The Seven Deadly Sins of Prejean's Speech

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Sep 23, 2009 1:32 PM CDT

(Newser) – For some reason, people are still listening to Carrie Prejean. The Value Voters Summit even had her give a speech recently (see video). But Prejean made a few mistakes, or sins if you like, writes Oliver Miller for TheFasterTimes.com:

Pride: “You know who doesn’t feel the need to constantly tout their own courageousness? Actual courageous people.”
Wrath: Prejean gave off “a general air of eye-rolling bitchy entitlement.”

Sloth: For intellectual laziness alone. How, oh how, could she complain about people being “intolerant”?
Greed: For wanting a “much bigger crown in heaven.”
Envy: Actually Miller is envious. He’s envious of people like Prejean, so dumb that they “believe God cares about every stupid detail of their crappy lives.”
Lust: Saying America’s the greatest country on earth means you’re lusting after cheap applause
Gluttony: OK, actually, she’s really skinny.

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Miss California USA, Carrie Prejean, listens during a news conference in New York, Tuesday May 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Carrie Prejean speaks before the Value Voters Summit in this YouTube screenshot.

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