Leave Carrie Prejean Alone

The moral brigade is out, and they are back in the building. But I am going to have to don a big "so what" to their take on Miss California, AKA Carrie Prejean. First, if a contestant is going to lose the Miss USA crown, then it should be over something important like the talent competition, not over her views on same-sex marriages. After all, Barack Obama and Joe Biden aren't exactly gay marriage activists, either, but I don't think that Perez Hilton, the pageant judge who posed the question, trotted on down to the polls and voted for the opposition over it, either.

But in terms of those photos and the latest question of the week, which is, "Is Miss California a hypocrite and should we banish her to her own desert island?" the answer is unequivocally no. First of all, the pictures circulating on the Internet basically show her back, and backs aren't that scandalous this season. And second of all, she is wearing about the same amount of clothes that actresses wear on the red carpet or that some women wear to the mall.

Should more pictures surface that would make Larry Flynt roll his eyes in ecstasy and salivate, then the lesson is clear: Be careful what you do when you are young, drunk and crazy. It could come back to haunt you. If they are on par with lingerie ads in the (still existent) Sunday papers or a Victoria's Secret fashion show, then I'd like to give the moral police a big whatever and drop them off in an Amish farming community.