This detail in the reports about the seven other sex tapes and 30 additional “salacious” photos—so many youthful mistakes!—kind of makes me feel bad for Carrie Prejean…

Some of the new sexy photographs that have been unearthed Prejean allegedly took herself, of her own reflection in a mirror, alternately topless and completely naked.

Carrie Prejean is young, beautiful and not very bright. And she wasn’t politically active until she gave a convoluted and inaccurate answer to a question about same-sex marriage at the Miss USA pageant. Here’s the answer that launched a hundred billion blog post. From her response it’s clear that Prejean believed same-sex marriage was already legal in all 50 states:

“I think it’s great that Americans are able to choose one way or the other. We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. And, you know what, in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman, no offense to anybody out there. But that’s how I was raised and I believe that it should be between a man and a woman.”

Carrie thought it was great that Americans were free to choose between same-sex and opposite marriage—we’re not, of course, but she thought we were—but she personally believed that marriage should be between a man and a woman. I can live with that. In fact that’s all gay people really want. Gay people should be free to marry and other people should be free to believe that our same-sex marriages are wrong because their religion forbids it or because that’s how they were raised or because they just think it’s icky. Just because same-sex marriage is legal doesn’t mean that everyone is required to approve. Interracial marriage is legal despite the disapproval of some; inter-faith marriage is legal despite the strong and sometimes violent disapproval of most religious traditions; divorce is legal despite the disapproval of Jesus Christ himself and despite being forbidden by the Roman Catholic Church. Gay people want the same deal interracial couples, inter-faith couples, and divorced-and-remarried couples all have now: our marriages should be legal even if some people disapprove.

Anyway, back to Prejean: I thought Perez Hilton went too far when he labeled Prejean a bitch for her response to his question. But I quickly came around to Perez’s position—she is bitch—after Prejean leapt into bed with Maggie Gallagher and the National Organization for Marriage. (Did you know that Gallagher had a child out of wedlock? And that she’s currently in an inter-faith marriage?) It seemed like a transparent effort on Prejean’s part to cash in, to parlay her loss at the Miss USA pageant into a career as a spokesmodel for the religious right. Prejean’s sudden passion for anti-gay politicking seemed insincere and opportunistic—she hadn’t been publicly religious, politically active, or rabidly homophobic until after the pageant—and that’s why she drew the scorn of mean-spirited bloggers everywhere.

And now we have proof that the person Prejean pretended to be after that pageant—the good Christian girl with a strong moral code who was chosen by God to stick it to the homos—doesn’t jibe with the person she was before the pageant, i.e. a highly sexual and sexually active young woman with breast implants and a string of ex-boyfriends to her name. Carrie Prejean was not the very model of modern right-wing Christian conservatism that she pretended to be to ingratiate herself with the likes of Maggie Gallagher. She was an average young American woman, a little prettier and dimmer than most, with sexual urges and desires and agency. She was just another young woman aware of her own erotic power, a young woman with a digital camera, another young woman sexting her boyfriend because it turned her on to turn him on.

This aspect of Prejean’s life—her ownership, control and delight in her own sexuality—is newsworthy because Prejean was working to deny others the same ownership and control over their sexualities. Prejean endorsed discrimination against others based on sexual expression and that invited scrutiny of her own sexual expression. Prejean wasn’t exposed as a “hobby pornographer,” as Dave put it, because she believes that same-sex marriage is wrong; the woman who replaced Prejean as Miss California also opposes same-sex marriage and no one has pried into her private life. (I can’t even recall her name.) Prejean was exposed because the only justification she was able to give for her opposition to equal rights for gays and lesbians was her good Christian upbringing (her parents had an ugly divorce), the way her Christian values shaped her worldview, and her moral superiority. None of that stood up to scrutiny.

And now the gig is up: Carrie’s new friends—her hater friends—are dropping her and scrubbing her from their websites. Her book tour ended before it began and the only thing anyone is going to remember about her book is that Prejean—with all her sex tapes and dirty pictures—condemned pornography and urged young women not to show too much skin.

And honestly—now that this is all over—I feel kind of sorry for Prejean. She thought she was being attacked by All Gays and Lesbians Everywhere (AGLE) after one gay dude, Perez Hilton, called her name. And then Maggie and NOM and the conservative Christian movement offered her a chance to get back at the homos and make herself a huge pile of money in the process. The praised her, advised her, and pretended to be her friends. All she had to do was play the martyr and tell her story. But when her real story got out—when those pictures and videos got out—Maggie and NOM and her new friends dropped her. Perez abused her, Maggie used her, and now she’s done.

