You can just see how clearly unaware she is that this picture is being taken.
As both a Christian and a normal, everyday person, I find repelling (and maybe worse: boring) the idea of Carrie Prejean as anything resembling a moral authority. I don’t mind that she’s made her career presenting herself to the world as masturbatory fodder. Except for maybe Hugh Hefner’s family, I don’t see anything “family values” about that, but women getting paid to sexually objectify themselves is as old as craven desire itself. What makes absurd Ms. Prejean being positioned as morally admirable is that she’s such an absurdly blatant liar. Saying she didn’t know those soft-porn photos of her were being taken is like an armed bank robber saying he didn’t know anyone would put money in his sack. She’s lying. How she imagines anyone won’t think she’s lying is so far beyond me that I can only assume thinking isn’t one of Ms. Prejean’s strong suits.
It is certainly Ms. Prejean’s right to pose for the cheesecake photos she did. But if we Christians ever want non-Christians to take us any more seriously than they do, we have got to stop proclaiming as upright moral heroes people who by their actions conclusively prove that they have no more right claiming a moral high ground than Ryan Seacrest would have claiming he’s a brain surgeon. It’s good that Ms. Prejean stood up for her belief that gays shouldn’t be allowed to get married. But that belief is part of a moral code, the much larger part of which she egregiously violated by out-and-out lying in public about what, why, and how she did what she did.
Prejean’s bald-faced lying should have obliterated the possibility of Christians holding her up as a hero—much less as, of all things, a moral authority. We need to stop embarrassing ourselves this way.
(By way of an update to this post, I today [11/12/o9] The Reason Carrie Prejean Wanted Her Ex to Lie About Her Porno Tape.)
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Hey John,
I guess I'm missing the hub-bub on the news about her as I thought it to be old news. This is the first I knew of her "modeling" past. With that said, if she really is continuing to lie and say she was underage when she was not, that she didn't know what she was doing in those pictures wasn't pornography, then I agree with you John. Of course, I too used to do a lot of things I shouldn't have and I am a work in progress. I celebrate the stance she took and fill she definitely was discriminated against for it in my opinion in the competition. Thing is, if we as Christians are not discriminated against, being treated unfairly and looked upon by the world as being weird and dangerous to a depraved lifestyle, then we need to do some self-evaluation. If she were telling the whole truth and sharing her faith in the media then I'd say she should be looked upon as a good example. Not coming with the truth even in the face of persecution, to me means that real repentance has not had it's full work, YET.
-Kory
Or even dropped instead of stopped. Thanks anyway, predictive text…
(Thankfully I'm posting from my PC rather than my phone, so I can be Derek and not Derelict
)
I must agree with Sarah on the presumptions that the beautiful in this world face. A friend of mine who does stand-up once pointed out that the cliché about the tall and glamorous lacking personality and humour has some basis in fact. When you have good looks, you never have to develop qualities such as intelligence, personality, a sense of humour and civility to get attention from others.
Two things:
1. I think that many people who have always been told how beautiful they are and a great deal of emphasis has been placed on physical beauty sometimes grow up to believe that anything they say or do will just automatically be accepted or, in this instance, believed … simply because they're just too precious NOT to believe or forgive. What a rude awakening it must be to find out that sometimes pretty just ain't enough and a little substance is called for.
2. I don't know enough about her to know if she claims that she posed suggestively or provocatively PRIOR to her years of being a Christian or not. If someone makes a mistake and asks for forgiveness AND plots a course for higher ground, then all is forgiven, amen. But LYING instead of just owning up to the errors in judgment she may have had in the past isn't OK. I think this is the point you're making, Mr. Shore. And I agree. That isn't being judgmental of her … that's holding her to a standard that all Christians should embrace if they believe what the Bible says.
Ummm . . . it's a great picture, though, don't you think? I know you've been trying to get good pictures in all of your posts lately, John, and I have to admit, you worked it with this one.
The trouble I think is that some people seem to need to embrace the whole person on the basis of agreeing with them on one or a couple of subjects. Standards for places on pedestals seem to have stopped considerably in recent times.
Isn't the real judgment being passed against the "christian" media??? Which is where I humbly think it should be focused.
~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 100% in love,
Dane Muhlig
El Cajon, CA
victoryworldquest.com
A and C. I don’t think Christians would ever look heinous and/or hypocritical if they insisted that those whom they’re championing renounce their public lies. If my child gets caught in a lie, I guide him into admitting that and apologizing for it. Confessing is what we Christians are supposed to do. There’s certainly no shame in Christians creating for other Christians a place and space for them to confess and renounce their purposeful, ongoing, and opportunistic lies. Instead of embracing, supporting, and aligning with CP—or, to put it more cynically—exploiting her, The National Organization for Marriage and Focus on the Family, for instance, should have encouraged her to come clean, or clearly distanced themselves from her for refusing to do so.
Annnnnnnnnd I’m done with this topic.
I’m late to this party, so I apologize for the questions.
So what should those Christians (the ones who publicly supported her) have done *after* her lies came out?
Should they have said:
A. “We made a mistake. We shouldn’t have run to her defense. It turns out she is a liar.”
B. “Her statement is one thing. Her personal behavior is another.”
C. “She does not speak for Christians.”
D. All of the above.
E. None of the above. ________________
I totally get it that you’re angry about Christians making an ongoing liar a “spokesperson for the faith.”
But what’s the way out?
Won’t Christians look even more heinous and hypocritical to the non-believing world if they abandon her once she’s been caught in lies?
Lindsey, nothing wrong with your questions, honey . . . but the discussion is over for many of us.
Our answers have been as varied as Dry Cereals on grocery store shelves. Arguments never edify!
Let's look at some good things happening in our society…things the general Press and Media find no tintillation in. Watch Oprah this week . . . heroes are featured…brilliant, talented children with rare and beautiful gifts are showing their talents on her stage! . . . makes the heart sing! God has created such beautiful things in the world around us . . . think on these things!
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