"Miss California" Scenario Continues to Deteriorate

http://news.bostonherald.com/track/celebrity/view/2009_04_29_Liberty_U_…] Liberty U. offers scholarship to Miss California

I feel sad for the ordinary looking female academic achievers who decide to keep their clothes on!

http://www.liberty.edu/index.cfm?PID=18495&MID=7541

The above link tells about Prejean at Liberty’s convocation. Falwell, Sr. was an ambulance chaser, and his sons seem to have the same addiction to publicity that their father had.

Back when Prejean had her run-in with the pageant I was talking to a missionary about whether a Christian girl should even be in such pageants. He had first hand knowledge of an assistant pastor in Kansas whose daughter was going to compete in Miss Kansas. The sr. pastor told him it wouldn’t be appropriate for the daughter of a pastor to take part in such an event. The assistant pastor resigned the church in order for his daughter to take part.

Sign of the times I guess

[Jonathan Charles] Back when Prejean had her run-in with the pageant I was talking to a missionary about whether a Christian girl should even be in such pageants. He had first hand knowledge of an assistant pastor in Kansas whose daughter was going to compete in Miss Kansas. The sr. pastor told him it wouldn’t be appropriate for the daughter of a pastor to take part in such an event. The assistant pastor resigned the church in order for his daughter to take part.

I think it is very hypocritical for her to stand in front of the whole world in basically her underwear and tell them that she’s a Christian. I wish she’d have kept her mouth shut. I think it drags the name “Christian” in the dirt. I strongly believe that Christian women/teens/girls shouldn’t be in this kid of beauty pageant. Not if it requires them to take off their clothes (and they all do, I believe).

The whole idea behind “beauty contests” isn’t exactly “godly thinking”, but at a minimum…you’d think that dads wouldn’t want the world looking at their daughters like that.

What would a “Christian” beauty pageant look like?

Hmmmmm…. a wide variety of ladies in all their diversity reflecting “the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit.” (1 Peter 3:3-4) Of course, no one would enter such a competition. The vain women/girls want to be recognized for their outward beauty, so they wouldn’t enter. The truly beautiful wouldn’t enter because in the beauty of their humility, they wouldn’t even realize they stood a chance of winning!

I’ll go out on a limb here and suggest that any “Christian” girl/woman who enters a beauty pageant for a witnessing platform is either self-deluded, deluded by her glory-seeking parents, or deliberately deceptive. She’s in it for self-glory. Period. Any protestations otherwise are merely efforts of self-justification.

[BryanBice] I’ll go out on a limb here and suggest that any “Christian” girl/woman who enters a beauty pageant for a witnessing platform is either self-deluded, deluded by her glory-seeking parents, or deliberately deceptive. She’s in it for self-glory. Period. Any protestations otherwise are merely efforts of self-justification.

I’m with ya out on that limb, brother. I don’t want my daughters to become “stupid, spoiled little stick figures with poofy lips who think only about themselves” (Edna Mode from The Incredibles). I tell my oldest that anyone can be beautiful on the outside…for a price.

I think another important aspect of this is the Christian Right Political Movement, that thought this story was going to be about a girl denied her title due to her Christian viewpoints on gay marriage. They must feel sick to their stomachs, thinking of all the pulpit time spent defending this poor, courageous Christian girl.

Everybody should have understood that her presence there spoke to the wrong values of some modern Christians — almost certainly her too. No secular society has the right to define what is the ideal woman. That is God’s prerogative. The pageants start from a non-Christian premise.

[Mike Durning] They must feel sick to their stomachs, thinking of all the pulpit time spent defending this poor, courageous Christian girl.
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Having watched this behavior for 30 years, the cynic in me doubts that they will experience much remorse. They didn’t show any after they endorsed people like Eldridge Cleaver, Larry Flyntt, Linda Lovelace, and Bob Dylan.