Posted on 11/15/2009 9:12:56 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Is it worse for a Republican to have been caught naked on camera or to support gay marriage? Meghan McCain weighs the hypocrisy of the Carrie Prejean scandal.
BY MEGHAN MCCAIN
If you’re a Republican, is it better to be in favor of gay marriage or to make a sex tape? That is the question. At least that’s the question that comes to mind after the reaction to the news that anti-gay marriage champion Carrie Prejean made a sex tape. After watching several of Prejean’s media appearances this week, it was not her incredibly uncomfortable threat to walk out on Larry King that had me most unnerved; it was actually her appearance on Sean Hannity's show. This was Prejean’s first stop on her book publicity tour, and when the sex tape came up, he proceeded to ask her if she was "in love with her boyfriend at the time that she made [it]." I’m sorry, why would being in love matter when it comes to filming yourself in a sexual context?
Frankly, I am sick of all the hypocrisy when it comes to sex and politics in this country—and that goes for all politicians, not just Republicans. Carrie Prejean claims making that tape was “the biggest mistake” of her life—it’s the same one that many other girls have made—but it has since come out that she may have made seven other sex tapes and posed for 30 nude photos.
So I want to send this message to my little sister and other women reading this right now: Making a sex tape is never acceptable. I don't care how in love you are with your boyfriend. Jennifer Lopez made a tape with her then-husband on their honeymoon and she is currently in a lawsuit to prevent it from being released. I am of the mind-set that you should never record anything in private that you wouldn't mind the whole world to see. Because somehow, some day, those images will find their way to the public.
I know I’ve learned my lesson after posting a now-notorious photograph of myself on Twitter—and I had all of my clothes on. So this is not a good message for Sean Hannity to send, that if you were in love with your boyfriend it is OK. These tapes and photographs can ruin your career and your credibility, but it’s the laissez faire attitude toward them that I find so upsetting.
I find it even more disturbing that as long as you oppose gay marriage, filming yourself having sex is taken more lightly. Does anyone else see the hypocrisy in this kind of thinking? And hypocrisy is something the Republican Party can’t afford to have right now as the GOP struggles to find its identity. As I said, we all make mistakes and I don't want to be too harsh on Carrie Prejean. She is only 22, after all, and a former Miss California USA, not a politician. And lest we forget, she feels the same way about gay marriage that our own president does.
The problem I have with my fellow Republicans is why gay marriage is the trump card in any situation. It seems that as long as you are against gay marriage, any scandal in your life can be overlooked or overcome. When you are in favor of it, however—and I have been very vocal about my support—that position defines you.
Sometimes I wonder if I were against marriage equality, whether it would make it easier for some Republicans to accept my place within this party. I have to constantly remind people of my pro-life, pro-small government stance because the only view that seems to matter is the fact that I believe my gay friends should have the same right to one of our founding ideals—that all men are created equal with certain inalienable rights. I think if Republicans truly believe in keeping government out of our lives—that should include not dictating who one can marry.
Many believe that it was Carrie Prejean’s anti-gay marriage views that cost her the Miss USA pageant earlier this year. My question is: When it comes to Republicans, is your position on gay marriage what determines your fate within the party?
Meghan McCain is a columnist for The Daily Beast. Originally from Phoenix, she graduated from Columbia University in 2007. She is a New York Times bestselling children's author, previously wrote for Newsweek magazine, and created the Web site mccainblogette.com.
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Great image!
We have a problem here. Megan McCain is acting as if people give a damn what she thinks again. Is she the 4th Dixie Chick, or what?
any time Meghan McCain wants to start her own life (instead of constantly commenting on what other people do)...that would be great.
er........Figuratively.
Meghan McCain doesn’t matter. She needs to just go away and take her RINO Daddy with her.
She’s a slut, just like her father...
The White Whaaaale!
THE WHITE WHAAAALE!!!
Better to be against gay marriage or make a sex tape? What a stupid question...makes no sense.
In addition, she is not an “anti-gay marriage champion.” She was asked a question and gave her position. She did not choose the question.
Weird.
She is as ignorant as she is stupid. Making a sex tape for private viewing has nothing to do with opposing to homosexual marriage.
It's laughable that the blob is preaching about sex tapes when she is the one talking about her “juicy butt” and shows pics of her fake boobs to arouse the male audience.
Hypocrisy is indeed the word, fatty and it is coming from you!
...when she admits to voting for John F'in Kerry in 2004.
WHY WHY WHY do we keep posting and legitimizing this freaking Meaghan McCain. She is nothing. She is used to mock us. When I met John McCain last week I almost whispered in his ear...GET YOUR DAUGHTER OUT OF THE SPOTLIGHT..THEY ARE USING HER..AS A FATHER, HOW CAN YOU LET THAT HAPPEN? She’s such an embarrassment. When I think of all the qualified, articulate Republican spokespeople..and then I see her, I want to throw rocks at my TV.
Sean Hannity never said this or anything even approaching that. He did say these things were coming out now to try to destroy Prejean all because she gave an answer the person who asked didn't agree with, and that we all have things in our past we are not proud of and wouldn't want made public, but at no time did he excuse this kind of behavior or imply that it was acceptable.
Embarrassingly ridiculous, Miss McCain.
As basically a libertarian (small l) I don’t care one way or the other about sex tapes. But she was under 18, so if you want to be consistent, like with the Girls Gone Wild! guys who were prosecuted for child porn for not checking ages or Tracy Lords illegal tapes, you have to demand the immediate arrest of Miss Prejean, her ex-boyfriend, whoever he “released” the tapes to, anyone who has received them since, all for producing, possessing and now distributing kiddy porn or you need to rethink your view of the modern world.
Why do kitties need scratching posts? ;)
Shoot. I usually don’t throw up this late at night. Love the Facepalm poster, though. That almost made it worth it.
Person 1 makes claim X
There is something objectionable about Person 1
Therefore claim X is false
...and target pratice. 
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