Miss California, Carrie Prejean, certainly made ripples a few weeks ago at the Miss USA pageant when she took a stand against gay marriage–whether these were positive or negative ripples she sent outward depends on your politics. And yesterday Donald Trump, the owner of the pageant, decided not to strip Prejean of her crown.
Even so, feminist theologian and scholar Paula Cooey takes Miss CA to town for her “bad theology” in her scathing assessment of Prejean’s hypocrisy–which somehow allows her to be against gay marriage and pro breast augmentation in the same breath. Here’s a snippet of Cooey’s fascinating piece, “Carrie Prejean, God’s Prophet or Porn Star?“:
“Regarding cultural hypocrisy, Carrie Prejean had breast implant surgery just weeks before the pageant, bought and paid for by the California Pageant people at her request. More recently, photos of Prejean bare-breasted have surfaced (and keep surfacing–see left half of story image). She was seventeen at the time they were taken. Apparently unaware that the country is currently debating whether to criminalize “sexting” by minors as the transmission of pornography (a conviction that could label them as sexual predators for the rest of their lives), her response is quite simply that she was a model at the time and that everyone makes mistakes. And, she asserted once again that she is now a Christian. Oblivious to the possibility that theological consistency might lead to a conclusion that a god who prohibits homosexuality and homosexual marriage would not look favorably upon her interventions with her own body, she stands by her claim that God intends heterosexual marriage exclusively.”
Cooey’s writing is not for the theologically faint-hearted, certainly, but I think, worth the wade for sure. Happy reading.
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posted May 13, 2009 at 1:35 pm
I don’t take my theological lessons from beauty queens or pagaent participants who believe that body modification is the path to acceptance and happiness. God loves us as we are – all of us.
posted May 13, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Not sure how a beauty pageant contestant’s opinions on gay marriage have turned into such a big deal… She’s not a particularly bright bulb, but I think that the shots she’s taking are really just “piling on.” I have opinions on relationships, but I am divorced and have married again… does that disqualify me because of “Bad Theology?”
posted May 14, 2009 at 11:13 am
What a dumb feminist theologian attacking a woman for making herself beautiful. She should be more mindful of consistency and hypocrisy of her view. Unfortunately these foggy minded theologians are so common.
posted May 14, 2009 at 11:46 am
Putting breast augmentation on the same level as gay marriage is the real ‘bad theology’ here. One is an extension of make-up and the other is a clear violation of God’s order. Come on — more is revealed here about the writer than the subject…..
posted May 14, 2009 at 5:59 pm
How about the fact that she repeatedly LIED about the photos?
posted May 29, 2009 at 6:05 am
~Miss Hypocrite
Carrie Prejean, the Miss California contestant, was correct about homosexuality! It is mortal filth
and condemned by God’s Word…but Prejean poses semi nude and topless EXPOSING HER
BREASTS and revealing the bottom of her buttocks…then lied about it…and then she parades
her body around in the Miss California Pageant EXPOSING HER PARTIAL BREASTS and
buttocks in a sexual immoral swimsuit before the world!
She is 100% a HYPOCRITE and she does NOT represent Jesus Christ nor a Christian!!
Jesus said it this way, “Anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery
with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better
for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into Hell.” [Mt. 5:28,29]
Spoken with 100% love
Dane Muhlig
El Cajon, CA