April 22, 2009
Personal note:
Most of us have been in situations where we know that we are grossly outnumbered
in a controversy where Truth needs to be spoken and there seemingly is no
one else but you or me.
It would appear that those kind of situations are becoming more available.
By God's grace, we will step into them as Miss California on Sunday night.
Seeing and/or hearing how Miss California in the Miss USA pageant spoke against
same sex marriages in the pageant on Sunday night was one such example.
Carrie Prejean (Miss California) was amazing in the simplicity and sincerity
of her answer "I believe that a marriage should be between a man and
a woman. No offense to anybody there. But that's how I was raised and that's
how I think it should be. ...."
And it cost her the title of Miss USA.
[I shared my commentary yesterday.]
http://americandecency.org/main.php?f=updates_new/2009/April/04.21.09
I share with you a few other commentaries in regard to this unthinkable situation
- that the time-honored standard of Biblical marriage between a man and a
woman is out of favor???
From Gary Bauer, Campaign for Working Families:
Exchanging One Crown For Another
If there is a Christian out there who thinks men and women of faith are not
being tolerant enough, look at what just happened to Carrie Prejean at the
Miss America contest this weekend. Prejean, Miss California, was asked by
Perez Hilton, one of the Miss America contest judges, about her views on same-sex
“marriage.”
Prejean answered, “I believe that a marriage should be between a man
and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that’s how I was raised.”
Hilton, by the way, is well-known homosexual blogger, who reportedly called
Prejean a “dumb b---h with half a brain” and said that he would
have “stormed onto the stage and ripped off her tiara if she had won.”
Luckily for her, she was first runner-up.
According to various reports, there were boos from the audience after Prejean’s
statement, shouting matches in the lobby and dueling press releases regarding
her remarks. Keith Lewis, who runs the Miss California competition, issued
a statement, which read, “As co-director of the Miss California USA,
I am personally saddened and hurt that Miss California believes marriage rights
belong only to a man and a woman. …religious beliefs have no [place]
in the Miss California family.”
Shanna Moakler, also a co-director of Miss California, responded on Twitter
by writing, “This is why we have judges at Miss USA, so we find the
girl to rep us ALL.” That would seem to indicate that Prejean –
a heavy favorite at the start of the pageant – lost precisely because
of her religious beliefs. In fact, Perez Hilton admitted as much in an interview
with Larry King.
For her part, Prejean told Fox News, “This happened for a reason. By
having to answer that question in front of a national audience, God was testing
my character and faith. I’m glad I stayed true to myself.” Good
for her! The overwhelming majority of the American people are with her, and
she has every right to express her opinion.
But it should be a wake-up call to men and women of faith and everyone who
cherishes freedom of speech and religious liberty. The backlash to Prejean’s
commonsense comments demonstrates the naked intolerance of the militant homosexual
movement. This is a movement that will not be satisfied until it has shoved
all expressions of faith into the closet it has just burst out of. And if
it gets its way in Congress, comments like Prejean’s may someday be
considered a “hate crime.”
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Tony Perkins, President of Family Research Council:
Miss California Sets Her Eyes on the Real Prize
At the Miss USA pageant, Carrie Prejean may have lost the crown but she won
plenty of respect. Miss California, who was the odds-on favorite to capture
this year's title, faced her biggest test this past weekend--answering a question
from the judges about same-sex "marriage." To Fox News, the first
runner-up said yesterday, "Out of all the topics I studied up on, I dreaded
that one... If I had any other question, I know I would have won," she
said.
Perez Hilton, an open homosexual who served as a pageant judge, pressed Prejean,
asking if every state should legalize homosexual marriage. After a brief pause,
Miss California responded in the same way that more than four million of her
state's voters did during last November's election. "...I believe that
a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody there,
but that's how I was raised and that's how I think it should be..."
After the contest, in which Prejean finished second, Hilton showed his "tolerance"
by saying (in the few comments fit to print) that had Miss California won,
"I would have gone up on stage... and snatched the tiara off her head..."
Later, he took another swipe saying, "Miss USA should represent everyone.
Her answer alienated millions of gay and lesbian[s]..." As Miss USA,
Carrie would have represented mainstream Americans (including Californians)
who have voted to ban counterfeit marriage in every state where the question
has been put to the people.
Even though Carrie believes her answer "did cost me my crown,"
she told Access Hollywood, "I wouldn't have had it any other way... I
see the audience would've wanted me to be more politically correct. But I
was raised... that you can never compromise your beliefs and opinions for
anything."
For the rest of us who fight this demonization every day, it's a different
venue but the same old liberal strategy: intimidate everyday Americans into
silence. What we witnessed on the Miss USA stage (the Left can speak; conservatives
can't,) is the same mentality that drives the debate over "hate crimes,"
ENDA, and marriage. People are entitled to their opinion only if it's shared
by the radical Left. As we speak, Congress is planning a mark-up on the first
"hate crimes" bill of the new session, H.R. 1913, which would make
it very costly for anyone to speak the truth about homosexuality in public
or in the pulpit. Contact your representatives today and urge them to join
the majority who believe in free speech for all.
Additional Resources
Fox News: Exclusive: Carrie Prejean Says 'God Was Testing My Faith' With Gay
Marriage Question
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,517228,00.html
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