Carrie Prejean carries on
Here’s an update on the Carrie Prejean saga that just continues to gain momentum.
In a previous blog posting I told how Prejean (pictured at right), Miss California USA had been ridiculed by a pageant judge for her answer during the Miss USA Pageant on Sunday. Pageant judge Perez Hilton asked Prejean if she thought other states should follow Vermont’s example and legalize same-sex marriage. In her answer Prejean stated that she believed that marriage should be between a man and a woman. Hilton, apparently outraged, taped a video rant in which he called the contestant a “dumb b—-.”
The Internet is still abuzz about the incident and subsequent Hilton and Prejean interviews though it all happened several days ago.
In one e-mail, I learned that Prejean is to appear at the 40th Annual Gospel Music Association Dove Awards Show tonight on the Gospel Music Channel.
The issue regarding Prejean, who didn’t win the Miss USA title, has been the subject of much debate, judging from other e-letters and news releases. See for your self:
Brent Childers, executive director for Faith In America, wrote an open letter to Prejean in which he cited his conversation with Mildred Loving, a white woman who se marriage to a black man was deemed against the law in 1966 by the Virginia Supreme Court. The ruling was overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967. Childers said he wanted to believe Prejean meant no offense by her comments, but “just imagaine if the question had been about Mildred Loving’s marriage to her husand Richard?’
“I asked Mildred what she thought about those people who had used their Bible to justify prejudice against her. She said it obviously hurt her but that the pain didn’t penetrate deeply because she knew in her heart that God doesn’t want us to use religious teaching to look down upon others as inferior, unworthy or undeserving.”
Meanwhile, Randy Thomasson, president of SaveCalifornia.com and SaveAmerica.com, said “The bad guy here is homosexual activist Perez Hilton, who never should have been allowed to be a judge.Carrie Prejean was unfairly discriminated agaist and viciously punished just because she knows and believes that marriage is reserved for a man and a woman.”
SaveCalifornia.com describes itself as a pro-family organization “dedicated to defending and representing the values of parents, grandparents, and concerned citizens who believe in family, faith, and freedom.”
The mission of Faith In America, according to its Web site, is the emancipation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from bigotry disguised as religious truth.
Carla Hinton
Religion Editor
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