Rather than address this discrepancy that I brought to your attention from your comments to me (I suspect that your first comment was total sarcasm but it is improper blog etiquette to assume that a person’s words mean the opposite of what they actually say…so I pointed out in the above paragraph that the two posts were contradictory (hence leading to a convoluted dialog). Rather than address that I was clearly referring to two back ot back posts from you, you counter me with the notion that ‘it was only one sentence’.

If you had read one post above this one that you found problems with, you would have seen I did indeed address the discrepancy! I stated very clearly that it was Maggie I was talking about. I hope we can put this issue to rest now

From what you’ve just revealed, I do believe she deserves to feel the heat of public scrutiny and/or criticism for the double-standards she embodies.

Someone who wants to tell me how to live but who isn’t willing to live that way themself.

Yep – couldn’t be more accurate. Before I was a Christian that was the biggest turn off. It still is the biggest turn off.

Okay – back to focusing on my own log. What a mess to clean up.

I thought you were talking about the longer discussion about perceptions in which I suggested that she was presented as such.

This bit of verbal shorthand may have confused you about my intent so I’ll change the wording:

Yep. After she

1) said that she supported “Biblical correctess” rather than political correctness, and
2) appeared for five services at her church where she said she “stayed true to her beliefs” which were “how she was brought up to believe” and where she and her pastor referenced 2 Timothy 3:12-13 – “In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.” thereby implying that she was living a godly life, and
3) held a press conference to promote the National Organization for Marriage ad which starred her, and
4) announced to the press that she’d tell Perez Hilton that he needs Jesus, and
5) went on numerious news shows wherein she was presented – without objection or correction – as an example of a young woman willing to give up her dream to live out her faith, and
6) promised to defend marriage however she could
her behavior is fair game. Her parents are not.

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em>Yep. After she set herself up as a defender of virtue, her behavior is fair game. Her parents are not.

Content: She set herself up as a defender of virtue therefore her behavior is fair game. Her parents did not set themselves up as defenders of virtue therefore they are not.

(Observations: If it’s the pageant answer, she didn’t set herself up, her questioner did. And she only spoke honestly to her political viewpoint on the question. To my knowledge, she didn’t elaborate; she didn’t bring the issue of moral or immoral into the answer. When people hear things that aren’t really said, it always gives me pause.)

I went back to the original post before commenting to see if there were any clues that Miss Prejean was indeed doing anything that could be construed as being a ‘defender of virtue’ and I found nothing. 1) She answered the question during the pageant. 2) She made the public statement that is the subject of this post. 3) Info about her volunteer work was also included.

I was clueless about Maggie and now I wonder if there’s a part of Miss Prejean’s story that I’m missing. If she has been ‘defending virtue’, then she deserves all the heat she’s getting and then some. But, if it’s her answer during the pageant that’s viewed by you and others as her being a ‘defender of virtue’, that speaks to your own bias and propensity for hyperbolic rhetoric. (Characterizing her as a ‘defender of virtue’ justifies the ongoing attacks against her…it makes ‘hypocrite’ ring true.)

My first entanglement in this discussion was after Brady made the global statement that the Christian right was calling foul and playing the victim card. Duh, Maggie said that the abuse that Carrie Prejean has been receiving is astonishing. I’m trying to stick with the facts and avoid the spin and value-charged word choices that are being used to advance a political cause at the expense of Miss Prejean.

Go back and read what I said again. This time read for the content, not to find something to argue with.