Miss California: God was testing me Contestant loses pageant

[Lewis]

All I got to say about her is, You Go Girl. :yes :D :amen :angel3 :yes :nod

At Sunday night's Miss USA pageant, contestant Carrie Prejean was asked the one question she dreaded most, "Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage; do you think every state should follow suit?"
Hilton's comments have drawn sharp reaction, even from those who might also disagree with Prejean's answer.

"I am an openly gay man and a supporter of same sex marriage and I wish Perez Hilton would shut up," writes syndicated talk show host Charles Karel Bouley in a column on Huffington Post. "This is a person who is famous for smearing snarky and crude things over celebrity photos and following Brittney's every move. He lives for controversy and is only famous for it."

Of the controversy on pageant night, Bouley writes, "It's a question with no right answer for a pageant contestant and one that also insults every person out there that is gay or lesbian – not her answer, the question."

Prejean, who ultimately finished as top runner-up in the contest, losing the crown to Miss North Carolina Kristen Dalton, admits she was upset by Hilton's rant, but also claims she has received an outpouring of support.

"I've gotten over 500 facebook friend requests, hundreds of messages from people I don't know, saying how proud of me they are that I stood my ground," she said. "That made me the real winner of the night."

Winner Kristen Dalton's title, London's Daily Mail reports, comes with a year's use of a New York apartment, a public relations team, a two-year scholarship
at the New York Film Academy and an undisclosed salary. Dalton will also compete in the Miss Universe pageant in August.

If, for any reason, Dalton should be unable to perform her duties as Miss USA, Prejean would be the first in line to fulfill the role ambassador-like responsibilities of the pageant's winner.

Prejean, already crowned Miss California, was considered a front-runner in the Miss USA contest, but she knew her answer to that one question might not sit well with the panel, especially the inquiring judge, openly homosexual celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton, who calls himself "the queen of all media."

"Out of all the topics I studied up on, I dreaded that one; I prayed I would not be asked about gay marriage," Prejean told the Fox News Channel's Courtney Friel in an exclusive interview. "If I had any other question, I know I would have won."

Her answer, which suddenly has made her the center of both praise and scorn, included the words, "In my country, in my family, I think that 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 and that's how I think it should be – between a man and a woman."

Video of the question and Prejean's full answer can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XMvviFbkf0

In her interview with Friel, Prejean explained that, ultimately, the greatest judge of her character was not the one who asked her the question, but the one who doesn't need a TV camera to watch her answer.

"This happened for a reason. By having to answer that question in front of a national audience, God was testing my character and faith," Prejean said. "I'm glad I stayed true to myself."

On NBC's "Today" this morning, Prejean, a student at San Diego Christian College, elaborated:

"I knew at that moment after I answered the question, I knew, I was not going to win because of my answer, because I had spoken from my heart, from my beliefs and for my God," she said. "I wouldn't have answered it differently. The way I answered may have been offensive. With that question specifically, it's not about being politically correct. For me it was being biblically correct."

In the Fox News interview, Prejean added, "I have no regrets about answering honestly. [Perez Hilton] asked me for my opinion and I gave it to him. I have nothing against gay people, and I didn't mean to offend anyone in my answer."

Hilton, however, appeared highly offended in a YouTube video he made shortly after the contest's conclusion, calling her a "dumb b-----" and claiming she had given "the worst answer in pageant history."

In a follow-up interview on MSNBC, Hilton was asked if he had apologized for the comment, but instead added to it.

"I don't apologize," Hilton said on air. "Over the course of the past 24 hours, the more I've thought about it, the more – you know what? – No, I'm going to stand by what I said just like she's standing by what she said. And I called her the 'b' word, and hey, I was thinking the 'c' word."

Hilton also appeared on NBC's "Today," explaining that he demands a Miss USA winner be "politically savvy," and that even though Prejean is a Christian, he doesn't want her "talking about Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, because that's offensive."

