Religious Hypocrisy and Gay Marriage

For those of you who haven't been following the recent Miss America Pageant scandal, things are starting to get interesting. It all started when celebrity judge and gay rights blogger Perez Hilton asked Miss California a loaded question during the interview portion of the competition. "What are your views on gay marriage?" he asked. She replied, "well I think it's great that we live in a country where everyone is free to choose. But you know, no offense to anyone but I think that marriage should be between a man and a woman. That's how I was raised and that's what I believe."

The reaction was immediate. Some liberal gay rights supporters immediately denounced her as a bigot and other b words that aren't worth mentioning but you know what they are. Why? Because she didn't give the politically correct answer that Hilton and all the other judges were looking for. I'm sorry but any so called competiton where questions are asked and a honest answer isn't expected or wanted isn't worth the time of day in the first place. I mean what was Carrie supposed to do? She didn't ge the normal is world peace possible bs that pageants normally throw out there to contestants. Instead Hilton either knowingly or unknowingly made her the next battle cry of the culture wars that is tearing America apart at the seams. Conservatives in the audience applauded her response while liberals sat and fumed. As an aside, for Hilton and his cronies to decry her honest answer as her being a dumb bitch only furthers misogny and the cultural dismissal of women who are not submissive and subservient to current cultural norms. Hilton apologized the next day for his language only to later retract the apology and say that he considered calling her something even worse. Real classy Hilton, way to demonstrate your tolerance for other opinions. I hope you are not the poster child for the gay rights movement because if so you just set everyone back.

So Carrie became the runner up to some another woman wearing too much makeup because she was bold enough to speak her mind. I completely believe her when she said "no offense" People need to realize that gay marriage is a devisive issue that will take time for people to come to a consensus on. But Carrie's words, demeanor, and attitued are a far cry from hatred or intolerance. As a matter of fact, she shares the same religious beliefs that I do. As I said in an earlier post i just happen to support gay marriage because I believe that people have a right to self determination in such private matters, (and no, abortion does not fall under my definition of a private matter). I will never attempt to force my beliefs upon others and I am a full supporter of tolerance. However I applaud Carrie for her bravery in bringing honesty to pageant that is all fake and misogynistic anyway. The idea that women are only good for walking around in bikinis and and answering stupid scripted hypothetical questions is simply mind boggling.

Well that should have been the end of story but unfortunately things always take a turn for the worst. Soon after the pageant ended accusations came out that Carrie had recieved plastic surgery on her breasts. They turned out to be true but it is so common in America today that no one really cares. Then topless photos from modeling shoots that Carrie had recently done showed up on the web. Some people contended that these photos were a breach of her contract and that she should be stripped of the Miss California crown. But it gets much better. Instead of defending her right to the title or simply saying nothing at all, Carrie is actually using this completely unrelated forum to continue to talk about marriage! Carrie accused her critics of using this slander as an opportunity to silence her on the marriage issue. I concede that probably most of the reason why all of this is happening is because of her politically incorrect answer to Hilton's question. However my problem is with what she said to the reporter next, "From this day forward I promise I will use my naked breasts for good. I intend to fight back with the two greatest weapons I have: my naked boobies." SHe later went on so say that she would be both "tireless and topless" in her efforts to fight civil unions.
source:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/miss-usa-vows-to-use-her_b_202163.html

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't she say "no offense" How did a simple and unexpected pageant question turn into yet another crusade against homosexuality? And better still, how is she planning on fighting immorality with immorality? That's like me tryign to fight a forest fire with gasoline, it makes no sense whatsoever. Now to be fair, I'm not saying that to speak out on moral issues of the conscience that one has to be perfect.The bible clearly states in Romans that ALL have sinned. I know that I'm no perfect yet I speak up when I feel things aren't right. Its the entire purpose of the blog you are crrently reading. Yet what Carrie is doing is different. She is actively sinning to combat another person's percieved sin, and smiling while doing it! This is wrong on many levels. It makes her a huge hypocrite.
For her to stand her and say that it's wrong for two people who love each other to be together yet ok for her to expose her God given private sexuality for public consumption is a double standard. If we accept the bible as truth then we have to accept all of it, not just the parts we like. Furthermore this once again reinforces the incredibly damaging and common notion that a woman's sole purpose is to sastify a man's sexual appetite.

Forget the moral aspect for a minute, from a common sense standpoint this approach has an approximate score of zero. Who is she trying to reach with these so called "weapons". The men that see this are going to exactly be paying attention to what she has to say. Their eyes and focus will naturally be on everything but her face. And the women won't care, heck they should all be ashamed. The only women that might be interested in such a sight probably hate Carrie's guts anyways for her views on gay marriage. When she answered the question and nothing more, everything was ok. But in a matter of weeks she has become the very bigot that Perez Hilton accused her of being in the first place. And the absolute best part is that America's supposed conscience is totally going along with all this. I have yet to hear one word of dissent from Republican Christians, people who act like they are the only ones in America who are going to heaven. Are they ok with this? I don't want this woman representing herself like this. It's demeaning and quite frankly it makes her look like an absolute moron. But more importantly I don't want her representing Christian's like this. It makes all of us look like idiots and morons too. I am not a moron.

Are Republicans so desparate to stem the tide of Gay marriage that they are willing to sell their souls to do it? I think we should all be more focused on the fact that America has one of the highest domestic abuse rates of any industrialized country in the world. We wag our finger at the Taliban for trhowing acid on women in schools and then we come home from work and beat the hell out of our women when they "get outta line". Hypocrisy. We spend all this time talking about how gay marriage is the end of the traditional family yet we encourage our males to be pimps and players and to dodge their fatherly duties after they have knocked up yet another female. We watch shows like Flavor of Love about a guy who already has kids with multiple women who he doesn't support, We watch him live in a house with supposedly "real" women and try to get married, knowing full well their relationship won't last more than a year. I personally want to disown Flavor and everybody like him. They make me ashamed to call myself a Black man. Yet we promote this as an image of ouselves through the mass media! We ignore drugs, pornogrhaphy, infidelity and everything else, just so we can worry about what Gay couples are doing. I say enough! End the hypocrisy now.