives — particularly conservative women, it said — who stand up for their beliefs.

So the lawsuit might be nothing more than headline-bait. You know, keep her in the public eye until it’s released, the better to spur sales. Okay by me, I guess.

P.S. Yeah, I know, I’m a day late on this story. Donald Douglas had it yesterday. Bonus at Donald’s place: Perez Hilton is still a classless jerk.