I don’t want to get into tabloid – I mean, real tabloids, and not just kidding the Jim’s – posting, but come on! Tell me, when all these right-wing political organizations came out in support of her, you know, the Christian ones, don’t you think that it has given her credence a bit?
She has said some pretty awful things, but saying that the bible allows her to objectify her body with medical enhancements, etc… makes me wonder how many other people feel this way. Is it time to give up on the American church and ask for missionaries? You can read her interview in Christianity Today.
November 13th, 2009 3:24 am
She wrote a book? Seriously?
A book? Does it use actual words?
Will this spoiled brat come suing me if I speculate that she, like her idol Sarah Palin, used a ghost writer to handle things like the English language?
November 13th, 2009 6:29 pm
Wickle, read what I could online of Still Standing, Prejean is facinating in a pathological sort of way. Prejean’s ghost writer isn’t very good.
Palin’s has Lynn Vincent (World Magazine) who is an excellent writer.
As for Prejean – the wweeligious wight has been wweally wweally quiet;’^)
November 13th, 2009 8:17 pm
It’s bigoted comments like Wickle’s that put me in her corner. Ya see, it’s politically correct to smear some people, but not others. It’s really no different than the bullying that goes on in schools across the country. And I’ve never been scared of a bully, so I’ll stick up for those being picked on.
November 13th, 2009 9:13 pm
I think that her statement at the pageant was fine, but her continued use of Christianity to hide behind is something else. I don’t see it as bigoted or bullying to say that her ‘mistakes’ are at the expense of sincere believers.
November 13th, 2009 9:12 pm
Oh, please, Jordan. Bigoted? A brief reality check …
This woman is a beauty pageant runner-up who whined that she was being picked on, and so became a darling of the family-values crowd, which is supposed to be advocating modesty. Then when her bared-breast pictures came out, she claimed that she didn’t know they were being taken and made her own version of Hillary Clinton’s “right-wing conspiracy” comment.
Now her video has been revealed, and she’s again claiming to be picked on. Never mind that she’s actually been the cause of everything that’s happened to her. She tried to leverage losing a beauty pageant into a bid for family spokesperson. It turns out that she’s totally unqualified for the job.
As for calling her a spoiled brat … did you see her performance on “Larry King Live”? When asked a question she didn’t like, she accused him of being “inappropriate,” took off her mic, and sat there refusing to answer questions. Just like a spoiled brat.
I’m helping to organize Bully Free NH. Bullies are people who pick on weaker kids. Pointing out Prejean’s hypocrisy, and that of the groups on the Right that prop her up, is nothing of the kind.
November 14th, 2009 3:44 pm
You are right Wickle, bullies choose their victims who are weak, and easy to pick on. I would say Prejean is weak right now, and an easy target. So you’re saying it’s okay to bully unintelligent, immature people who don’t have the same political views as you? Moreover, that it’s appropriate for 75 year old men to probe into the sex lives of young women?
I don’t see Prejean any different than all other Christian sinners. How is she different from Mary, who anointed Jesus’ feet with oil?
November 14th, 2009 5:44 pm
For one thing, Mary didn’t try to leverage herself into a whole bunch of paid public appearances.
Frankly, people who put themselves on stage as advocates invite attention. That’s how it works. Moreover, Prejean has consistently LIED about herself. She claims that she didn’t know what pictures were being taken. She then lied about when the video was made.
I don’t care what happened at the pageant. After coming in second, though, she has tried to make that into her golden egg, claiming to be persecuted at every turn. She’s not.
More than this, though, the Christian community should be smarter than propping up women whose career choice is having pictures taken in skimpy clothing as advocates for family values. That is the greater wrong, really. Why she’s inappropriate for the job is really secondary. If that’s all you’re seeing here, it’s because you haven’t been in on all of the discussion.
Your point is good, though, that she is no different from any other Christian, in that she needs to repent and can be forgiven. Absolutely. But for her public image to be intact, she’s going to have to stop trying to prop herself up and spin her conduct while she’s at it.
November 15th, 2009 3:55 am
She is amazing in how she has spun this and how so many Christian and other social conservatives have taken up her defense. Unfortunately this is just one more instance of the Christian Right trying to invent “persecution” to rake in the bucks. Good on you Wickle.
November 15th, 2009 4:46 pm
You’re right Padre Steve, I see the error in my ways. I was too slow to judge. The church would be righteous to have turned its back on her when she comes to it for guidance in her time of need. She is obviously unworthy…
November 15th, 2009 5:14 pm
I am not suggesting that the church turn its back on Miss Prejean far from it. What I am saying is that there are those on the Religious Right using her just as she exploited her fame while lying about almost everything. If she was not a Christian would they be defending her or promoting her cause? I think not. She obviously needs help and the Church is the right place to go for it, but the reconciliation of a penitent does not require defending their past actions in the media.
November 15th, 2009 5:22 pm
Further, she has admitted that while she did everything wrong before she was 18, she is just fine with everything now. Granted, we learn every day that it wasn’t just one tape at 17, but many of them recently. What she is doing is using Christianity as a defense against her critics. This is my problem. Does she need Christ? Yes, everyone of us does. But, should we use Christianity as a defense against our wrongs? Should be do what we want to, and claim that people are attacks us simply because we are Christian?
November 23rd, 2009 8:19 pm
Ms. Prejean made her choices. Now groups she affiliated her momentary celebrity have made theirs.
Maggie Gallagher of NOM has put a column up at Townhall distancing themselves.