In this case, I will console myself with the fact that this is a very important issue outlining the hypocrisy of the religious right:
Carrie Prejean, former Miss California who was fired under scandal, has dropped her lawsuit against pageant officials. Both parties have withdrawn their lawsuits and in an official settlement statement reads, “ Carrie Prejean, Keith Lewis, and K2 productions have dropped their claim against each other and wish each other the best in their future endeavors.” Carrie gets no money other than her attorney fees. The reason, as reported by TMZ, Carrie settled the suit is that the pageant officials were going to release a tape of the lovely Miss California masturbating. Yes it looks like the good Miss Prejean had made a little home movie that got into the hands of pageant officials and she did not want it to go public. On a lighter note, Carrie Prejean will get to keep the money she was given for breast implants and her book will hit the stores soon.
I wonder will the National Organization for Marriage call this a case of persecution against Christians?
Really though, while people are most likely tired of the Carrie Prejean saga, it's important to remember just how quickly the religious right embraced Prejean, making it seem that she was the victim of lgbt persecution rather than the words of just one, albeit highly annoying, lgbt blogger and "personality."
They even went as far as to call her a latter-day Queen Esther.
One wonders what the spin will be on this one?
I think I know: "Carrie Prejean didn't commit a sin because Jesus never said a word about masturbation."
Related post:
Carrie Prejean saved traditional marriage - a lie you can't believe even if you were high on acid
Of course it was some mean gay person who sent that tape to TMZ, after forcing her to make it in the first place. They've had it in for her since day one. ;-)
ReplyDeleteEditor's note - I am featuring a comment that defends Prejeans. However, I am doing it this way because the comment featured a video. The comment was good but the video should have been cleared with me first:
ReplyDeleteWhen are Prejean’s bashers going to get it?
There is nothing wrong whatsoever about a Christian making a sex tape--per se. If there’s anything un-Christian about this sex tape, it’s that it was made with a boyfriend instead of a husband–in other words, premarital sex. Why are the voices in chorus against her not decrying the countless others who have not exactly clung to the rules of premarital chastity? Which is damn near everyone…
The matter of the relationship may be a question to be debated. Even among sincere Christians there is some call to rethink the strict rules of the past.
The sex video itself is incidental.
And who said this: “Marriage is the union between a man and a woman. And for me, as a Christian, it is also a sacred union.”
Another right-wing homophobe? Well you decide.
This are the words of then-candidate Barack Hussein Obama, campaigning in Lake Forest, CA.
Where is the chorus of accusation against him? I guess what is reprehensible for a pretty conservative is perfectly OK for a darling of the left.
And they say SHE is a hypocrite?
My friend, when Barack Obama makes a sex tape (perish the thought) then you will have a point.
ReplyDeleteIn this case, you miss the point. Many of us in the lgbt community defended Prejean's comments. We didn't particularly like the way Perez Hilton attacked her.
However, Prejean has no one to blame but herself because she carried it too far. She placed herself on a pedestal even though she knew she had clay feet.
Your comments about the appropriateness of her alleged tape more than proves the point I made in another post about the hypocrisy of phony Christians. When you put yourself on a pedestal, you really don't have the right to jump on and off that pedestal like a yo-yo.
Please accept my apology for the link. I should have asked about that first.
ReplyDelete===
I'm not sure what you meant, that she put herself "on a pedestal." It's one thing to advocate something, another to tout oneself a paragon of it. Rev. Dimmesdale is remorseful (to extremes), hardly a hypocrite. In contrast, there are some pretty loud voices--certain Christian telvangelists come to mind--who truly merit the label. Their indiscretions are not just weak flesh succumbing to temptation; they perfectly well intend to continue whatever it is they're doing. They are hypocrites. And regardless of their words and bleats, they are not Christian.
I don't quite follow you when you refer to Prejean going "too far" and her clay feet. It appears you continue to cling to the myth that her making a sex like this is inherently immoral. It was made for strictly private enjoyment, and in and of itself, is not wrong. If she and her boyfriend had been husband and wife, there would be nothing any Christian could properly say was wrong. Many would, anyway, no doubt. They'd be mistaken.
You lost me with the Scarlett Letter reference. When I say Prejean went too far, I mean she is exploiting this situation to make it seem as if she is a victim when she wasn't. Many lgbts were in her corner when Hilton made the unfair attack on her. However, she began to brand the entire community with a broad brush and she was too eager to appear on news program after news program going on about how she was "attacked" for her beliefs. The majority of the anger was at her need to consistently exploit the incident for her own purposes. Now about her feet of clay, Prejean did allow herself to be used by organizations who go beyond the call of duty when it comes to speeches and inferences of how the world is so evil and they are last line of defense to keep America from sinking into the so-called abyss. When you carry inferences that far, you only invite scrutiny when its discovered that you are not as "pure" as you made yourself out to be.
ReplyDeleteI can't speak for her, of course, but I believe she initially meant the official statements of pageant officials branding her "bigot" and worse (not to mention not-so-official, but believed, pageant voices who did worse), which persisted for a long time, and tacit acceptance of Hilton's defamations. Whatever you or I may think of pageants, considering her role in this one, they are an institution with a big voice and those attacks on Prejean's character are no trivial matter.
ReplyDeleteThe grossly unequal treatment she got from much of the big media is clearly based on her beliefs. When those modeling photos surfaced it was almost amusing to see many of the big media, entertainment media particularly, perfectly comfortable with reporting how this or that famous couple who never married are having their third kid, suddenly turned Bible-thumper to condemn her showing a little nipple. Yes, she lied when she denied them, and that's a moral issue she must address privately; but really, now many of her critics are really morally indignant about her denials, specifically?
I disapproved of the Right's attempts to make political hay of Bill "Define Sex" Clinton's deceptions; that is his, Hillary's and Lewinski's business only;
but apart from that bunch of right-wing zealots, the contrast between the reaction of big names and big voices to things like that compared to their reaction to Prejean cannot be ascribed to anything but her beliefs and professions.
[Vanna White did a lingerie spread before her Wheel of Fortune days. She was very hurt when Playboy published it without asking her first; still, it was tasteful and beautiful. She showed a hell of a lot more skin than Prejean did, but she neither got, nor deserved, censure for them like Prejean is getting.
The famous pin-up queen, Bettie Page, became Christian and yet never called her earlier work immoral. And she was right not to.]
Dimmesdale did the big bad thing and yet continued to preach against it. He's not a hypocrite because he did not deny his wrong to himself and his God; he went overboard in the other direction. I haven't the right to judge the right and wrong of Prejean's behavior; neither do you, or any other human on the planet but she herself. Anyone who does is, indeed, attacking her.
Oh yeah, Prejean is being treated badly. The poor thing has to suffer through a whole lot of media attention, public appearances, and her book tour. Come Porlock. Prejean is not being treated badly by the media at all. She is an eclessiastical version of Octo-Mom, the next big media hype if you will and you know she is enjoying every minute of it, despite her verbal trepidations.
ReplyDeleteTen to one she is in talks about having a reality show series.