I am so disappointed in Fox News.  They’ve invited Miss California Carrie Prejean to fill in for Gretchen Carlson next week on Fox and Friends. (FNC’s insipid morning news show… I think all of the morning news shows are insipid.  Frankly, I learn more about the world from Sid the Science Kid.)

I see Fox is trading on Prejean’s status as the new conservative Christian It girl.  Will they dump her like old trash like Liberty University did?  How much hype can they squeeze out of her?

I detest the media hype, actually.  As soon as she gave her opinion on gay marriage, and lost the crown, she was championed as a Christian role model.  Focus on the Family called her a modern Esther, standing up for God, and immediately booked her on air.

But she wasn’t.

Here’s her actual response.

PEREZ: Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not?

CARRIE: I think it’s great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. We live in a land that you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage and, you know what, in my country and my family I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anyone out there but that’s how I was raised and that’s how I think it should be between a man and a woman.

There’s no mention of religious beliefs, of Christ, of why she believes marriage should be this way.  In fact, she doesn’t even seem firmly convicted.  It was only after the fact, when the Christian right picked her up as their new darling, that she spoke of God, of Satan trying to tempt her to answer differently, and of her Christian convictions.

I absolutely agree with her opinion and her right to say it in a public forum.  This isn’t a free speech issue, though.

One cannot make a stand for Christ while in the midst of defying His will. I do not proclaim to know the mind of God, but I do know how to find the written instructions He has left for us.

We are told to cover our nakedness, and in the OT, “nakedness” was defined as even showing the thigh! (Exodus 20:26 ,Isaiah 47)

I realize many people have very different definitions of what “modesty” means in today’s culture, but I think most would agree that sequinned bikinis are not modest or adequate clothing, especially for giving interviews on national television.

St. Paul writes:

I also want women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety 1 Tim 2:9

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: (Paragraph 2521- 2533) (emphasis mine)

Purity requires modesty, an integral part of temperance. Modesty protects the intimate center of the person. It means refusing to unveil what should remain hidden. It is ordered to chastity to whose sensitivity it bears witness. It guides how one looks at others and behaves toward them in conformity with the dignity of persons and their solidarity.

Modesty protects the mystery of persons and their love. It encourages patience and moderation in loving relationships; it requires that the conditions for the definitive giving and commitment of man and woman to one another be fulfilled. Modesty is decency. It inspires one’s choice of clothing. It keeps silence or reserve where there is evident risk of unhealthy curiosity. It is discreet.

There is a modesty of the feelings as well as of the body. It protests, for example, against the voyeuristic explorations of the human body in certain advertisements, or against the solicitations of certain media that go too far in the exhibition of intimate things. Modesty inspires a way of life which makes it possible to resist the allurements of fashion and the pressures of prevailing ideologies…

Christian purity requires a purification of the social climate. It requires of the communications media that their presentations show concern for respect and restraint. Purity of heart brings freedom from widespread eroticism and avoids entertainment inclined to voyeurism and illusion.

Women who dance, unclothed, to incite excitement and lust are not lauded in Scripture.  Christ says:

But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Matt 5:28

and He also tells us:

But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

“Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!  Matt 18:6-7

And the fact remains that Carrie Prejean removed her clothing for money (topless photos), mutilated herself so the world would think more highly of her body (implants, paid for by the pageant) and spends a good portion of her day concentrating on her outward appearance.

How can we share the Gospel of Christ with any credibility when people like Miss Prejean are propped up as model Christians?  What a joke.  (Note: I am not saying Miss Prejean is not a Christian.  I have no idea about that.  I am saying that it does not appear that she is manifesting any of the fruits of the Holy Spirit and her actions would recommend against her being a role model.)

Call me when they book Susan Boyle, who spent her life caring for her aging parents before finally showcasing her (clothed) talent to the world.