{"id":761,"date":"2009-04-23T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/04\/carrie-prejean-it-wasnt-what-god-wanted-for-me-that-night-updated.html"},"modified":"2009-04-23T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T12:09:00","slug":"carrie-prejean-it-wasnt-what-god-wanted-for-me-that-night-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/04\/carrie-prejean-it-wasnt-what-god-wanted-for-me-that-night-updated.html","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Prejean: “It wasn’t what God wanted for me that night” — UPDATED"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those who may have missed it, here’s Carrie Prejean and Matt Lauer, chatting on TODAY: <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Ms. PREJEAN: I knew at that moment after I had answered the question, I knew that I was not going to win because of my answer.<\/p>\n

LAUER: Because you had spoken from your heart.<\/p>\n

Ms. PREJEAN: Because I had spoken from my heart, from my beliefs and for my God.<\/p>\n

LAUER: Well, OK, so let me ask you this. So if I were to\u2014and I won’t ask you. But if I were to ask you the very same question right now and say you get a do-over on this, how badly do you want to win that title? Would you have answered it differently?<\/p>\n

Ms. PREJEAN: No, I wouldn’t have answered it differently. I think that the way that I answered it, you know, might have been offensive to people, and I said in no offense to anybody, I did not want to offend anybody. But I think with that question specifically, it’s not about being politically correct. For me it was being biblically correct.<\/p>\n

LAUER: He says he hopes this doesn’t usher in an era where contestants are subjectively judged on religious or moral or political beliefs.<\/p>\n

Ms. PREJEAN: And I think it’s unfortunate that a lot of pageant girls, you know, they have the pressure. Like Claudia Jordan said\u2014she was one of the judges, she was great. She said that, you know, I should have been more in the middle, I shouldn’t have given a specific answer. But that goes against what I stand for. And when I’m asked a specific question, I’m going to give a specific answer. I’m not going to stand in the middle. I’m going to take one side or the other.<\/p>\n

LAUER: Carrie, you came so close.<\/p>\n

Ms. PREJEAN: And I am\u2014I am so proud of myself and I have so many people that are so proud of me. And it wasn’t what God wanted for my life that night.<\/p>\n

— Miss California Carrie Prejean<\/a>, interviewed by Matt Lauer,<\/div>\n
after losing the Miss USA pageant because she voiced her opposition to gay marriage. <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

UPDATE:<\/b> Evidently, one of the judges has now received death threats<\/a>, as a result of something she wrote on her blog about this controversy. All this, over a beauty pageant??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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