I can't say that anybody comes off looking very good in the whole brouhaha over Miss California Carrie Prejean's answer on gay marriage, which she claims cost her the Miss USA crown. I appreciate Donald Trump standing up for her, and pointing out that her position on gay marriage, which made so many people have a hissy fit about her supposed bigotry, is the same position Barack Obama espouses, at least publicly. Like Allahpundit said (follow the link to the Donald announcement), if the pageant organizers didn't want political controversy, they shouldn't have allowed that jerk Perez Hilton to ask a politically controversial question.
Still, it's a little hard to take seriously as a defender of the faith a California beauty pageant contestant who had a boob job, and who once posed topless for publicity photos. But in the end, I agree with The Anchoress, who mostly sides with Prejean, but says what's happening to her is a cautionary tale. Excerpt:
Let this be a lesson to young ladies everywhere, but especially young ladies who profess Christ; if you're going to take off your top for a camera, be prepared (sooner or later) to have to answer for it, both in this world, and the next. But in this world, the chances are you will have to defend your nudity against the jeers, sneers and fake prudery of those "open-minded" folks who would never, for an instant, tolerate anyone telling them what they should or should not do with their own bodies, but will crucify you for the choices you made with your own. You'll have to answer for it because when you profess yourself a Christian, you choose exile, and you will be held to a different standard, entirely, than the world's.And that is not a bad thing, but you girls must think about that.
In the next world, of course, you'll have to answer to Christ, himself, who is much more merciful than the rest of us. He will likely ask you why you threw your pearls before swine.
He may gently ask you if you realized at the time that your actions could lead others into sin, by helping them to treat another human being (you) as a "thing".
Which, you know, is why Christians really ought not to be in beauty pageants.
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""Brainless tart in a bikini who distracts the country from more important issues."
That would aptly describe Perez Hilton to the max.
If bathing suit beauty contestants are brainless, why attack them in the first place? Because you are trying to start a gender war?
It was the agenda of the Gay Mafioso to distract the country from more important issues----and they succeeded.
Where were you when they passed out the agenda?
Were you also missing when the Gay Mafia promoted racial bigotry against blacks by trying to make a small minority take the fall for what the majority of WHITES, Asians, and Hispanics did in killing same-sex marriage in Cali?
The Gay Mafia made her a martyr. Nobody hardly looks at these stupid pageant shows, and most don't know who the reigning queen is. Now live with it.
My goodness, could there possibly be a dumber term than "Gay Mafia"? It's a juxtaposition that is not only not clever, it doesn't even make any sense. It's like saying "the Presbyterian Yakuza" or something.
stari_momak:
Prejean has done more for the cause of a robust heterosexuality with a photo shoot and a 5 second answer than all the legions of Maggie Gallaghers out there. Her pre-transplant photos should be issued to every 13 year old boy in America. I'm sure they will swing a lot of the 'bicurious' kids around to the side of goodness and light.
Bull. You might be interested to know that I actually had pages from the SI swimsuit edition posted in my locker for a time when I was in high school. I hadn't come to terms with my own sexuality at that point, but it basically went up as a way of conforming to expectations more than any real sexual attraction to what those pictures depicted.
Trust me, you're not going to turn gay or bi kids straight by flooding their lives with soft-core porn. And even suggesting that you can really tells you something about how sick and twisted the social conservatives have become. When homosexuality is such a huge threat to them that they actually want to promote pornography (soft-core or otherwise), well, all I can say is you've come a long way, baby!
I'd also point out that with the advent of the internet, getting access to porn really isn't a problem for teenagers these days.
AHahahahaha!
Brett R.: "Presbyterian Yakuza"
I like that.
Much as I dislike Donald Trump, I think he did the right thing allowing Prejean to keep her title. I fully support her right to her conservative opinions. Now, I hope she will realize that "discretion is the better part of valor" and stop painting herself as a Christian martyr, which has become tiresome.
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