Miss California, Carrie Prejean a Spokesman for the Biblical Ethic?

From the beginning of the controversy surrounding Carrie Prejean the staff at Modest Clothing Distributors worried that the Christian community was hitching itself to the wrong horse. Carrie Prejean may be a Christian, and she may be attempting to conform her life to the principles of Biblical Christianity. However, we have always believed that Christians have pushed their celebrities into the limelight far too quickly for their own good, and too quickly for the good of the Christian message.

As this drama unfolds there is certainly much which could be addressed. We could point to the risqué photos that surfaced after Christians had begun to make a hero of Carrie Prejean as evidence that she was being pushed onto stage too quickly, but many authors will cover that topic. We could point out that Miss California's answer at the Miss America Pageant was too tolerant toward same sex marriage, but this author spent hours formulating the structure of the criticism for this article so that it was not conciliatory toward evil yet not personally offensive toward individuals. Carrie Prejean had seconds to formulate the answer to her question.

The issue that Modest Clothing Distributors wishes to address is the venue that launched Miss California to fame. Never mind the racy photos. It is our contention that Christians should not be running around on the beach in a bikini bathing suit, and they certainly should not be parading before full auditoriums and television cameras in bikinis.

Is homosexuality a worse sin than parading your mostly naked body across stage in front of a live audience? The answer to this question is probably yes, but an anti-Christian society is not our standard. We all know this, but we live like we don't. We tend to feel good about ourselves because we are not as evil as our lost neighbors. Because we have embraced this kind of ethic we have no influence on our decaying society. We wink at blasphemy in their entertainment, we vote for the lesser of two evils in their elections, in general we go along to get along. Modest Clothing Distributors believes that we need to live Biblically in every area of life, and we need to make society go along with the Bible to get along with a Godly ethic.

Scripture reveals that although God is merciful He is also just and He will chastise His people for their sins because of His justice and His love for them. Romans 1 says that when a society accepts homosexuality it is because God has begun His judgment of that society. It is our fault that this society has been given over to a reprobate mind. We will not recapture the culture by pushing immature believers onto center stage to carry the Biblical message. We need to repent (turn) to living Biblically in every aspect of our lives. We need to set our mature brothers and sisters, who have an understanding of world-changing theology, rather than immature believers who have attained fame in a worldly manner, on center stage before a depraved world.