Carrie Prejean Thanks You for Supporting Her

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Friday, September 18, 2009 at 1:20 pm

I’m at the 4th Annual Values Voter Summit, the Focus on the Family-sponsored conference which is incredibly heavy on Republican stars — Pence, Huckabee, Cantor, McConnell, Bachmann. But the star of the morning session was Carrie Prejean, the former Miss California who lost the Miss America crown after a pageant judge asked her whether she supported gay marriage and she said no. Prejean arrived with the National Organization for Marriage, and was introduced by NOM’s Maggie Gallagher with a passionate speech about what Prejean had overcome.

“Carrie is going to obey, I think, the most frequently repeated command in the Bible,” said Gallagher. “Be not afraid. God bless you, Carrie.”

“Thank you for thousands of Americans who have believed in me, who have supported me, who have been in this fight with me,” said Prejean. “I cannot thank you enough.” Rightwingwatch has video, and there’s more after the jump.

There was huge applause, and then Prejean got to topic of her speech: Herself. Some highlights:

- “I’m sure a lot of you have seen me on the news and heard me in interviews.”

- “As I entered into the pageantry world, I was raised as a total athlete. I was a complete jock. I played four sports. I was a varsity basketball starter.”

- “I entered into the pageant, and from there, I just became so successful with it. And anything that I put my mind to, and anything I was determined to do.”

- “I always saw pageants as doing better for the world.”

- “I never thought that I would be up on a stage representing, you know, the state of California.”

- “I even had an accent-modification coach, because some people said I sounded like I was from the midwest. I guess I say my Os funny.”

- “I felt very proud of who I had become.”

- “You can be an athlete and be feminine at the same time.”

After much of this, Prejean finally told the story of the fateful pageant night. “In my head,” she said, “I could not believe that they were asking that question at Miss USA. I thought it was extremely inappropriate for that venue.” The crowd rose up with applause. “In my head, I was asking: ‘God, why are they asking this question?’”

From there, Prejean told the story of the backlash as the packed ballroom listened raptly.

“I don’t know why chose to attack my mother, my father, my 90-year old grandmother, on a daily basis,” said Prejean. “There was something wrong with turning on the TV and seeing people mock me for my faith.”

Prejean turned on the heat from there. “I am disgusted with the way some people can be so intolerant. It disgusts. But you know what? I am here today because I am still standing. I have not been defeated.”

The crowd was with her. “For the thousands and perhaps millions of Americans who have followed me, who have believed in me, and seen me as just a little beauty pageant girl who was supposed to say ‘world peace.’”

Prejean almost let her emotions get the better of her. “I may not have won the crown that night,” she said, then paused for four seconds, apparently choked up. “I know the Lord has such a bigger crown waiting for me.”

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TN
Comment posted September 18, 2009 @ 5:48 pm

Palin / Bachmann / Prejean in 2012!

(since Palin would quit presiding after 2-3 years, they need at least 2 VPs)


Whatever
Comment posted September 18, 2009 @ 5:51 pm

- “I felt very proud of who I had become.”

Proud that you are a bigot?

Well, at least she's honest about it!


theconservatarian
Comment posted September 18, 2009 @ 5:56 pm

I am a Christian, and I agree with what she SAID regarding marriage being between a man and a woman, but her life does not reflect the values she touts. How can one tout family values while enciting lust? Yes, topless shots, the bikini “fitness” parade in the competitions, etc., are most definitely not in line with the scripture being quoted.


nick
Comment posted September 18, 2009 @ 5:57 pm

Its either success as a conservative religious “speaker” “attendee” or its Playboy. See if you can get famous and make a few bucks doing it morally or get famous and make a few bucks taking your kit off. Based on her actions doesn't that sound more like what was going on in her head than her rather belated chit chats with the man upstairs? What an ass, total pietitty


thatsright
Comment posted September 18, 2009 @ 5:58 pm

Of course marriage should be between Men and Women. What a fuck is wrong with American People! Thank u for saying that even if people don't support u it must be that way


annoyedamerican
Comment posted September 18, 2009 @ 6:00 pm

What a stupid ditz!


Name
Comment posted September 18, 2009 @ 6:05 pm

Poor Miss Prejean. One of the essential features if ignorance, unfortunately, is that it prevents the ignorant from realizing just how ignorant they are. With luck, some day this poor, beautiful young lady will meet people who will stir her mind to curiosity and activity, and she will grow up. She then no doubt will cringe at embarrassment at who she was as a younger woman, but her life thereafter can be in the real world, and she canm have real thoughts and feelings, and perhaps even understanding of and comppassion for other adults. These evangelical conservative enablers of hers are another story — they are intellectual fossils already, some at an early age.


willard11
Comment posted September 18, 2009 @ 6:05 pm

someone PLEASE make her go AWAY!!!


pdxlager
Comment posted September 18, 2009 @ 6:05 pm

I'd like to thank Jesus for my breast implants. Just as God intended.


lairdp
Comment posted September 18, 2009 @ 6:05 pm

“I am disgusted with the way some people can be so intolerant.”

