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Watch the interview to see how Prejean and McPherson develop a persecution narrative based on the role that Prejean's anti-gay-marriage answer at the Miss USA pageant apparently played in denying her the crown. McPherson invokes the Jewish Purim story about Queen Esther's heroic efforts to help save the Jews from a Persian plot to kill them by revealing her own Jewish identity. "This is exactly what happened to [Prejean]," McPherson says, using Miss California's ordeal as a call to arms for Christians to stand up for their beliefs.