Carrie Prejean
When former Miss California, Carrie Prejean abruptly settled her libel and defamation case, in which she cited religious persecution against Miss California pageant organizers amid rumors of a sex tape, my reaction was, “serves you right, you noxious twit.”
I don’t have an issue with conservative women or the conservative agenda per se, but rather the cake-and-eat-it too mentality that seems to plague the more famous or infamous of them.
So called “conservative women” ought not send video- taped masturbatory sessions featuring oral copulation of a foreign object with the same mouth that denounces same-sex marriages on a nationally televised beauty pageant. If the former is little more than a young woman who should have known better, and didn’t then the latter is, well, a young woman who should of known better, and didn’t.
She makes the point in her book, Still Standing: The Untold Story of My Fight Against Gossip, Hate and Political Attacks that she’s just another conservative woman who is a victim of liberal media bias and that she’s been “Palinized” by the same. Prejan’s position is that her rights to free speech have been violated as she has been surreptitiously undermined by the media, Donald Trump, the pageant organizers as every facet of her life has been scrutinized.
It may surprise my 10 remaining blog readers (down from my high of 12 readers) that I believe that her free-speech rights have in fact been compromised because she had the courage nee stupidity to express an opinion that today is held by a majority of Americans: that the rights of marriage should only apply to one man and one woman foolish enough to believe that they will emerge on the other side of the divorce statistic.
I kid, I kid. Prejean expressed an opinion and she’s been punished for it.
The reason I find conservative ideology so terrifying is because of its want to restrict other freedoms.
At almost 40 years old, I would not have an abortion; I object to it for reasons that are part political and part spiritual. However, I acknowledge that I couldn’t possibly know every circumstance where abortion might be viable and that it’s arrogant to think that I or my government can legislate against something that we’re not meant to have the answers to.
Starbucks coffee to any conservative friend who can provide a biblical and rhetoric-free explanation on how the same conservative agenda that promotes Pro-Life can also be in favor of the Death Penalty.
Where same-sex marriage is concerned, again, it isn’t a choice I would make for myself, but I’m not arrogant enough to think that I am the authority on what people should be “allowed” to do with one another behind closed doors. If you believe the biblical perspective that homosexuality is an abomination against God, I’ve yet to find the scripture that says that Anne Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and their like- minded ilk are empowered to make those decisions for the rest of us.
But if I have the right to discuss my beliefs then, so should Carrie Prejean, so should we all.
What I ask myself as a writer and as a liberal is this: does the fact that her opinion is repugnant to me give me the right to be especially pejorative? Did her answer during the Miss USA pageant which clearly came from her heart, warrant the backlash that she has since endured? Or have her actions since (semi-nude modeling shots, a sexting video and behavior that have ran the gamut from petulant and unprofessional to just plain bizarre) set a course apart from her pageant answer? How, can she claim the “conservative woman” title with so much of her behavior anything but?
It would be like me affirming my own political correctness, or second virginity or republican leanings.
On the subject of free-speech, her rights have clearly and absolutely been compromised and she’s owed a collective apology for that.
She owes us an apology too, for being less, much less the woman she portends to be.
By my math? We’re even.
Public voicing of an opinion in a forum such as a pageant will engage others in responding. Viewers have seen the speaker nearly naked on stage. The speaker has our attention. The speaker should choose words carefully and suck it up when there is backlash.Fame is a choice. If one wants not to be noticed, one should stay home and watch pageants on tv.
i’m trying to be understanding with my assumptions about her…c.p. that is. however, she just keeps that foot so nicely in her own mouth. no “liberal” media puts it there for her. and that larry king performance… i swear she has a personality disorder.
Darlin, please help us readers find where to turn off the auto play of your sound on your blog here. There is a great point about it here and it distracts from landing and enjoying your blog.
Your question to conservatives works in reverse too: How can liberals say it’s ok to kill an innocent baby and not ok to kill a vicious serial murderer? And what does her appearing nude have to do with any discussion of her right to express herself? She only expressed the exact same idea that Barack Obama expressed as a candidate, the hypocrisy on the part of the Left on this is just staggering, even by Leftist standards.