To be clear, she didn't lose because she is intolerant of gays. There are plenty of homophobes who manage to control their behavior in public. She lost because she lacks the judgement or self control required to function successfully in the world of beauty pageants. That being said she's apparently cunning enough to spin that failure into a career catering to other homophobes.


Name
Comment posted September 18, 2009 @ 6:05 pm

Thank you for saying marriage should be between a man and a woman, of course it should. You are absolutely right. Good for you for sticking with your faith. I wish more people did.


Jaeda
Comment posted September 18, 2009 @ 6:08 pm

This whole “God” thing is just eating from the hand that feeds you. If you were so worried about what the Bible said you wouldn't have got those breast implants, that was YOUR choice.

Gay people want the same legal protections, rights, and privileges that are granted to heterosexual couples. They pay taxes, too. You don't have to believe in Gay Marriage or think it's right to believe that we should all be treated equally under the law. If you're so worried about Marriage, why don't you focus your comments on what's REALLY the problem with Marriage — no fault divorces, “starter” and whirlwind marriages. Gay marriage is a scapegoat and just allows you to ride on people's bigotry.

Put your money where your mouth is: make it unconstitutional and illegal to get a divorce except in the most extreme of situations. THEN, and only then, can you even consider coming back to Gay marriage. But I bet you you won't get far with that, because all of the “Focus on the Family” don't give a darn about what they're saying. They're just masking their bigotry with the Bible.

Besides, if marriage is truly between a man and a woman for the sake of procreation, then we should make it illegal for sterile men and/or women to get married, because they can't bear children. Artificial insemination you say? Gays can have those, too.


Obot 1024
Comment posted September 18, 2009 @ 6:18 pm

The narcissism cloaked in religion is sickening.


Name
Comment posted September 18, 2009 @ 6:23 pm

Gotta love the hypocrisy –how is getting a boob-job (and a bad one at that!) part of family values?


Bill
Comment posted September 18, 2009 @ 6:26 pm

I actually feel sorry for Prejean.

For she is simply too young and too uneducated to grasp that she is only being used by the Christian jihadists (and make no mistake – that is EXACLTY what Christian are.) And when thses terrorists have used her up and she has served their evil purpose, she will be cast aside, left to pick up the pieces of her life, and make her way in a world that has passed all of them by.

One day, Prejean will likely want to start a family of her own. Imagine the shame and embarrassment of her children. Opening their history books in their classrooms and seeing their mother's picture in that book. Right next to Maggie Gallagher and all the others who tried to destroy the United States Constitution in order to impose their religious beliefs onto a country that has largely rejected the hateful religion called Christianity.

So, as ridiculous as of this all is, I can only wonder if being the Anita Bryant of the new millennium is something that Prejean even has the cranial capacity to understand.

Poor girl. So enraptured by fame of any sort that she would allow herself to be used as nothing more than a prostitute for the religious right and their continuing persecution of 30 million American citizens.

And when the world passes these people by, as is happening this very moment, Prejean will be alone, broke, in debt, and nothing more than a footnote in history of the type of American citizen that is simply no longer a viable member of society.

But at least “the Lord has such a bigger crown” waiting for her. It's just too bad nobody told her it was a crown of thorns.


Bill
Comment posted September 18, 2009 @ 6:44 pm

Did the KKK change their name to the Value Votes Summit?

If so, Carrie Prejean, Bigot/Racist/Uneducated fits right in.

Honestly, how can a fictional character (god) select you “at that moment” to defend marriage. Please!

Your delusion and believing in fictional things should send you straight to the looney bin!


Bill
Comment posted September 18, 2009 @ 6:46 pm

No, your fictional book states that marriage is between a man and a women. this country is Secular and your religion cannot be infused into the laws of the land!

You should educate yourself instead of being a hate monger and bigot


thatsright
Comment posted September 18, 2009 @ 8:17 pm

Instead of complaining bible it is easier and it's the right way to obey u can be just like other people n marry a woman instead of choosing the unnatural way


Swami_Binkinanda
Comment posted September 18, 2009 @ 10:17 pm

Knuckle under to the bitter minority. Better not to stand out. Just be a liar and bear false witness, live a lie that harms your fake family and whatever children you feel forced to have. Be like Ted Haggard, publicly pious to a fault while snorting crank of a male prostitute's bumcheeks. Because Christians are about love and forgiveness, and they might just murder you with love and forgive you after your near lifeless body is found tied to a fence in rural Wyoming. Because Jesus was all about half measures and lukewarm people. One line in the Old Testament trumps the entire New Testament. One line cancels Christ's message of love, tolerance, and hope.
These people aren't Christians at all. They are Satanists who pretend to be Christians because it is popular. Pharisees. Whited sepulchres. They never knew him at all.


