Oddly enough, the most famous Miss USA contestant this year did not actually win the Miss USA crown. The name of the reigning Miss USA has slipped my mind, but the first runner-up, Miss California, Carrie Prejean, has in some ways already been bestowed with a reigning platform: traditional marriage and Biblical correctness.
During the question round of the competition, judge Perez Hilton (who happens to be a homosexual) asked her a controversial question regarding same-sex marriage. In her response, Miss California dutifully represented her State by which the citizens demanded the marriage-protecting Proposition 8 through popular vote. Furthermore, she was asked for her opinion on the subject, and she gave it. The pivotal scene and an interview with Carrie Prejean afterward can be seen here. She explains the inner conflict she felt when presented with the question – which she believes was a test from GOD:
“At that moment, I was getting ready to answer my question, and I started saying I think that Americans, you know, we have the right to choose, but then something inside of me said, ‘Carrie, stand up for what you believe in and say what you feel and represent the majority of California. You’re Miss California! The majority of voters believe that a marriage is between a man and a woman.’”
She also went on to say that she didn’t want to be politically correct, but Biblically correct.
Beauty pageant contestants are supposedly not judged for the opinions they give when answering during the question round of the competition. I remember a similar supposition when I prepared to take the ACT Writing Test, which asked questions that reminded me of Miss-America-type queries (by the way, I failed that test – basically because I responded that the question I was asked shouldn’t be an issue). For Miss California to be so close to victory, it appears that the one thing that incited at least one judge to lower her score was her answer to the question about gay marriage. Why on earth a homosexual man was on the judging panel for the Miss USA competition is beyond me, but the entire scenario has brought the issue into a spotlight for heated debate.
One thing that people need to understand is that the debate has been incorrectly defined. Gay marriage is not a civil rights issue. Properly speaking, you might call it an “uncivil” rights issue. It is not dealing with prejudice and discrimination against people due to naturally occurring superficial differences such as ethnicity. Rather, it is dealing with unnatural choices that a tiny minority of people chooses to impose upon society – choices that the majority of the world population – probably down to the most primitive tribes imaginable – considers to be wrong. Nevertheless, any of us who refuse to accept such nonsense are called bigots… or, in the case of Miss California, berated with far worse language.
Imagine that a group of fifteen children are playing a game and two children enter the room demanding the game rules be changed to accommodate them because they have a different standard and insist they can’t do anything to change themselves.If the fifteen players refuse because they view the two others to be wrong, and those two then repeatedly harass them about it, who are the real bigots – the stable majority or the quirky minority?
This is what mystifies me; if someone chooses to be a homosexual, they are already breaking traditional rules, so why do they even care for a pinnacle of traditional rule – marriage – to be open to them? Evidently, it is their attempt to normalize the abnormal, and make the insane appear sane. Just as many an elite analyst has attempted to prove that Jackson Pollack’s chaotic paint splashes have the delicate designs of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, all the while trying to make Mona Lisa’s smile out to be some sort of mysterious omen, and others have elevated the Big Bang to sacred history while laughing at the Bible, humanists that are obsessed with one thing or another devote their lives to making sense out of nonsense and nonsense out of sense.
Like all outspoken conservative Christians, Carrie Prejean was bound to experience public backlash. As Ann Coulter stated, “Take a Christian position in public and Satan’s handmaidens will turn all your secrets into front-page news”. Some of the dirt dug up by Miss Prejean’s opponents included scantily clad photographs that Prejean said were a requirement for a modeling resume and not intended for publication.
“I am a Christian, and I am a model,” Prejean said in a statement released overnight to the media. “Models pose for pictures, including lingerie and swimwear photos. Recently, photos taken of me as a teenager have been released surreptitiously to a tabloid Web site that openly mocks me for my Christian faith. I am not perfect, and I will never claim to be.”
A liberal woman questioned Carrie Prejean’s Christianity because she appeared in the Miss USA contest wearing a two-piece swimsuit (along with the other contestants, I might add). Interesting that a feminist never noticed immodesty before, isn’t it? This brings to mind a clever quote I discovered as a World Views student:
“When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church
is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.” – G. K. Chesterton
That statement is not encouraging us to sin, but rather pointing out that, sadly, the Bible’s teaching on sin is the one thing that we Christians tend to be very good at proving! How humiliating! However, true Christians never claim to be without sin, but rather to be redeemed from the condemnation that our sinful selves deserve. We must repent to the best of our ability. As a Christian woman, modesty is an area that I personally would refuse to compromise on, as we can see from the mistakes of prominent women that immodesty can give the devil an opportunity to hinder your mission and turn things to his advantage – and giving the devil an opportunity is one thing we are admonished against (Ephesians 4:27).
Current events surrounding Carrie Prejean suggest that it is worth considering the following take on liberal feminism:
“Liberals wouldn’t attack James Dobson with the amount of bile they’ve directed at a 21-year-old beauty contestant. It’s not just Christianity – it’s women liberals hate… liberals are ferocious misogynists. They share Muslims’ opinion of women, differing only to the extent that liberals also support a woman’s right to have an abortion and to perform lap dances…
…You’d be better off in a real burqa than under the authority of a liberal American male…
…But what is crying out for an explanation is why every bubble-head TV news anchorette from a nice, churchgoing red state ends up adopting the political views of Karl Marx… The only way to protect yourself is to do the liberal male’s bidding, as the bubble-head anchorettes do, or stand on the rock of Christianity.
From Katie Couric on CBS to Norah O’Donnell on MSNBC, the whole stable of TV anchorettes weirdly have the exact same politics as their liberal masters. It’s the ideological burqa women are required to wear to work in the mainstream media. As with a conventional burqa, it enforces conformity and severely restricts the vision.
Now, another beautiful Christian has thrown off the liberal burqa, thereby inciting mass hysteria throughout the liberal establishment. Prejean doesn’t care. She is blazing across the sky, as impotent nose-pickers jockey for a piece of her reflected light by hurling insults at her.” – Ann Coulter
We have missions to accomplish, and though none of us followers of CHRIST will be perfect in this fallen world through our own fleshly power, if we acknowledge the LORD in all our ways, HE shall direct our paths (Proverbs 3:6)!
Written by: Amanda Read. For more articles and thoughts from Amanda, visit her site at AmandaRead.com
Footnotes:
Sean Hannity and the Great American Panel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpsyf8L5GDc
2 “Miss California: I’ll fight on despite racy photos – Prejean claims foes of her same-sex marriage views released them” http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/30576251/
3 “Liberal Taliban Issues Fatwa Against Miss California” http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31863
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