One month after being allowed to keep her crown, Carrie Prejean was fired Wednesday by the Miss California USA pageant, with both sides in the dispute disagreeing over the reasons.
Miss California officials said Prejean was let go because she refused to cooperate and did not fulfill her obligations for the role by making certain appearances. Prejean, though, said she was fired because of her support for California Proposition 8 and opposition to "gay marriage."
Donald Trump, who owns the Miss USA pageant and who just a month earlier let her keep her title, approved the firing, FoxNews.com reported.
Keith Lewis, executive director of the company that runs the Miss California USA pageant, said the decision was "based solely on contract violations." Tami Farrel, the Miss California USA runner-up, is the new Miss California.
"After our press conference in New York we had hoped we would be able to forge a better working relationship," Lewis was quoted as saying in a release on FoxNews.com. "However, since that time it has become abundantly clear that Carrie has no desire to fulfill her obligations under our contract and work together."
Prejean, though, saw it differently.
"What's behind this I think is a political debate," she told the celebrity gossip website TMZ.com. "They don't agree with the stance that I took .... They don't like me. From day one they wanted me out and they got what they wanted."
Prejean's attorney, Charles LiMandri, disagreed with Miss California officials and told FoxNews.com that she "has been in constant contact with pageant officials seeking to fulfill her obligations."
Trump, Prejean and Miss California officials took part in a press conference May 12 in which Trump announced she would be able to keep her title. Prior to the press conference, Miss California officials had been highly critical of Prejean's involvement with the National Organization for Marriage, a pro-family group opposed to "gay marriage." Racy photos of Prejean also had surfaced -- photos Prejean said were released by a professional photographer without her permission.
The controversy surrounding Prejean began April 19, when Prejean was asked during the Miss USA pageant whether she believed other states should follow Vermont's lead in legalizing "gay marriage." A student at San Diego Christian College in El Cajon who attends The Rock Church in San Diego, Prejean responded by saying "marriage should be between a man and a woman." She finished first runner-up, with some observers saying the answer cost her the crown. Her pastor, Miles McPherson, appeared on radio and television defending not only her but her opposition to "gay marriage."
Prejean appeared on NBC's "Today" show two days after Miss USA and was asked if she would have answered the question differently if given the chance.
"It's not about being politically correct," she said. "For me, it was being biblically correct." She added, regarding her missed opportunity to win the crown, "It wasn't what God wanted for my life that night."
Conservatives defended her the past two months and came to her defense again after she was fired.
"After weeks of left-wing campaigns to destroy the young woman, Americans have now seen what happens to anyone who dares run up against the gay lobby," Dan Gainor, vice president of business and culture for the Media Research Center, wrote in a column on FoxNews.com. "The exact same scenario played out with Proposition 8 against gay marriage. They are attacked by the left and the media, which on this issue like so many others, are identical."
Said Maggie Gallagher, president of the National Organization for Marriage, "Hollywood will dance its tribal war dance over her body -- the hatred generated against her has been extraordinary -- but Carrie will be free to define her own mission and message from now on. Congratulations."
Plenty of media personalities had criticized Prejean, and few did it tactfully. The judge who asked the initial Miss USA question to Prejean, celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, posted a video on his website saying Prejean lost because she was a "dumb ." A second judge, Las Vegas entertainment reporter Alicia Jacobs, wrote on her blog that Prejean "made the mistake of not knowing when to shut her mouth."
MSNBC anchor David Shuster piled on, writing on his Twitter account of Hilton, "I think his assessment of Miss USA's logic was accurate." Giuliana Rancic, a news anchor on E! Television, wrote on her Twitter account regarding Prejean, "she is an ignorant discrace and she makes me sick to my stomach."
SOURCE: Baptist Messenger
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Her belief got her fired is true. Jesus said they dont hate you, they hate me. I am the light and those that hate the light will hate you when you walk in the light. Their evil deeds are uncovered because of the light. A good filling of the Holy Spirit will give her more power.
MIND Over glands
The defenders of homosexuality continue the oxymoron
contradiction of attempting to use the mind to justify the
rule of carnal glands.
Thinking Americans still don't give 'a tinkers-sham' what
homosexuals do with their body-parts. An individual or
a society which is by law and tradition committed to the
natural human hierarchy of mind over body will not, how-
ever, ever sanction glandular rule over the human mind.
Undisciplined human desire can induce distorted perception.
The disturbed personality or inverted character can be
considered to be cognitively confused. This description is
confirmed by the work of English psychoanalyst Money-
Kyrle, who indicates that it is more accurate to recognize
such a condition as the result of distorted perception.
Neurosis, psychosis, stunting of growth, etc., are all, from
this perspective, cognitive diseases contaminating not only
perception but thinking, learning, remembering, valuing, and
decision- and choice-making.
Money-Kyrle affirms that scientific truth is not attained by a
trendy self-serving fashion, confession of inadequacy,
abdication, or collective majority-vote. There is no excuse for
professional ignorance willfully maintained.
By definition, a standard that is flexible is not a standard at all.
The human mind requires a standard of comparison that is
invariable. A criterion must be greater than the value measured
in order to supply value-meaning in a predictable direction of
survival and progression. The mind thus equipped is enabled
to maintain a natural dominion over the body and its appetites.
The very survival of the body itself, therefore, depends upon this
maintained intellectual authority. See Romans.
Our posterity cannot respect what it does not perceive, and it
cannot perceive that which has been abandoned or inverted to
an appetite of physical expediency by the equivocal person.
With confidence in the laws of human nature, we can know that
in the clash between carnality and intellect, the 'man of the mind'
will always prevail.
That is nature and GOD's way and intent all along.
"No one is smarter than their criteria." selah jfb
Jim Baxter
Teacher - 30 years
pointman/follower of The Lion of Judah
Santa Maria, CA
semper fidelis
Sgt. USMC
WWII & Korean War
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So what about the sex tape...
You must be joking this gal is a fake using
"morality" as a flag, her hypocrisy actually is getting her in trouble. She has a sex tape circulating the net and settle a lawsuit for money. Just google Prejan's image andyou will see that this girl has NO morals or religion stand, it's all fake as fake as Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachman!
She is not Moral or an example for Christians!
She has a striking resemblance to Evangelist, Denise Matthews (aka Vanity).
Maybe Denise could help (counsel).
Jim Baxter are you a moron or just ignorant? Can you say that you can control all of your desires? if you are hungry do you not eat? also read the bible closely, a man shall not lie with another man. What about lesbians. Also you may be a believer but you dont follow the bible exactly. If a woman hits someone in the balls is her hand cut off. no. Some of the bible is outdated. So shut up. gay people cannot stop being gay as much as a black man can will themselves to become white.
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