Slice of Laodicea

The moral confusion among supposedly conservative Christians has been drawn out by, of all things, a beauty pageant. Conservative, “pro-family” activists, bloggers and pastors continue to swoon days later after Miss California responded in a politically incorrect fashion to a question posed her during the competition. Christian bloggers and commentators, most of them male, continue to exalt Miss Prejean to the status of a Christian Woman for All Seasons. Rarely has there been this kind of uniform praise for any Christian woman taking a stand on the issue of homosexuality or anything else. Ordinarily, Christian women who take a stand for what is right are told to go home and shut up. Is there a connection between a great body and female credibility among Christian males today? But then that’s another post. 

Rev. Mark Creech was so inspired by the nearly naked beauty contestant that he said her stance was a source of “rapturous joy.” Let’s think about those words for a moment. Here we have a supposed champion of rectitude, of moral values, a man who supposedly values home, hearth, wife and children, decency, biblical virtue and clean moral living granting what appears to be a Protestant version of sainthood to a woman who was the picture of public nudity. Why? Because she gave her opinion, sans Scripture, that she thinks marriage is between a man and a women. This has been said before here, and I will repeat it: Christian men, are you so blinded by the culture that you can watch a woman without clothes for any purpose, let alone in defense of decency and marriage? 

Do you have a daughter, Rev. Creech? Does it trouble you that you are holding up Prejean as an example to her of godliness and moral courage? Would you like millions of men oggling the private parts of your daughter (or wife, for that matter) as millions of men undoubtedly were that night? Would you like your daughter/wife to be judged by the size of her chest and the state of her behind? That’s what was going on, Christian male defenders of this woman.

Since Slice ran Pastor Larry DeBruyn’s piece on this, I have heard from a number of Christian women who are sickened by this entire scenario and dismayed to see even conservative male bloggers defending Miss Prejean as some kind of hero. “Thank you for defending Christian women who still believe in biblical modesty, in covering our nakedness and for standing against the growing acceptance of nudity among Christian men.” It is degrading and debasing to all women when these so-called beauty pageants are held and a woman’s value is judged by her outward appearance. That so-called Christian men can defend this and uphold this woman as exemplary beggars belief. God help men who can say this is godly. They are blinded.

Miss Prejean, however sincere, is not a hero. She is a cautionary tale about what happens when a culture so infiltrates the church that public nudity is now viewed as not only perfectly acceptable, but even admirable. Now Christian men can admire not only her stance for marriage but her measurements. Truly, a Christian female men can support.