65 replies on “Feeling Sorry for Carrie Prejean”

  5. The C-word got what karma prescribed. No need to feel sorry for her at all. She got what was coming.just like any other bigot with their pants down.

    Dan, you had to be full when you wrote this. She’s an ass who deserves what she gets. “The biggest mistake of my life” has turned into “the biggest 8 mistakes of my life*.” Apparently she’s a slow learner.

    *so far, and counting

  6. “Sex tape tips from Carrie Prejean
    Hi, I made a sex tape! Eight, actually! And you can too! Praise the lord!”
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg…

    Excerpt:
    “You want your scene to look good for your massively sexually frustrated boyfriend, right? Well, candles just get in the way of the action, and unless you’re using an infrared camera, there’s simply no way candles — even, like, a million little votives from Wal-Mart that smell like vanilla pudding and hurt in a really yummy way when you drip them on your thigh and moan — will illuminate the important stuff, like your sequined heels, a John Mayer poster, or the giant stuffed Pooh bear propping up the wine coolers on the bedside table…”

  8. Dammit. Now you’ve made ME feel kinda sorry for the silly bint. DAMN YOU DAN SAVAGE!
    (No really, I don’t mean that. Come back! You could even do 2 podcasts a week. C’mon, whaddayasay? Thanks!)

  9. @5 Judah: Not exactly. Karla Faye Tucker was executed when W was governor in Texas, and the CCs actively expressed contempt for her apparently quite sincere conversion and good works.

    I think the sincerity is actually a problem for them. CCs prefer fuck-ups BECAUSE they are hypocrites. Wait for Prejean’s big comeback…

  10. @59/Judah’s comment: this is a tough one to say. NOM does not really hold favor with the CCs either… they are just on the same team. NOM is distancing themselves from CP because they realize how it plays in the media but CCs don’t play well in the media anyway. (hence teabaggers!)

    CP’s favor with the CCs depends on two things: 1) is the sin struggle CP faces a “normal” and “good” struggle, and 2) is she being completely honest now. the struggle is a normal and good one, by their def. it is not killing your kids, for instance. even being gay is considered a fairly “good” sin these days, as long as you want to repent. but on issue 2, is she being honest now? the new tapes could play either way. but since CP was not forthcoming about ALL her numerous past mistakes out there, it will likely not play well for her.

    the way she needed to play this was by saying she used to be a sinner, and was caught up in the ways of the world. it wasn’t, however, until the pageant that she was forced to decide for herself which way she would lead her life: continuing with her own hidden sins, or embrace the ways of the world entirely. but she chose to be a spokesperson without being entirely honest, which is something that doesn’t play well with the CCs. note: she can still come to the alter, repent, and win some favor back, though.

    i don’t feel sorry for her. she does come across as both mean-spirited and as not fully understanding the issues she is attempting to address.

  11. You know what? This is someone who was effectively competing for a PR job as a spokesmodel representing her state. As either Miss California or Miss USA, her job was to be, among other things, articulate and at least pass for informed. It’s a “scholarship pageant,” remember?

    Her state had just gone through one of the highest profile statewide referendums in USA history, and it has been documented that far more money was spent on that one question than any other ballot issue in US history. It was all over the state and national news.

    One of the judges was not only gay, but a gay gossip columnist and rabble-rouser.

    It was impossible that she was not going to get asked that question or a similar one at some point in her pageant career. It should have been a pre-scripted, wholesomeness-approved, poised and effortless thing to do to answer it with the same set of “I have values, really, but this is a sensitive issue, and I love people. And puppies!” kind of non-answer that her replacement gave.

    Read her answer again. She’s in a PR job, auditioning for an even bigger PR job. She gave that answer to a question she had to see coming.

    And she hasn’t proven to be even remotely more articulate or prepared since. That Larry King interview alone proves that the pageant was right in canning her and would be justified in trying to erase any record that they ever thought she should have been allowed in it.

  13. Here’s the latest written by that hypocritical bitch, Maggie Gallagher, titled “After Carrie.”

    http://www.nationformarriage.org/site/ap…{949052D6-3F10-4FAA-9D23-B1B33430E5B9}&notoc=1

    Apparently it matters not, what indiscretions one does throughout their life, just so long as they’re heterosexual and against those gays.

    Fuck, the hypocrisy and self-righteousness makes me want to puke!

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