2009/04/27
Bento XVI e Carrie Prejean
Manuel Brás
O que têm Bento XVI e Carrie Prejean em comum?
Talvez mais do que parece.
Ambos foram insultados nos media e em público por defenderem convicções contrárias e até inconciliáveis com aquilo que interessa aos donos dos media.
O Papa Bento XVI foi insultado por questionar a eficácia absoluta do preservativo na propagação do HIV/SIDA e enfatizar a prioridade de mudar comportamentos, valorizando a abstinência e a fidelidade conjugal, ou seja evitando a promiscuidade sexual e comportamentos de risco.
Carrie Prejean, Miss Califórnia, quando questionada sobre os casamentos gay, disse o que pensava: que o casamento é entre um homem e uma mulher, o que gerou a fúria de quem lhe fez a pergunta e lhe fez perder o mais que provável galardão de Miss América.
Curiosamente, nem a um nem a outro posteriormente foi dada oportunidade, nos media mais importantes, de explicarem amplamente as suas convicções, como seria de esperar de quem se diz tolerante e aberto ao diálogo.
Já se percebeu que esta gente só é tolerante e aberta ao diálogo quando se diz aquilo que eles querem.
Quem se mete com eles apanha…
É a informação de qualidade…
Eis um resumo da polémica que pode ser encontrado em:
http://www.examiner.com/x-4848-Dallas-Protestant-Examiner%7Ey2009m4d20-Carrie-Prejean-defends-hetero-marriage-gets-called-names-by-Perez-Hilton
At the Miss America Pageant in Las Vegas on Sunday, Perez asked Carrie Prejean whether she thought all of the states should follow Vermont's ruling to legalize same-sex marriage. When she didn't give the answer he liked, he resorted to name-calling on his blog. According to Elena Garcia of the Christian Post, she said
"Well, I think it’s great that Americans are able to choose one or the other... We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage."
"And you know what, in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman," she continued. "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. Thank you very much."
Perez's later response, via blog video, reports Garcia
The Hollywood blogger called Prejean a "stupid b----" in the video and said he would have gone up on stage and snatched the tiara from her head if she had won Miss USA.
Hilton said if he was Miss California, he would have responded: "Hmm. Perez, that's a great question. That's a very hot topic in our country right now. And I think that is a question that each state should decide for themselves because that's how our forefathers designed our government."
He has since apologized for calling her names and said he would love to take her out for coffee to "talk."
Honestly, his kind of talk doesn't seem like her kind of talk. Even after the incident, she's graceful.
"It did cost me my crown," Carrie told Bush on his radio talk show. "I wouldn’t have had it any other way. I said what I feel. I stated an opinion that was true to myself and that’s all I can do."
"It is a very touchy subject and he is a homosexual and I see where he was coming from and I see the audience would’ve wanted me to be more politically correct," she added. "But I was raised in a way that you can never compromise your beliefs and your opinions for anything."
manuelbras@portugalmail.pt
O que têm Bento XVI e Carrie Prejean em comum?
Talvez mais do que parece.
Ambos foram insultados nos media e em público por defenderem convicções contrárias e até inconciliáveis com aquilo que interessa aos donos dos media.
O Papa Bento XVI foi insultado por questionar a eficácia absoluta do preservativo na propagação do HIV/SIDA e enfatizar a prioridade de mudar comportamentos, valorizando a abstinência e a fidelidade conjugal, ou seja evitando a promiscuidade sexual e comportamentos de risco.
Carrie Prejean, Miss Califórnia, quando questionada sobre os casamentos gay, disse o que pensava: que o casamento é entre um homem e uma mulher, o que gerou a fúria de quem lhe fez a pergunta e lhe fez perder o mais que provável galardão de Miss América.
Curiosamente, nem a um nem a outro posteriormente foi dada oportunidade, nos media mais importantes, de explicarem amplamente as suas convicções, como seria de esperar de quem se diz tolerante e aberto ao diálogo.
Já se percebeu que esta gente só é tolerante e aberta ao diálogo quando se diz aquilo que eles querem.
Quem se mete com eles apanha…
É a informação de qualidade…
Eis um resumo da polémica que pode ser encontrado em:
http://www.examiner.com/x-4848-Dallas-Protestant-Examiner%7Ey2009m4d20-Carrie-Prejean-defends-hetero-marriage-gets-called-names-by-Perez-Hilton
At the Miss America Pageant in Las Vegas on Sunday, Perez asked Carrie Prejean whether she thought all of the states should follow Vermont's ruling to legalize same-sex marriage. When she didn't give the answer he liked, he resorted to name-calling on his blog. According to Elena Garcia of the Christian Post, she said
"Well, I think it’s great that Americans are able to choose one or the other... We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage."
"And you know what, in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman," she continued. "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. Thank you very much."
Perez's later response, via blog video, reports Garcia
The Hollywood blogger called Prejean a "stupid b----" in the video and said he would have gone up on stage and snatched the tiara from her head if she had won Miss USA.
Hilton said if he was Miss California, he would have responded: "Hmm. Perez, that's a great question. That's a very hot topic in our country right now. And I think that is a question that each state should decide for themselves because that's how our forefathers designed our government."
He has since apologized for calling her names and said he would love to take her out for coffee to "talk."
Honestly, his kind of talk doesn't seem like her kind of talk. Even after the incident, she's graceful.
"It did cost me my crown," Carrie told Bush on his radio talk show. "I wouldn’t have had it any other way. I said what I feel. I stated an opinion that was true to myself and that’s all I can do."
"It is a very touchy subject and he is a homosexual and I see where he was coming from and I see the audience would’ve wanted me to be more politically correct," she added. "But I was raised in a way that you can never compromise your beliefs and your opinions for anything."
manuelbras@portugalmail.pt
Etiquetas: Bento XVI, Em Defesa da Vida, Manuel Brás
