While we're at it...
Let's not forget where we are. This is hollywoodgossip.com--not too great a place for serious discussions. I hope nobody is actually taking the posting of these photos and the mock-moralizing captions seriously. If this childish attempt on the parts of people frightened and intimidated by Carrie Prejean's honesty and courage to discredit her by discrediting her faith weren't so patently mean-spirited it would be quite amusing.
> Why does coming out against gay marriage automatically make
> Carrie Prejean into a Christian role model?
It doesn't. It makes her a Christian expressing a particular belief on a particular subject--a reasonable one, but still a viewpoint. It's natural that those in agreement will want to make the most of her public image and prominence to amplify the viewpoint. A role model is not the same thing.
And it's not just conservative Christians, though they are probably the ones most inclined to be vociferous about it.
California's Proposition 8 passed, if narrowly. The state does not have a population of over 50% "conservative Christians."
> Does stating that one belief - which no one denies she
> has a right to hold - instantly excuse her from
> following biblical values/passages in other aspects of life?
Of course it doesn't. The problem in this is not her failure to "follow... Biblical passages." It is your clearly uninformed conclusion that she is.
Before you conclude these things, be sure you know the whole story. Extracting a passage here and there from the Bible that seems, out of context, to support that conclusion is bogus. Not that I'm drawing a parallel, just an illustration, but the 9/11 extremists justified their behavior in part by believing the parts of the Koran (spelling?) that suited them and conveniently ignoring the ones that don't. There are plenty of people, Christians and others, who indulge that kind of selectivity, and it's dangerous.