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monkey99
Comment posted September 21, 2009 @ 4:44 am

Hey guys! Don't be so hard. She's just a chocolate Easter bunny, a Barbie doll knockoff. She knows no more about what she's saying, than a dog has use for calculus.

Look at it this way, those looks won't last forever. All she's left with then, is…….


Thelordsman
Comment posted September 26, 2009 @ 4:40 am

I agree with Carrie. Keep standing strong on God's word, and always keep THE LAW in your heart. The Lord has a Crown waiting for me in heaven as well. I believe in God and IN HIS SON JESUS. I fully support Carrie and I ask that THe LORD BLESS HER AND HER FAMILY. Carrie Finish the race Keep the faith. No weapon formed against you shall prosper. Greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world. No one who is in Christ is defeated. Carrie I wish I could give you a kiss and a hug for all that you have gone through, but you are right Jesus has a crown for you and its bigger and much more beautiful than that crown that you didn't win. One last thing, I am glad that you didn't Give yourself up and gone with the popular crowd.


anitanotbryant
Comment posted September 27, 2009 @ 9:03 pm

I feel sorry for you for being so full of hate and not knowing how much God loves ALL of us. Why do you hate Christians? Why do you want to hurt Jesus, too? You don't even know Jesus, his teachings, and that He loved us so much He died on a cross, to wash away our sins, so we can have eternal life. Why is it OK for all the gays, hollywood stars, etc. to be so hateful and cruel to Miss America who expressed her true beliefs? She didn't put you down. If I was her daughter I would be happy my mother had the guts to stick to her beliefs, even though she would lose her crown. She is beautiful on the outside and is beautiful on the inside. Good people have lasting beauty. There must be a void in your life to make you so bitter. Remember, all good things come to people who love God! Who needs a crown anyway, she is more beautiful now, without one!

Anita (not Bryant)


anitanotbryant
Comment posted September 27, 2009 @ 9:50 pm

How is marriage going to give you more rights? Is it possible to get rights, without marriage, from the government? You do have more rights, opinions, freedom and the right to live than aborted babies do. If you want a meaningful fight, then fight for an end to abortion; starting with the USA and then the WORLD.


David
Comment posted October 9, 2009 @ 5:53 am

Does anyone really care what this dimwitted future ex-trophy wife thinks?

She's in it for the $$$ you idiots. Just another opportunist cashing off the gulible “family values crowd” She and Mike “SPANKY” Duvall should get together and compare notes.


David
Comment posted October 9, 2009 @ 5:56 am

Hey Anitanotbryant- Heterosexuals have abortions. Gay people do not. Who's a bigger threat to families?


David
Comment posted October 9, 2009 @ 5:59 am

Better yet- Be like Mike “Spanky” Duvall of the “family values” crowd and brag about spanking your mistress and cheating on your wife on an open mike!

He and Mz Prejudge should get together and …. no the thought turns my stomach.


David
Comment posted October 9, 2009 @ 6:02 am

Hey Thelordsman- “The Lord has a Crown waiting for me in heaven as well.”

You sound pretty sure of that…. I bet GOD has other plans for the self-righteous and arrogant.


anitanotbryant
Comment posted October 9, 2009 @ 4:50 pm

David (unregistered) wrote, in response to anitanotbryant:

Hey Anitanotbryant- Heterosexuals have abortions. Gay people do not. Who's a bigger threat to families?
You are right about heterosexuals having abortions. Sin is sin, and killing innocent babies is horrible. Those babies could change the world. Marriage is a Holy Sacrament of the Church. Loving, worshiping and obeying God is everyones purpose of life.
Anita


REPUBLICAN PEEPING TOMS
Comment posted October 14, 2009 @ 10:58 pm

Why do you worry about what adults do in thier own house???


anitanotbryant
Comment posted October 14, 2009 @ 11:36 pm

I don't get the connection. Who cares what you do in your own home as long as you don't hurt anybody. Why do you care what Carrie Prejean says, when she speaks the truth. Do you only want to hear lies?


JadedBarbie
Comment posted October 21, 2009 @ 3:02 pm

You know what would help solve that problem? Birth control pills, condoms, and education. Abortions come predominantly from unwanted pregnancy, target that and you reduce the likelihood that a pregnancy is unwanted. If there wasn't such a stigma against allowing their use and even BANS on getting contraceptives for women that want them, you'd automatically reduce abortion rates. Abstinence doesn't always work and it's not realistic to believe it does nor should you force your views down someone's throat.