An audio clip of Hilton's comments can be heard below:

Hilton's comments have drawn sharp reaction, even from those who might also disagree with Prejean's answer.

"I am an openly gay man and a supporter of same sex marriage and I wish Perez Hilton would shut up," writes syndicated talk show host Charles Karel Bouley in a column on Huffington Post. "This is a person who is famous for smearing snarky and crude things over celebrity photos and following Brittney's every move. He lives for controversy and is only famous for it."

Of the controversy on pageant night, Bouley writes, "It's a question with no right answer for a pageant contestant and one that also insults every person out there that is gay or lesbian – not her answer, the question."

Prejean, who ultimately finished as top runner-up in the contest, losing the crown to Miss North Carolina Kristen Dalton, admits she was upset by Hilton's rant, but also claims she has received an outpouring of support.

"I've gotten over 500 facebook friend requests, hundreds of messages from people I don't know, saying how proud of me they are that I stood my ground," she said. "That made me the real winner of the night."

Winner Kristen Dalton's title, London's Daily Mail reports, comes with a year's use of a New York apartment, a public relations team, a two-year scholarship
at the New York Film Academy and an undisclosed salary. Dalton will also compete in the Miss Universe pageant in August.

If, for any reason, Dalton should be unable to perform her duties as Miss USA, Prejean would be the first in line to fulfill the role ambassador-like responsibilities of the pageant's winner.

 

[Blazin Bones]

Caroline showed me a YouTube video about this gal, and yeah, she does have something special about her.

 

[Lewis]

This is a girl who stood up for God, and desired God rather than man's grabage, fame and money, and she is to be applauded And as you can see below, my band is playing and singing her a song.

 

[destiny]

...But she never even mentioned God when she was answering the question on gay marriage. Here is something a pastor wrote about it all...

I feel compelled to share my thoughts regarding the hullabaloo presently going on about Miss California and the Miss USA beauty pageant. Desperate to have their concerns about traditional marriage espoused in a public forum, evangelical Christianity, rapidly becoming marginalized in our society’s mainstream, is groping for almost anyone to give a voice for the traditional institution of marriage, one I fully endorse (marriage should be a covenant commitment between a man and a women for life).

The irony of this whole business is that here was a scantily clad womanâ€â€this of course can provoke lust in men (Matthew 5:27-29)â€â€who was asked about marriage by a judge who supposedly isn’t even attracted to women. She gives the politically incorrect answer and in doing so, alienated the politically correct judges, and forfeited possible victory in the beauty pageant. By giving a correct answer to a loaded question about marriage, and by doing so without hardly any clothes on, Miss Prejean has now become the cause célèbre amongst conservatives and evangelicals for her affirmation of biblically correct marriage.

Admittedly, I at first joined the admiration society of the Miss USA contestant for boldly standing up for her beliefs in a hostile and prejudiced environment, until I realized my disconnect, until I began to think biblically about the whole matter, and recall the scriptural passages condemning nakedness. Instinctively, Adam and Eve covered themselves after sinning (Genesis 3:7). Correspondingly, they became conscious of their sin and their nakedness (By the way God covered Adam and Eve too, Genesis 3:21.). I think of Noah’s two sons who saw his nakedness (Genesis 9:18 ff.). I think of the High Priest who was commanded not to ascend the altar lest “his nakedness†be exposed (Exodus 20:26). In other words, in reverence to God the High Priest’s leg was not even to be exposed. I think of the Leviticus passages that command, “thou shalt not expose the nakedness thereof . . .†(Leviticus 18).†And women are to dress modestly that their prayers be not hindered (1 Timothy 2:8-9).

The parade of naked or semi-clothed bodies in our culture indicates our society’s desensitization to, if not outright denial, of sin (Remember, when Adam and Eve first discovered they were sinners, they instinctively covered themselves.). Years ago in the middle of the previous century, I had a friend who was a missionary amongst the Stone Age people of the territory then known as New Guinea. On one of his furloughs in the states, he remarked to me one day that all the whileâ€â€for reason of the Gospel’s penetration into their heartsâ€â€the natives were putting clothes on, we in so-called “Christian America†seemed to be taking them off!

