Miss California Carrie Prejean Lied About Semi-Nude Photos
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Miss California Carrie Prejean could be stripped of her title after organisers say she breached her contract by keeping topless photos secret.
A spokesman for the pageant said her disqualification was being discussed.
Apart from not being up front over the semi-nude pictures which appeared on an internet site, organisers of the Miss California USA pageant say Carrie Prejean also breached her contract by appearing unauthorised in commercials."
Now, let's get this straight, if that's the appropriate word here, there is no commandment amongst the Ten Commandments that has anything whatsoever to do with homosexuality, one way or the other, but there are two little inconvenient ones: "Thou shalt not lie," and "Thou shalt not bear false witness."
Apparently, "Christian" Carrie Prejean has no problem at all breaking those two by lying to the Miss California Beauty Pageant about her semi-nude photographs and by appearing in a dishonest, hateful NOM advertisement.
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Ray_Simard
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She did lie signing off on the the archaic and sexist "morals" clause, and that was wrong. That's ALL that was significantly wrong. Lying in response to questions the questioner has no right to ask as an alternative to confrontation is not wrong. We've all done it. Prejean is not very good at it; looks like she doesn't do that often. She should take lessons from Bill "Define sex" Clinton--oh, he lied under oath, right?
Get real. The opprobrium out here isn't about her lying on the contract. It's more than likely others of the girls have similar skeletons in their closets. That doesn't excuse Carrie, but it's something to think about.
Yes, aside from the morals clause, her tape is her own business. It is also questionable whether it's wrong even for a Christian, and that is only because she was unmarried. Considering the statistics on premarital chastity everywhere, and the casual acceptance of it, blasting her about it is applying a different, false standard by the bunch of Instant Christians everywhere suddenly declaring themselves qualified to judge her. A married Christian couple doing the same thing is doing nothing wrong. Perhaps God disapproves. He has not empowered TMZ to be his moral proxy. It's her business, and only hers, and God's. By the prevailing standards of our time, she is just fine, and that's as far as TMZ, and you, and I, have any right to take it.
The real sinner is the scumbag who leaked it, and the stunningly childish and amoral TMZ types who would dare print stills from it. How low can you go, just because you dislike someone and don't care for her moral orientation? Yet he gets almost no criticism at all.
Who said the following:
"Marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now for me, as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God is in the mix."
Not sure? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWtYdqbGNio
It's very short and succinct. Check it out. (It's not mine, BTW.)
Would someone please explain to me how this man, far more famous than Prejean and entrusted with so much of what is critical in our lives, who explicitly names his Christian faith as the foundation for belief, gets no bad ink about it. Double standard? Hypocrisy (not hers)? You damn well bet there is.
At least 50% plus one of the voting population of the State of California passed a proposition limiting marriage to heterosexual couples. You may disagree, but strangely, of the millions of Californians, Prejeam seems uniquely targeted. More hypocrisy.
Her photos are hardly more explicit than SI's Swimsuit Edition (earlier ones, anyway). Meanwhile, the entertainment press now excoriating her is just fine with other famous celebs/actresses flashing their stuff all over the place. More false standards?
Even if you decide the pictures and tape were not right, she has gotten herself right with God, and, as far as we know, has since lived as much according to her professions as anyone. By definition, she is no hypocrite.
Her blasters should shut up a moment and look inside themselves. Is it Prejean, herself, they don't like? Or is it she and others who believe and profess like her that they find so annoying--which is what we define as discrimination and bigotry?
If so, they are the really sinful liars, because they are lying to someone who has every right to an honest answer: themselves.
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Ray_Simard
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shirma3
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She is young, and was even younger when she posed. Sure she ticked folks off, stating her true beliefs. She is still entitled to what she believes. How hypocritical must she be?! Sure she made a mistake, posing simi-nude. Life happens!!!!
Thie Pageant question was loaded and unfair. posed in a Public Arena, (Contest). It's like asking, "Who do you like best Protestants, Catholics, or Jews. It is a highly explosive issue, on both sides. And unless all contestatnts had to answer a question of this nature, it was UNFAIR! Politics, and Religion don't mix!
Yes...a question based on Race, for the sake of Racial Profiling, would also be unfair.
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shirma3
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nkeg87
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i dont think this would have become an issue if it werent for her statements about gay marriage. Gotta watch who you piss off....
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nkeg87
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unclecharlie
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So, in essence, my respect for her fortitude and moral courage was misplaced. As St. Paul said, "Those who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted." That was certainly true of her. That being said, I know she is only human, but it sure makes her out to be a hypocrite, eh?
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unclecharlie
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RCS
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Normally, I could not care less what people do with their privates lives; it's their business. If people want to take nude photos of themselves or pose semi-nude for an advertisement, it's not any of my affair. Let them do it. People, even public people, are entitled to their own private lives.
I, also, think that criticism of beauty pageants is silly and ridiculous, so I have nothing against them. If a young woman wants to compete in a pageant, and other people want to enjoy watching her, more power to her. The pageants do not depreciate women at all, unless you're dim-witted enough to think that a woman being pretty and admired is depreciating. Furthermore, the winners usually get a life-ticket for a good career, and in Latin America, pageant titles even can be parlayed into political careers. Therefore, once again, I have nothing against beauty pageants and their contestants.
The case with Miss California USA is very different, however. When asked a serous question, in her answer, in her own inarticulate, stilted way, she tried to hide behind the phrase "No Offence" and, then, proceeded to state a position that advocated depriving a whole group of American citizens of their civil and human rights. It was no different than if she had said that she did not believe that woman and blacks should be allowed to vote or that Hispanics and whites should be allowed to marry each other, and, then, said it was okay because she was raised that way in her family and her country.
Now, she will have to answer more questions from the Miss California USA Beauty Pageant about her lying about her past semi-nude modeling photos and her involvement in the hateful and deceitful NOM advertisement that clearly meant to spread hatred and prejudice against gay Americans, and for which she had not obtained permission, as required by her contract, to be in. One wonders if she will be any better prepared to answer these questions than she was for the original pageant question.
It will now be up to the pageant officials. It remains to be seen if she will be partially vindicated in this latest matter by them, or if it will turn out that, in his own rude, ill-mannered, nasty way, Perez Hilton was right about her all the time.
Before this most recent news came out on the Christian right's latest sweetheart, I posted a wonderful parody of her on Current that I ran across on YouTube. It is very clever, and it truly does capture her inner essence and thoughts.
http://current.com/items/90019102_no-offence-but-you-deserve-to-be-killed-from-m...
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RCS
