CNN (as well as just about every news agency and tabloid under the sun!) is reporting that Miss California USA Carrie Prejean will be allowed to keep her crown, despite the recent controversies surrounding her title, her contest answer to a politically charged question, and modeling photographs that are showing up on the internet.
The final decision--for reasons most people would never expect--did not land with pageant organizers or a talent agency or the courts or even public sentiment. Nope, the decision rested with "The Donald," Donald Trump himself. And he made it after a brief meeting with Ms. Prejean.
"We're in the 21st century," he said, explaining to reporters the Ms. Prejean is a model and that she had acted within accepted parameters for that business. Oh, but this was about so much more than that, some of it good and some of it not so good.
Ms. Prejean stood up for her beliefs in a pageant known more for politics and perception rather than substance, and that's good.
Ms. Prejean's controversy had more to do with her stance about same-sex marriage than it did modeling pictures, and that's bad.
Ms. Prejean knew her answer in the Miss Universe pageant could well cost her the title and she said it anyway, even adding a gentle word of sensitivity to those who would disagree, and that's good.
Ms. Prejean's opinion that "marriage is between a man and a woman" would not have even been a controversy throughout much of our nation's history, and that's bad.
Ms. Prejean answered a politically charged question with a spiritual response and she has stated so repeatedly. Her core faith convictions won out over a lust for celebrity or the prize of being the pageant winner, and that's most especially good not only for her but for all that a pageant should be about--role modeling for young people watching.
But she's been criticized for it and sensationalized for it, and it's become a political (rather than a spiritual) issue and that's bad for everyone except the media.
The Donald put an end to all that with a simple decision. This was one time that a corporate top-down hierarchical structure actually worked. No one's gonna say "You're Fired" to Mr. Trump. Had this decision been anyone else but the boss's, her title would have disappeared.
In the end, how fun, that agreement was actually found between the Focus on the Family faithful, the slick beauty of pageants, and the esteemed Mr. Trump. Ah, the wonder of culture when matters of faith and political correctness collide!
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Ah! Why are we as Christians heralding this young woman as an example of our faith?? This is so frustrating! Her core beliefs won out at the pageant but where were those beliefs when she got free breast implants, took the bra off, and lied on her contract? I applaud her standing up for her convictions at the pageant but she has shown that those values are not a part of her everyday life. She makes us all look like hypocrites. It's no wonder why we are losing the youth to secularism. We continue to show them we don't follow what we preach. She is an opportunist. Where are the true Christian leaders who lead by example and action not just words.
I'm glad she kept her title although I'm 100% opposed to her view on gay marriage. She was asked a question, which she answered honestly. As for the pictures, please, check out the current pop stars and their get-ups. She's no more immodest than they are.
Makes no difference what shade of Christianity she practices.
The problem is that the Gay Mafia does not practice nor model decent human behavior.
So, you have thrown away both your morals and positive belief system in order to scourge a bathing beauty contestant and promote gender bias.
This wasn't the first time you promoted bigotry. You tried to blame the defeat of Prop 8 on black people, when you knew full well that the majority of that state, anglos, asians, and hispanics voted with their huge numbers against it.
You apparently forgot that you have something in common with the black man, and went all lynch mob on their small minority----because its American to racially discriminate----and that you simply could.
Gay Mafioso: Promoting both gender bias against women and racial bigotry against blacks because you see them as small, powerless, and undeserving.
Oh, my gosh! That sounds so enlightening!
I guess you Gay Mafioso types really showed us!
Boy oh boy, has this raised a few eyebrows. Well, I raised three daughters and I can tell you that even as a liberal single parent this woman is not what I would want as a role model for my daughters. To preach to be Christian and that is why she disagrees with gay marriage and then to surgically enhance her body for the benefit of enticing men (we know that is why women do it)to pose for pictures that may not be full porn but are sexually suggestive, to lie on a contract, wellnow those are some great Christian values.
Yes we are all human and make mistakes but these are not mistakes these are a string of choices made and not with the Christian values at the helm. She is entitled to her opinion for sure but my problem is not so much with her opinion but her hypocritical life.
Nope, not a good role model to me. As for celebrities showing skin and such well no one has ever expected them to be clean of character but we have always expected our "beauty queens" to be of high character, intelligence, grace and charm.
Lots of "spotlight Christians" get comfortable playing to the gallery for personal gain, with automatic lip service, and get so smug doing so they forget what is actually coming out of their mouth.
Looks like the missing ingredient in Prejeans' life is her own perception of how her pursuit of commercial beauty pageant esteem can be mined from for her essay question pablum spouting Christianity.
It's always funny how people think they are role mdels when they are really hollow shells of ambition, conveniently functioning above the a radar as a public role model.
The emdia will get the truth out. That's the beauty of the Internet.
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