I had two very different things to say about this particular Jeff Fecke post. In their own way, they rated two separate posts:

That out of the way, it’s time for me to defend Carrie Prejean.

As you may have heard, former Miss California USA-slash-anti-gay activist Carrie Prejean

“Anti-gay activist”?

Well, no.  She’s a beauty pageant contestant who was asked her views about gay marriage.  She answered – honestly, and with view she shares with the majority of the American people.  The only thing for which she’s an “activist” (I’d prefer “accidental celebrity”) is being targeted by “gay activists”.  Unless simply believeing something makes one an “activist”, anyway.  I’d say she’s more of a “quit bashing people for differing with the showbiz majority” activist – but nobody asked me.

She was attacked at first by a “gay activist”, irritating celebrity snarkblogger Perez Hilton.

But I digress. Sorta.

…has a sex tape that’s gotten loose, and perhaps “several more” in the hopper. (No, I’m not linking to stories; keep reading, you’ll see why.) This is, of course, totes hilarious, as Prejean was trying to build a career around moralizing while still being a normal human with feet of clay.

I’m always amused by liberals who say with great assurance that “kids’ll have sex, there’s nothing we can do about it!”, and then become deeply moral about the subject when someone who gets uppity about religious Christian faith actually does it.

Nothing about “preaching morality”, and especially about professing Christian faith, implies belief that one is “perfect”.  Most of us believe there’s only been one perfect Christian so far.

But – mirabile dictu, and almost alone among leftybloggers I’ve grown ever-more depressed to read – Fecke gets it:

Now, yes, Prejean has been involved in moralizing. And here’s where I’m supposed to say that she has this coming, having the temerity to be a sexual being while criticizing others for their sexuality [which, of course, she’s not – she’s opposed to gay marriage as a political issue, not to gay people being,  y’know, gay.  A minor point, but words do matter – Ed.]. But you know what? I’m having trouble believing that. Because while Prejean’s opinions on same-sex marriage may be wrong, it doesn’t therefore follow that it’s okay for someone she trusted to break that trust by sharing private videos with the public…You see, it’s like sex. If you and your girlfriend are having consensual sex, that’s fine. If you invite your buddy in unannounced to start having sex with your girlfriend too, without clearing it with her? That’s rape. No, selling smutty pictures of your ex-girlfriend to TMZ isn’t rape. But it’s rape’s evil, less-reviled cousin, and it’s in the same moral ballpark.

The sun turned blue tomorrow, gravity is lifting me up, and I’m agreeing with Fecke.

But don’t summon the dogs of the apocalypse; all it takes is to be a human with some modestly sane priorities.

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