I’ve done a lot of wrong stuff in my past and have been hypocritical myself plenty of times. I trust that when I’ve repented, that God is not still holding those things against me. As I expect God’s forgiveness and mercy for my wrongs, I’m willing to extend the same to others, not holding their pasts against them if they show they’ve changed.

What Carrie Prejean has experienced I’m sure has been a sobering, self-examining process for her. The question she was asked at the pageant could very well have been her wake-up call from God. Time will tell. But I’m willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. And I bet that if the media had not hyped up her answer to Perez Hilton’s question, she would’ve faded into the background as all runner-ups in such pageants do–and those photos would never have been released. So I think it’s obvious she is being persecuted for her answer and I believe she has handled it well considering the situation.

When I think about her situation, I’m reminded of saints in the Bible who God used in spite of themselves. Jephthah hung out on a regular with wicked men (Judges 11:3), but God used him to deliver Israel. Samson was a whoremongering fornicator, but God used him mightily to defeat the Philistines (Judges 16:1). Both of these men were mentioned in the “hall of faith” in Hebrews even though their lives were a bit messy.

I’m also reminded of Peter who many years into his ministry was confronted by Paul for his hypocrisy when he snubbed Gentiles to please the Jews (Galatians 2:11-14) but that didn’t negate all he had done or was going to do for the Lord. John Mark proved to be unreliable in the ministry and forsook it for awhile and Paul rejected him, causing a rift between him and Barnabas (Acts 15:37-39), but years later Paul considered Mark “profitable” to his ministry (2 Timothy 4:11).

I’m not trying to justify Carrie’s sins, but I don’t think it’s just a coincidence that she has represented well the Christian position against gay marriage on the world stage. The way everything has worked in her favor in the midst of persecution can’t be anything but the hand of God, in my opinion.

“Sorry, but if I want sexual morality, I’m not getting it from the Old Testament.”

And exactly what do you know about morals, when your train of thought is immoral.

You’re so typical of atheists who are so bent on trying to find fault with the Bible that you overlook the truth.

First of all, the beautiful thing about the Bible is that it shows that all of us as humans, including those of us who follow God, are flawed. But, even in the midst of our being flawed and just downright messed up, God is willing to welcome us if we acknowledge our evil and are willing to turn our backs on our evil. No one’s perfect, including you. At least the writers of the Bible are honest enough to reveal how flawed we really are without sugarcoating the truth.

Secondly, if you read the whole scripture of Genesis 19, you’ll see that Lot promised he would bring out his daughters to the perverts and claimed that his daughters were virgins. We find out a few verses later that his daughters were married because Lot went to his two sons-in-law to try to persuade them to leave Sodom with the rest of the family. It was never his intention to deliver his daughters to them. Lot was just stalling the perverts to buy some time. That’s why he lied to the sodomites about bringing his virgin daughters (who weren’t virgins) out to them as he tried to shut the door in the sodomites’ faces.

Your atheistic deceptions have blinded you to the truth. If you’re not willing to get your sexual mores from the Bible, which shows us the benefits of sexual purity, is it safe to say you’ll get your sexual morals from atheistic perverts like the late Alfred Kinsey–as the majority of Western society does? He’s part of the reason why STDs really blew up in the 20th century. Maybe that’s what you prefer.

Such an upright and moral man, who offered to give his daughters to the crowd of sexual deviants…

Sorry, but if I want sexual morality, I’m not getting it from the Old Testament.

This whole incident reminds me of the song out by Fireflight called “Unbreakable”:

“Where are the people that accused me?
The ones who beat me down and used me. …

Now I am unbreakable–it’s unmistakeable
No one can touch me
Nothing can stop me!”

I hope her resilience in this situation remains steady.

“…and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.”
- 2 Pet. 2:7-9