I've been loosely watching the news the past few days and heard something that caught my attention:
- A girl is being persecuted for standing up for something she believes in. I just have two questions:

1: Who cares what she thinks about gay marriage really? She is Miss California, not our elected representative to the world. Her job is to go around and be a face at AIDS/HIV, breast and ovarian cancer charities. If you don't agree with her, then don't agree. If you agree, then agree. Do we really need to make her the center of a huge media frenzy?
2: Why is everyone acting silly in this?
1: The Pro Gay Marriage group: You say you fight for freedom of speech and the right to live your life as you want, yet seek to smear the reputation of a beauty pageant contestant. First off, low blow. You really hurt the conservative Christian world with that one... Second, leave it to the group that supports alternative lifestyles to condemn a girl for posing in her underwear...
2: The Christians: so many people rushed to make her a spokes model for Christianity, then dumped her when she was shown to have posed in her underwear.
-- A: Being on national TV in a bikini is much better? No offense, but the whole idea of beauty pageants goes against the idea of a Proverbs 31 women. Do we want kids in our churches to look up to Miss USA or a more Biblical role model?
-- B: Isn't Christianity about imperfect people following a perfect God? Why do we then throw people under the bus as soon as they mess up? What happened to restoration or forgiveness, or in this case, common sense? (She's a model. They pose in underwear. It happens.)

This whole issue is even sadder to me because it has captured our attention, not things that are actually important like the economy, swine flu, Israel, or China playing more games with the US at sea.