Carrie Prejean “Satan was testing me”

May 12, 2009

She was in the top 5 and then came the question and then came her answer and then came her character assassination. This poor girl is being ripped apart because she dared to speak out against gay marriage. Why isn’t she allowed to have her own stance? To voice her beliefs. And then of course comes the dumb blonde jokes and the leak of photos and details of plastic surgery. Have to love today’s treatment of non-leftists. Perez Hilton set her up and actually admitted that she might have won if she didn’t get the question.

But she truly isn’t helping herself with the continued public appearances. She should realize she will never win.

What is the purpose of these pageants anyway? And aren’t there any “guardians” or whatever from California who could give her some advice? She is still representing them. Yes. She retains her crown. Donald Trump said “It’s the 21st Century”.

Here is her interview with James Dobson. You decide what it’s all about. They play the clip where she answers the way she did and then Dobson questions her.

DR DOBSON: That turned out to be a defining moment of your life. And it sounded, Carrie, like your first reaction was to hedge, to say, ‘Well, this is a free country’ and then something took over.

CARRIE PREJEAN: It really was a switch.

DOBSON: And you did one of the most courageous things I’ve seen anybody your age or anybody else do. What was going on in your mind?

PREJEAN: Well I started off by saying I want to win this pageant so bad, I’ve worked so hard. I wanted to sound politically correct, but still stay true to my values. But I just knew at that moment that God was just telling me ‘Carrie, how bad do you want this? Are you willing to compromise your beliefs for a one year crown of Miss USA.’ And I just knew right there – and I said you know what [snapped her fingers], and the switch went off. And I said, “A marriage should be between a man and a woman and that’s how I was raised and that’s how it should be. But I also said no offense to the anyone out there. I didn’t want to offend the man asking me the question.

DOBSON: You had been asked your opinion.

PREJEAN:…He asked my opinion and I gave my opinion. He didn’t ask what do you think homosexuals think about this. He said ‘Carrie, what do you think about this’?

DOBSON: What did he want you to do, to lie?

PREJEAN: He wanted me to agree with him, cause he probably knew how bad I wanted this.

DOBSON: Did you realize that what you said was going to put you in the spoltlight

PREJEAN:…I just smiled and I knew there was no way I would win Miss USA. No way.

DOBSON: So, you put it on the line?

PREJEAN: I did.

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DOBSON: And yet the Lord is using you all over this country.

PREJEAN: I want to encourage other people that when you are faced with an issue…don’t ever compromise that just for pleasing them.Your goal should be to please God, not man.

Sound advice.

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PREJEAN: You may be persecuted, you may be made fun of, you may be mocked and called awful, awful names, but at the end of the day you’re moving on with your life.

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Mom chimes in.

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DOBSON: It’s my understanding that you’ve heard from some within the homosexual community who are affirming of you.

PREJEAN: Oh, I’ve had so much support from the gay community. I just want to thank the gay community if they are listening for their support. They say, you stood up for what you believe and that’s what we do – we stand up for what we every single day. We can agree to disagree…There’s no hate in what I said. I love gay people…This is not against homosexuals.

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DOBSON: Why did you give the answer you did with regard to the affirmation of marriage?

PREJEAN: Honestly, I felt as though Satan was — and I don’t want to say that this person represented Satan – but, I felt as though Satan was trying to tempt me in asking me this question, and then God was in my head and in my heart saying, Carrie, do not compromise this. You need to stand up for me. You need to share with all these people –if there were 95 percent of the people in the audience that were gay – you need to witness to them. And you need to show that you’re not willing to compromise that for this title of Miss USA. And so I just knew right here that it wasn’t about winning. It was about being true to my conviction.

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DOBSON: Carrie, do yo have any regrets?

PREJEAN: No.

DOBSON: You would do it again?

PREJEAN: I would do it again.

DOBSON: Even if you could have won the crown by compromising?

PREJEAN: Oh yes….I have a platform now.

So has the Republican party just found there new it girl? Christian broadcasting networks? She was well-spoken here and what she said was perfectly reasonable.

I don’t know. It’s all madness. Why doesn’t everyone have a right to speak? The overwhelming majority of the country is against same-sex marriage anyway.

And how many folks in the media are mentioning the fact that she has received support from the gay community?