Let me weigh in on the Mrs. California debate, from yesterday’s Catholic Online.
Free Speech for Me but not for Thee? Miss California defends true marriage
“As the verbal assault against Carrie Prejean has continued, her integrity and character have continued to shine. Miss California is a Christian. She is a student at San Diego Christian College, an evangelical Protestant school. The College is very proud of her, covering her appearance and 1st runner up victory on their website. They should be proud. She answered with the kind of integrity and honestly which speaks of what Pope Benedict XVI has called a “moral coherence”. She was unafraid of defending true marriage in the face of an obviously loaded question from a self avowed homosexual activist with an agenda beyond the beauty contest, knowing that it may cost her a victory.
Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr. told NBC’s “Today,” that Miss USA contestants need to be “politically savvy.” Questioned about the Christian faith of Carrie Prejean he showed how little tolerance he has for people with differing worldviews saying he did not want her “talking about Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, because that’s offensive.”
As the verbal assault against Carrie has continued, her integrity and character have continued to shine. During that MSNBC interview she was asked how she would respond to the continuing invective from her adversary and said “I can only say that I will be praying for him… I believe marriage should be between a man and a woman. And he asked me my opinion, and I gave it to him.”
One can draw many conclusions based on this little example of where the current American culture has found itself. It appears to me that a double standard has been established. When the Pledge of Allegiance of the United States proclaims “One Nation, Under God” and the status quo seems to be embracing Mr. Lavandeira’s view that a person who publicly acknowledges Jesus Christ and attests to having faith is somehow “offensive”, something is amiss. A coin cannot be both heads and tails, you either have it one way or the other. America as become a very different place from the times of our founding fathers, in fact, it has become a very different country from the time of my own father! I wish I could say that was a good thing. Don’t take my word for it either, look outside your window, turn on the news, and read the paper. Opinions will differ on the current state of affairs of the United States, but one thing is for sure, history will have the last word.
I’ll leave you with this:
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln
