I Figured This Would Get More Hits if "Sex Tape" Were in the Headline

Ann Althouse makes a good point about Carrie Prejean's "sex tape", which allegedly consists of a then-teenage Prejean making a topless video of herself for a long-distance boyfriend. TMZ has been advertising that they have the tape, but haven't decided to show it, but Althouse brings up something important...

Teenager? Is TMZ threatening to post child pornography? In any case, what is it? Embarrassing topless nonsense?

...You know, what is even imperfect here? I don't see anything unChristian about displaying your breasts to a boyfriend that you love. It's just foolish to allow photographs to come into being. But it's not unChristian to be foolish. (Saint Paul said: "We are fools for Christ.")

Now, trying to destroy the young woman over political disagreement and tormenting her by threatening to invade the intimate space between her and her lost young love... I'll hazard to guess: That's not Christian.

As Althouse notes, TMZ's not claiming to be Christian, so they don't have to live up to those standards. But she's also right when she says Prejean's tape doesn't prove that she's not living up to her own standards (or those of Christianity, which, according to my own limited understanding, are pretty forgiving nonetheless).

Prejean's story is a better cautionary tale for teenagers on why you need to understand that things you do can follow you around forever. And in today's world, weird stuff will show up on Youtube, like you doing a Sinatra-group skit in high school.


Remember, contempt for the audience is what killed Dennis Day. By the way, what happened to Sinead O' Connor?