As for “more rights from marriage” you honestly need to do some research. Marriage is not a sacreed institution “anymore.” You get money, reduced taxes, the ability to provide healthcare to your spouse, the ability to visit them in the hospital when they are sick, shared custody of children, inheritance and property rights… the list goes on. To say otherwise is top be completely ignorant of the world you live in.


anitanotbryant
Comment posted October 21, 2009 @ 4:25 pm

I am so glad you know more than God. How you can twist the truth to satisfy your selfish whims. The whole world must change and love God above all things and than love their neighbor. You hate anyone that does not agree with you. Fine hate me, but please don't hate the creator. Marriage was, is, and always will be a “sacred” sacrament between a man and a woman. (Not a man made instituiton). Yes there are many evils in the world and we all must change. Everyone please pray the Rosary, love one another, go to church and love God above everything. See holylove.org, Ohio; it changed my life and gave me hope. We can all have peace, love and happiness and change the world. You may hate me for saying this, but always love and believe in God. God is the truth.
Anita


JadedBarbie
Comment posted October 21, 2009 @ 4:46 pm

There is no hate from me. A disdain for ignorance, perhaps, but there is no hate. That is for the religious people who preach it under the false guise of gospel to propogate, not I. Saying that gay people do not deserve equal rights because “God told you to say that” as some kind of religious posterchild while having had breast implants (the body is a temple and she “mutilated” it forthe carnal desires of men) and nude photos is cherry-picking that hate perpetuated by those who use their hate to forward an agenda while choosing to ignore God's other mandates. 30 million dollas on Prop8 ads — how many poor people could have been fed with that money? I am ALL FOR returning marriage to a completely sacred institution. That's another way to solve the problem. No gov't sanctions. No tax breaks, no rights to property, etc. You can have a “civil union” and “marriage” if you want all of that. The churches can choose to deny gay people marriages because there would be separation of church and state. Go ahead and advocate that. See how far you get. Plenty of non-religious people get “married” for the rights and benefits. I bet you they wouldn't want those taken away. Now you see the position the gays are in and why they want legal recognition of their unions as EQUAL to the gov't provisions of marriage. There is no hate here. Not on my end.


anitanotbryant
Comment posted October 22, 2009 @ 5:17 am

I never said you don't deserve rights, freedoms, peace and love. Just leave marriage out of the equation. Do you think any couples are going to get tax breaks these days? The economy is terrible and the taxes will be high for all. If you do not hate what is it? The gays hate Carrie because she said what she believed in. She answered the question truthfully and tried not to offend anyone else. Pray, pray, pray. Prayer will give you peace.
With love,


JadedBarbie
Comment posted October 22, 2009 @ 4:26 pm

In order to “leave marriage out of the equation” you either have to remove or extend all of the *legal* rights tied to marriage. This really isn't an issue of defining love. Regardless of what the zealotous religious might say (because I am religious) same-sex people can experience true love for one another — they are wired that way. This is an issue of the rights that are *tied* to marriage. I don't care what name you give it (though some do) the rights have to be equal. A civil union is NOT marriage in terms of the rights and protections granted to a couple. In fact in many cases it's not even a decent subset of those rights. Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's. People need to stop using a book to deny state and federal rights to two consenting human beings. Keep the state and religion separate. If your religion says “don't eat pork” then don't eat pork, don't try to get pork outlawed for everyone else because their religion or lack thereof may say eating pork is okay. I think the issue gays [might] have with Carrie's statement is that her “position” is supposed to represent “everyone” and her response should have been neutral. Even other contestants say they would have responded in a more sensitive manner. If you go in front of a crowd of pro-lifers and say “I think, no offense, everyone should be able to abort their children whenever” you might get shot. Obama chose to be conservative on his acknowledgement of the National Day of Prayer and right wingers and church thumpers expressed their vitriol and questioned his faith. He goes to church every week. So it's not like it's just something “gays” do. And then to defend her comments afterward as God told me to say it because Satan was tempting me… where was God when she CHOSE to pose nude or get breast implants? Most contestants use meat cutlets. She chose to get implants. Wherew was the zealotry then?


JadedBarbie
Comment posted October 22, 2009 @ 4:28 pm

Also I apologize for my typos in previous responses. I am still responding from a mobile phone.


Celebrities Nude
Comment posted August 27, 2010 @ 3:11 pm

I am a Christian, and I agree with what she SAID regarding marriage being between a man and a woman, but her life does not reflect the values she touts. How can one tout family values while enciting lust? Yes, topless shots, the bikini “fitness” parade in the competitions, etc., are most definitely not in line with the modesty also demanded by the Bible they are quoting.


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