In brief: Politics and Pageants
Posted by Chris Roberts on April 23rd, 2009 at 8:39 pm.
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I won’t recap all of the news surrounding Miss California and the Miss USA Pageant. Just one observation. Why is it that many conservatives are very quick to defend Miss California’s words but few seem to be expressing concern over what she was doing to begin with? 

Two statements jumped out of a NY Times Debate page

Ben Finzel said: “Beauty pageants tend to rely on a fairly conservative audience not generally assumed to be supportive of equal marriage rights.”

If true, that is very sad. What in a beauty pageant resonates with biblical living?

Maggie Gallagher said: “…she chose truth over the tiara.”

Yes, but she shouldn’t have been pursuing the tiara to begin with. Let me modify Tertullian for this situation: what hath the pageant floor to do with righteousness?



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  • Bobby Winters

    Chris,
    While I appreciate your views on modesty, I wonder about the situation of someone like Queen Esther who gave herself into a harem in a similar contest. “Might not it be for this very reason that you were raised to this position?” Mordecai asked.

    Bobby