A Defense of Carrie Prejean

The Anchoress has a great post about Carrie Prejean (Miss California USA) and the precautionary example she provides to any young woman who is thinking about having topless photos taken, as well as an excellent analysis of what has happened to free speech and freedom of thought in America. An excerpt:

In America, we should not be watching a person endure character assassination and the possible loss of livelihood because she has committed the sin of daring to hold a “politically incorrect” position.

Carrie Prejean was asked a question and she answered it. In America, once upon a time, the people who referred to themselves as “liberal” believed that one was entitled to one’s opinion and to full respect for it.

Currently in America, every diversity is celebrated except the diversity of thought. Sadly, some in the nation have decided that thuggery, rather than respectful, reasonable argument, is a more expedient means of persuasion. They think “agree, or be destroyed” is a legitimate argument, as is its flip-side; “shut up to be safe.”

Amen.

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