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Miss California beauty pageant executive directors Keith Lewis (left) and Shanna Moakler, who sacked Carrie Prejean

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Note to the religious Right: if you're going to ask a surgically enhanced beauty queen to promote family values, it's best to check that her previous career hasn't involved soft core pornography.

Carrie Prejean, the former Miss California whose opposition to gay marriage made her American conservatism's top pin-up, stands accused of an act of hypocrisy that would embarrass even the nation's political class: starring in what salacious news reports are calling a "solo sex tape".

The film, obtained by tabloid website TMZ.com, is described as "an X-rated version of Home