Robert G. Yetman, Jr.

Miss California and the Queen

The 58^th Miss USA pageant took place in Las Vegas last Sunday, and, as we all know, it turned out to be quite an evening.  In the final analysis, that which famously transpired on that telecast speaks volumes about traditional America and the militant gay agenda, in general, and about two of each side’s representatives, in particular.  On the one hand, you have someone who’s about as inoffensive as inoffensive can be as a person who appears to hold traditional values, and on the other, you have an example of an aggressive proponent of unnatural lifestyles who sees no limit to the extent to which his wrath and obscenely foul behavior should be allowed to stretch when someone in 2009 America dares to object to unnatural marriage.   

Among the sorry bunch of telecast judges (is it me, or does it seem like pageant judges used to be much more outstanding than they are nowadays?) was hidden a perpetually offensive little worm by the name of Perez Hilton (born Mario Lavandeira, Jr.).  Mr. (Ms.?) Hilton has carved out an apparently successful but profoundly odd living as a “celebrity blogger;” he’s known to be a rather unpleasant person, even by those of his own ilk, and has unapologetically taken tabloid “journalism” to new lows.  His unsavory professional practices are many in number, and include posting copyrighted materials on his website, and he generally lives in the realm of the prurient – sex, sex, and more sex.  Hilton has raised the ire of many in the very gay community of which he’s a charter member by engaging in the practice of regularly “outing” well-known people he claims are homosexuals.  Actor Bruce Vilanch, himself openly gay, has disparagingly said of Hilton’s outing agenda: “What purpose does it serve?  These people like Perez Hilton are professional homosexuals.  They are gay people for a living.”

How fortunate, then, for self-professed Christian and Miss USA contestant Carrie Prejean that this professional sodomite was serving as her inquisitor when it became time for the obligatory Q&A portion of the pageant.  When asked by Hilton if she believed that every state should legalize same-sex marriage (which I happen to think was an out-of-bounds question for a pageant like this anyway), her response was ridiculously reasonable and respectful.  It went like this:

“Well, I think it’s great that Americans are able to choose one or the other.  Um, we live in a land that you can choose same sex marriage or opposite marriage and, you know what, in my country and in, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman.  No offense to anybody out there.  But that’s how I was raised and that’s how I think it should be between a man and a woman.”

For that response, sodomite Hilton reportedly gave Prejean a zero score for her Q&A, and that was that; her entire effort at becoming Miss USA evaporated as quickly as you can say, “Leviticus 18:22.”

Hilton, as we know, was not finished with Prejean.  He subsequently went on ABC News, referred to her as a “dumb bitch,” and felt the need to say during a later interview on MSNBC that when he called her a bitch, he was thinking of an even more disgusting, anti-female pejorative that’s so bad I can’t even allude to it here.  How nice.  Not only does Hilton rob Prejean of the title, but he goes on to humiliate and insult her, all in the name of propagating filth and persecuting traditional values.

I will admit to being a little torn here.  Hilton is a lowlife and what happened to Prejean is beyond rotten.  However, Hilton has raised a tide of anger at himself, his enablers in the press (when is Larry King going to check out, anyway?), and most significantly, the militant gay movement that has admittedly gained bits of traction in recent years.  Gay rights activists with any sense at all have to be furious at Hilton.  In the end, Prejean, in her off-the-cuff but acutely honest answer, inadvertently struck a blow for average America, and we were all provided with a wonderfully transparent look at the true nature of the indecency against which the decent are pitted.

Robert G. Yetman, Jr.  Editor-At-Large www.ChristianMoney.com

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Does Our President Truly Love Our Country?

Apparently I didn’t realize just how absolutely correct I was in my thinking when I said out loud and off-handedly on election night that “Barack Obama won’t be my president.”  It appears that based on his recent “world tour,” he really isn’t the President of the United States in both spirit and letter, but something else entirely; it seems instead that he is the President of the Whole World, and therefore has no inherent need to further our interests in any form or fashion on the world stage.  In fact, you don’t have to listen to much of what he said during his travels to get the idea that he doesn’t think much of America at all…considering that he is, after all, its leader.

Obama didn’t get out there and shout epithets at his (theoretically) home country, but that would be too obvious, even for him.  Instead, we are treated to everything from his surprising gesture of bowing to the Saudi King, to essentially apologizing for us to Muslims in Turkey, to actually calling us “arrogant” in his recent speech delivered in France.  Quite clearly, Obama feels we have a lot for which to be ashamed, and feels that whenever he travels abroad, it should be in a spirit of contrition that naturally evolves from the unforgiveable sin of being, well, American.  I know there are a lot of people who seem perfectly fine with a president who feels the need to travel the world with a notable spirit of inclusiveness; I also know that in the same speech in which he called us arrogant, he also chided Europeans for a palpable anti-Americanism that he noted as being “insidious.”  However, while I agree that anti-Americanism is rampant throughout the world (could it be any more obvious?)…much of it of late engendered by our gall in actually wanting to defend ourselves from Islamo-fascist terrorism…I feel no need to temper that opinion by condemning my own patriotism in a pathetic display of “we are the world-ism.”  I don’t believe that my patriotism, or that of anyone I know, is “arrogant.”  I think it’s just patriotism…but exhibiting patriotism at all, at any quantifiable level, is now by definition an act of arrogance.

By itself, much about Obama’s demeanor when he interacts with foreign leaders and peoples suggests, at best, a tempered enthusiasm for America…but when you go on to additionally consider the other disquieting things we’ve seen emanate from the Obama camp in the past, such as his historical adherence to a pastor who is happy to shout “God damn America” from the pulpit, as well as his marriage to a woman who said during the campaign that she only recently found her pride in being an American, you can’t help but get a clear picture of someone who seems to hold this country in some measure of disregard.

It’s difficult to ignore the preponderance of the evidence, as they say in court. 

In Obama’s America, if you are one who loves his country and seems himself as a patriot, there’s something flawed about you by definition.  That’s partly why I know I’m not a participant in Obama’s America.  I view myself as a citizen of the world only in the most benign sense of that expression.  I am an American…among other things, a former U.S. Army soldier who was produced by the union of another former soldier and a former U.S. Navy sailor…and as such, I look with great disdain upon any representative of these United State of America, particularly when it’s the president, who ever does or says anything that diminishes the greatness, both present and historical, of our country.

Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor-At-Large www.ChristianMoney.com

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