I Am Not Really Sure If…

I consider this surprising, expected or to expected to be true.

It doesn’t seem like there is any chance this is a “fake tape”.  Really, I don’t care if she or anyone else filmed themselves having sex.  If you have a camera and wanna do it?  Go right ahead.  Just don’t ask to borrower my Hi-Def camera.  The real issue to me is that she pretended this did not exist.  She behaved like she was a pure young woman.  And when people asked questions?  She got breast implants, the supporters on the right thought, “well, why is that a crime?”  Fair enough.  I think a woman’s choice to get implants is exactly that, her decision.  I do not think it is particular evil or some great sin.  Though, often the people who are opposed to gay marriage are also not fond of people playing up their sex appeal.  But they let it slight.

Then it turned out she posed for racy pictures.  Again?  After a slight pause, the right lept to her defense.  And personally?  Yeah, I don’t care if she posed for racy pictures.  I don’t think doing so makes one a particularly bad person.  But watching the right fall all over itself-watching Fox promote Carrie and her message?  Emphasizing her traditional Christian beliefs.  This wasn’t really that bad.

But now?  We see that for all her portrayals of being a young virtuous Christian woman that she wasn’t being that wholesome.  If she was upfront about this stuff?  If she and her supporters had not played up this scenario about this wholesome young woman through whom God was speaking?  Who tried to sue the Pageant (for, among other things, religious discrimination) until she found out they knew about a little tape (that even porn websites considered to racy to put online?!) she made?

The silence is deafening.  She apparently found that line they cannot cross.  And the reaction from her opponents?  Well, mostly loud laughter and insults.  I don’t really agree with the name calling.  But I do understand the frustration behind it.  I get the people reveling in her humiliation.  I think it would be better to calmly address the hypocrisy, without sex jokes and so on.  I also think the right needs to rethink their response on this.  I have witnessed self identified conservative Christians trying to pin this on “vile gays” and claiming this is just what liberals do (yeah, conservatives would never dredge up private sexual activities as weapons against people they disagree with.  Never, ever).  She screwed up, liberals actually stayed pretty mum on this.  They could have released this at any time.

Frankly?  I hope this puts an end to having to hear from her ever again.

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