Miss California Carrie Prejean: Discouraged from discussing religious beliefs

April 27, 2009 By 8 Comments

Miss California Carrie Prejean: Discouraged from discussing religious beliefs
The Miss USA pageant was certainly one to remember, following Miss California Carrie Prejean views about gay couples should not be allowed to marry. Prejean was urged by her state sponsors to apologize afterward, but she refused to take the advice.

Miss California Carrie Prejean: Discouraged from discussing religious beliefs

Prejean said that officials from the Miss California USA pageant were worried that her comments could cost her their contest financial backing; they also tried to prepare her for a number of media interviews by advising her not to discussing her religious beliefs, according to AP.

Her sponsors told her that she needs to apologize to the gay community, and that you should not discuss your faith. Prejean had said that she was representing California, and that she represents a majority of people in California.

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  • http://google Marsha

    I believe we live in a country where choice, freedom of speech is our right as and American. Our country was founded on Godly Principles, our military cemetary recognize The Saviour. So excuse me but Ms. Prjean has a right to voice her relational stands to the God she serves. I back her 100%

  • Ivan D. Ursery II

    I second that, Marsha. What kind of society are we coming to when people can’t state her opinion when asked a question?

  • Elizabeth

    I find it disturbingly interesting that we live in a country where we have to protect the rights of the minority at the expense of the rights of the rest of us. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion is for ALL – not just the loud, wannabe-oppressed.

    Here – let me add my FREE VOICE to hers – Marriage is for ONE MAN and ONE WOMAN. There. That’s how I was raised, that’s how I believe and I won’t apologize to anyone for that!

    Way to go, Carrie!

  • Carrie S.

    I may not agree with Carrie, but we must grapple with the fact that a) she reflects the perspective of more than 50 percent of California voters. b) She is not all body and sex appeal. She has a right to her opinions, no matter what they are. c) She is a product (many would even argue victim) of the hetero-centric culture she grew up in, which led her to value outer beauty and sex appeal over other Christian values. Christians, this should not us you proud.

  • GayCelibate

    What AMAZING courage this woman has.

  • Michael

    This whole controversy just shows how out-of-date beauty pageants are. She looks the way the penultimate American girl is supposed to look and spouts the ideology that built the country we now live in. If that’s yesterday’s way of thinking and living, then we should also move on from the entire idea of holding up people as examples of what others should aspire to be.

  • Allyson Stevenson

    Way to go, Carrie, for standing up for what you think! No one should be forced to apologize for what they value or believe.

  • http://salvagewhatgooglewrecked.blogspot.com Joseph Ravitts

    “I wish they all could be”–like THIS California girl! She realizes what everyone would realize, if common sense weren’t politically incorrect: that it is not SOCIETY which is “hetero-centric,” it’s NATURE which is “hetero-centric.” Of course, gays who love to feel sorry for themselves as “heroic martyrs,” if seeing my words, will choose to make themselves believe that I speak out of “hate” (that handy, convenient, unexamined buzzword); but they will be wrong. I don’t have to “hate” anyone to insist that normal is normal, and a pageant contestant has the right to say so!