I Prefer Chocolate... I Think

"We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite. And you know what, I think 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." (FOX News)

This is the tepid and tentative endorsement of traditional marriage that, on the one hand, cost Carrie Prejean (Miss California USA and Miss USA finalist) the Miss USA crown, and that on the other hand has caused her to be lionized in the conservative press... neither of which makes any sense, based on what she actually said. Presidential candidate Barack Obama said essentially the same thing months ago.

This throws some light on the whole gay agenda and on politics in general here in the U.S..

Carrie Prejean will be known henceforth in the public mind as "the girl who would have been Miss USA", but for the presence of a flaming gay activist judge, and the girl who actually won the competition (does anyone know her name?) will be forever known as "the girl who beat Carrie Prejean".

The gay judge, Perez Hilton, got his thong in a twist because he wanted to hear Miss Prejean say, "Golly, I think chocolate and vanilla are both just swell..." and she had the audacity to say "I think... I prefer chocolate. No offense to vanilla people.".

As Mark Shea has observed time and again, where the gay agenda is concerned "Tolerance Is Not Enough! You Must Approve!". The message (and this episode is only its latest incarnation) is very clear: "You want to make it in the entertainment business? Then..." - I was going to say, "learn to keep your mouth shut", but the real lesson is - "learn to parrot the opinions we give you - with enthusiasm - or else".

That's nothing new, it's just acquired the brashness that is the hallmak of a bully who has grown accustomed to success. Their fear campaign has worked, in large measure. "Agree with us, publicly, if you want to work. Disagree and you will be passed over". It used to be that aspiring entertainers were passed over in private meetings... now they are passed over publicly, clapped in irons and pelted with fruit. Pelted by fruits, you might say. What's troubling is that the same thing is happening in corporate offices and boardrooms. Learn to say the right thing, if you value your job.

But then, in the hinterlands of the right, you have Fox News throwing Miss Prejean a virtual ticker tape parade, treating her as if she had said, "Mr. Perez Hilton, tear down this wall!!!", ignoring the fact that her answer was in fact very meekly pro-marriage, and lacked any moral conviction, that she took pains to emphasize that this was just her opinion... that she is, in regard to gay marriage, "personally opposed, but..."

I know she's young, and that she's no philosopher, and that she was on the spot and under a great deal of pressure, and I suppose I should be happy she was able to stammer her way through any kind of half-hearted endorsement of real marriage at all... but it's not as if she didn't know the question might come up. The contestants do see them in advance (though they don't know which one they may be asked).

I'm appalled that she was set up, basically, by a gossip Queen who (wrapping himself in the PFLAG) was determined to deny the Miss USA title to anyone not solidly toeing the line of the gay agenda, but I'm also appalled at the reaction to her speech at both ends of the political spectrum.

Comments

[Sleeping Beastly]

You're right that there's no reason to lionize her for her response. She's kind of a poor mascot for traditional values in any case; she was, after all, competing in a contest that objectifies women.

In a way, I thought the winning contestant's question was more interesting.

[Johannah]

With all due respect Mr. Jones, I'm pretty surprised at your response here.

On the one hand, I would have to say I heartily agree with your view on the "lionizing" aspect of the conservative response -- it adds an unnerving tinge of absurdity to the situation.

On the other hand, I find some of what you say here to be incredibly judgmental and pretty unkind.

Speaking from experience, those of us who don't have any kind of platform with which to speak from are usually just drowned-out by the "progressive" voice. But this Miss California had the stage, and even if she wasn't very eloquent or very forceful, she said what she thought, probably knowing she would lose the competition she must have put a great deal of effort into. Usually I wouldn't be so eager to defend something I find so inane as the Miss USA pageant, but as another young woman bombarded with similar situations, I admire her gumption.

Let God judge whether or not she gave it her best. We all fall short. (And it could just be that God had another purpose altogether for this situation -- the press she's gotten spreads the word of the obviously bias judging -- EVEN as she made it clear this was her personal opinion.)