Her affirmation of the Creator’s objective, verifiable, public, and liberating norm for married life in reply to a homosexual “marriage” question from judge Perez Hilton helped make Carrie Prejean the “most famous runner-up in Miss USA history,” asserts the infamous, fair, and balanced Fox News.com.

But what was that blonde girl thinking?

There she was . . . publicly proclaiming foundational moral truth about marriage. So tyrannical.

There she was . . . taking a social stand that places her at the philosophical center of the American experiment in liberty and unalienable rights under God. So extreme.

There she was . . . daring to resist mass-marketed peer pressure and the unbending demands of tolerance. So rebellious.  

In all fairness, let us ask: Who does the uppity individual Miss Prejean think she is, brazenly resisting the secularist status quo?

And for all we know she’s pro-life. That would fit the profile. Speaking of profiles, that “Right-Wing Extremism” report from the Department of Homeland Security, headed up by Janet Napolitano, couldn’t have been more timely. 

Who now can doubt that the American people need to be educated and prepared to allow the federal government to deal with blonde bombshells, free-thinking individuals, constitutionalists, and other potential terrorists at large in the forward-looking land of change?

It’s no accident: Only last week we had those Tea Parties. And now this pageant. Who knows what might be coming down the pike?

Yes, there is much to consider in the defense of America. Meanwhile, here’s an exclusive interview with Carrie Prejean at the aforementioned Fox website.

More from Rick Pearcey at The Pearcey Report and Pro-Existence.

“CNN’s Anderson Cooper should have his dirty, little gutter mouth washed out with soap,” writes Joseph Farah. ”Then he should be fired.” Farah is responding to Cooper’s use of the word “Tea-bagging” to describe the nationwide Tea Party rallies of April 15. 

While lining up for or against the comments made by Cooper, let us note a strategic point: The liberal secularist mindset lacks an adequate basis for objective norms not just in regard to right and wrong, but also in regard to epistemology (theory of knowledge). This is a major contributor to the breakdown of journalism today. (Those who want to pursue this argument might take a look at The Dust of Death, by Os Guinness, and He Is There and He Is Not Silent, by Francis Schaeffer.)

These factors united in perhaps one of the most unfortunate episodes in erstwhile journalistic practice in recent memory when Cooper expressed on-air a profound hatred for the Tea Party movement by “jokingly” describing it in terms appropriate to that “progressive,” dehumanizing squalor known as the homosexual movement. 

Homosexuals as broken creatures made in the image of God (as we all are, that is, broken but also noble) are better than the worldview embraced by their cadres of leadership. A truly humane and liberated civilization affirms their ontic dignity even while challenging their ethical pain and brokeness. This is an “up from barbarism” distinction that applies across the board to all of us — and it is made possible on the basis of verifiable information from a knowable and rational Creator. That’s the kind of Creator referenced in our Founding documents, with their roots in Judeo-Christian thoughtforms.

Not only is what Cooper said deserving of ethical condemnation, but it also reveals a principial breakdown between journalism and urinalism, where there no longer is a line of demarcation between facts and propaganda, between reporting and demonization, between knowledge and Goebbels. 

Using insider gutter language to demonize political opposition is part and parcel of the fascist, liberal, statist, and secularist playbook these days. It bespeaks a form of cultural pollution in play with special viciousness since the demonization of Judge Robert Bork when in 1987 he was nominated to the Supreme Court. 

On display here is not just the weakness and inherent destructiveness of the homosexual worldview — not just personally but also in its impact on societal foundations – but also the desperation of establishment media and other elites who rightly perceive a real threat to their secularist and statist agenda.

The need for progress rooted not in vain and hurtful philosophy but in that vision displayed so brilliantly and courageously by our Founding Fathers is more apparent than ever. That, at its core, is the profound hope energizing the Tea Party movement. Hence the bared fangs of those on the wrong side of unalienable rights, life, liberty, happiness, and the Creator from whom those rights derive.

Mr. Cooper has spoken, and his own words condemn him. This much seems clear: Either he is in the wrong line of work, or the line of work his is in is not journalism.

More from Rick Pearcey at The Pearcey Report and Pro-Existence.

In the mail this week arrived Rules for Radicals, a “pragmatic primer for realistic radicals,” written by Saul Alinsky and published in 1971.

What’s striking, immediately, about this book is that Alinsky at the outset acknowledges his debt to the “very first radical,” who turns out to be none other than: “Lucifer.” This appears on the page preceding the table of contents.

The problem for Obama, who famously asserts that he is a “Christian,” is that he appears to be in significant debt to the thinking and tactics of this man Saul Alinsky (as is noted here by an Obama opponent and here by a supporter).

The challenge for Obama — if he wants to be understood as an authentic Christian — is that the Lordship of Christ applies to the whole of life, including the tactics of political and social change one employs.

Methods matter far more than some people appear to realize (this challenge applies with equal force to the so-called religious right, let us say in fairness). “Thy will be done on earth as it is done in Heaven” is not a relativistic option up for vote on Capitol Hill. To be tossed aside if electoral results or fundraising pressures require.

How can an Obama, or any public figure claiming to be an authentic follower of Jesus of Nazareth, also embrace the spirit of one who is the intellectual, moral, and worldview antithesis of this same Jesus, this true Messiah verified in history?

So what’s going on? Is Obama a hypocrite, a manipulator? Deeply confused? Or was Alinsky simply hyping his book for street cred and publishing attention?

Cross-posted at Pro-Existence.

Lighting a candle, on the side of a bus:

Nurse Caroline Petrie has been suspended and could even be struck off. What was her offence? Did she turn up drunk? Did she dispense the wrong medicine or forget to empty a bedpan? Was she knocking out prescription drugs to the local pusher?

Perhaps she was guilty of neglect, of deliberate cruelty, or of practising a bit of freelance euthanasia.

No. Her ‘crime’ was to offer to say a prayer for one old lady on the ward. It’s what we used to call an act of Christian charity.

But that was enough to bring her to the attention of the ‘diversity’ nazis at the North Somerset Primary Care Trust. . . .

“So what is so heinous about Mrs. Petrie praying for her patients?,” asks columnist Richard Littlejohn. “The truth is that Christianity forms no part of the ‘diversity’ agenda.”

Yes, that is the ugly, fanged truth about the “diversity is our strength” mantra and its empire of enforcers.

And that’s why wherever “diversity” is god and the accepted state religion, Christians and Christianity must be liquidated. They are at the top of the list of threats to the established order of imposed tolerance. No verifiable information from our true Creator can be allowed inside the palace gates to challenge the status quo.

This kind of cruelty is transnational. It holds not just for England, but also for any nation in the grip of a dehumanizing and intolerant secularism, including the United States.

Secularism is a failed and dehumanizing program. Resistance in the name of God and man, freedom and dignity, is essential, lest “diversity” covers a multitude of sickness and pain. We may need more humane nurses than you could ever imagine.

Cross-posted at Pro-Existence, the blog of The Pearcey Report.