I recognize that I am not the last word on the subject. I grew up on the sandy summer beaches of Lake Michigan, and was on the high school swim team. During my teen age and young adult years in the 60s, I witnessed the girls’ swimsuits become skimpier and skimpier. I recognize God uses sinners. But I am aware that we sinners can also attempt to use God. I have no pretension of being a self-righteous prude. I have had, as with most all other men, a problem with lust, something Jesus pointedly warned about. So what really disturbs me as a pastor is observing how easily we Christians accommodate our values to the culture’s, to the system called the world, and seemingly without any tinge of conscience. As Christians, we are to use but not abuse the world, and God will be the judge of whether we were users or abusers, won’t He?

I can only go by the Word, the Holy Scriptures. It seems to me that one aspect of worldliness involves “the lusts of the flesh†(1 John 2:16). Furthermore, the Bible says, “But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regards to its lusts†(Romans 13:14). After their conversion, Paul reminds the Ephesians that, “Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest†(Ephesians 2:3). And the Apostle Peter pleaded, “Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts, which wage war against the soul†(1 Peter 2:11).

The prevalence of nudity and semi-nudity in our culture may help explainâ€â€there is no excuse for terrorismâ€â€why fundamentalist Muslims, whose women dress in burkhas (i.e., loose garments with veiled holes for the eyes), detest the west (See http://www.frbaptist.org/bin/view/Ptp/P ... 2002-01-14).

This whole beauty pageant controversy provides a sad commentary on both the state of the culture and to some extent, the values prevalent amongst Christians today. We have been, and are being, desensitized to nudity. Miss California may be the newest heroine amongst a desperate conservative sub-culture that sees our society sinking into a moral abyss, but this whole business ought to remind Christians of how the prevalence of human nakedness indicates our having been removed from God’s righteousness.

Respectfully,

Pastor Larry DeBruyn

 

[Lewis]

Ok, I will say she should have had more clothes on as a Christian, but she stood up for God still. Many men in suits won't even do that, addressing that subject in public. And as her walk with God goes on, the Holy Ghost will dress her I'm sure. She still has a lot to learn she is still young. I still clap for her,she did not give a politically correct answer, she gave the only true answer straight from God. It seems like some people always find some fault when people do the right thing, I am not talking about you destiny, I would never do that. I am talking about the people who do that, Christians aren't perfect, and never will be,in the flesh.

 

[destiny]

Lewis.. I think she stood up for something she's been taught to value at home, but I didn't hear her mention God or Jesus Christ. She said this..

“And you know what, in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman,†she continued. “No offense to anybody out there, but that’s how I was raised and that’s how I think it should be between a man and a woman. Thank you very much.â€Â

A heathen would more than likely say the same if that's the way they were raised.

She should be commended for standing up for what she sees as right, but not as a representative of Jesus.

 

[Aero_Hudson]

Personally, I don't think that a question like that has any business in that type of setting. I agree that it is a politically charged question that would have spun negative either way she would have answered it. No place for it.

 

[Lewis]

In her interview with Friel, Prejean explained that, ultimately, the greatest judge of her character was not the one who asked her the question, but the one who doesn't need a TV camera to watch her answer.

"This happened for a reason. By having to answer that question in front of a national audience, God was testing my character and faith," Prejean said. "I'm glad I stayed true to myself."

On NBC's "Today" this morning, Prejean, a student at San Diego Christian College, elaborated:

This is out of her mouth, so that should answer it, plus, she is in a Christian collage.It is all in that article above.

 

[animal]

Personally, I don't think that a question like that has any business in that type of setting. I agree that it is a politically charged question that would have spun negative either way she would have answered it. No place for it.

2nd.

 

[lovely]

I still think it may have been a set up.