Earlier today, CB reported on the scandal surrounding the “racy” photos of Carrie Prejean (Miss California). There wasn’t really hardcore nudity, it just seemed like Carrie has done a few photo shoots as an underwear or swimsuit model, which happens. If you consider the Victoria’s Secret catalogue soft-core pornography, you might be offended by the picture released of Carrie Prejean. Otherwise, CB didn’t think it was a huge deal, and I tend to agree.

Instead of letting a minor scandal blow over, Carrie has released a rather sanctimonious statement about the incident. As you would expect, Carrie is blaming whoever released the photos, and saying she can’t be blamed for anything because she’s a Christian. Something like that. I’ll give her some credit – she certainly knows how to keep her name in the news and milk every tabloid story for all the publicity she can get. It’s really no joke – Carrie Prejean is going to have a pretty solid career built on one rambling, incoherent answer to a question about gay marriage during a beauty pageant.

Racy photos of Miss California Carrie Prejean have popped up on the Internet — and she says it’s an attempt to humiliate her because of her anti-gay marriage views.

“On April 19, I chose to answer a question during the 2009 Miss USA pageant in an honest and personal manner that expressed my views of the long-established definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman,” Prejean, 21, said in a statement Tuesday. “Yet my comments defending traditional marriage have led to intimidation tactics that seek to undermine my reputation and somehow silence me and my beliefs, as if opinion is only a one-way street.”

One leaked shot shows Prejean wearing nothing but undies and covering her breast. Prejean insisted the pics are just modeling shots.

“I am a Christian, and I am a model,” she said. “Models pose for pictures, including lingerie and swimwear photos.”

She added that the shots, taken of her as a teenager, were “released surreptitiously to a tabloid Web site that openly mocks me for my Christian faith.”

“I am not perfect, and I will never claim to be,” she went on. “But these attacks on me and others who speak in defense of traditional marriage are intolerant and offensive. While we may not agree on every issue, we should show respect for others’ opinions and not try to silence them through vicious and mean-spirited attacks.”

Despite the controversy, she said she “will continue to support and defend marriage as the honorable institution it is. I will continue to stand with the overwhelming majority of the American people and the voters of my home state of California.”

“If this whole experience has taught me anything,” she concluded, “it is our precious right to speak freely, and how we as Americans can never allow anyone or any group to intimidate or threaten us to keep silent.”

It remains to be seen whether the shots could affect her status as a spokeswoman for conservative causes or her future involvement with the Miss California pageant. (In 1984, Vanessa Williams had to resign her Miss America crown after revealing photos she had posed for in 1982 were leaked to reporters.)

[From US Weekly]

Ugh, she brought up gay marriage. What do these “racy” photos have to do with that? This is about her boob job and her nudie photos, combined with her proclamation of “traditional” Christian values. She can claim that she’s being mocked for her faith, but all of us doing the mocking didn’t make her get the boob job and take off her clothes for the camera. At this point, it’s not even about her answer to the gay marriage question. It’s about those old, ancient culture wars, and I’m not sure Carrie Prejean is really the poster girl the conservatives want or need.