November 18, 2009 10:11 AM

Carrie Prejean Sextape Video: Meghan McCain "Unnerved" by "Hypocrisy"

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Photo: Carrie Prejean.

NEW YORK (CBS) Meghan McCain, the daughter of 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain, has taken to task fallen beauty queen Carrie Prejean and opponents of same-sex marriage, in the wake of news that the former Miss California USA has filmed a sex tape.

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Meghan McCain, who calls herself both a Republican and a strong supporter of same-sex marriage, said that she is "unnerved" by the hypocrisy shown by Prejean, the 22-year-old "anti-gay marriage champion," and politicians who use gay-marriage as a moral "trump card in any situation" while sex scandals, normally abhorrent to conservative moral codes, don't seem to bother them a bit.

"Making a sex tape is never acceptable," McCain wrote in an editorial posted on the news website The Daily Beast. "I find it even more disturbing that as long as you oppose gay marriage, filming yourself having sex is taken more lightly."

"Does anyone else see the hypocrisy in this kind of thinking? And hypocrisy is something the Republican Party can't afford to have right now as the GOP struggles to find its identity," McCain wrote in the piece posted Monday.

In early November, Prejean admitted that she made a solo sex tape. She has since called it "the biggest mistake of my life" and says that she was 17 — a minor — when she recorded it for a lover. A number of sources, including the internet gossip website TMZ have reported that she may have made as many as seven other sex tapes, posed for 30 nude photos, and was of legal age when the pornographic material was produced.

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Photo: Meghan McCain on Twitter.

McCain, who was in a photo flap herself recently for "tweeting" a busty picture of herself to her followers on Twitter, wrote "If you're a Republican, is it better to be in favor of gay marriage or to make a sex tape?"

"It seems that as long as you are against gay marriage, any scandal in your life can be overlooked or overcome. When you are in favor of it, however—and I have been very vocal about my support—that position defines you," said McCain.

"Many believe that it was Carrie Prejean's anti-gay marriage views that cost her the Miss USA California title earlier this year. My question is: When it comes to Republicans, is your position on gay marriage what determines your fate within the party?"

Prejean was dismissed from her post as Miss California USA in June. Pageant organizers said she was skipping official events. But Prejean felt she was persecuted for her outspoken religious beliefs even before her statements against gay marriage. She sued for libel, slander and religious discrimination. The pageant countersued, claiming Prejean still owed them $5,200 for breast implants they helped her buy.

(AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
Photo: Carrie Prejean.

The dueling lawsuits came to an abrupt halt in early November, when, according to the "Today" show, pageant organizers made her aware that they had a copy of the tape.

Since then, both sides have been silent on why the lawsuits were settled and the terms of the deal. Prejean threatened to walk off Larry King's show Nov. 11 when King pressed her on the reasons for the settlement.





WHAT DO YOU THINK? Is Meghan McCain right?

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by gunslug50 January 8, 2010 12:28 AM EST
Gay marriage is wrong and will always be wrong in the eyes of GOD.

Picture this scenery when you see President Obama holding hand romantic with John McCain in public for the World to see, you think millions of christians will just stand-by and let this immoral act be display on a daily basic when this country was base on GOD Moral Standard..

Carrie Prejean is morally right in her stance on gay marriage being immorally wrong and if that cost her Miss California USA title than so be it.
She has no guilty conscious about her statement and that makes her more beautiful as ever.
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by judyreno December 5, 2009 9:19 PM EST
I find it ironic that Prejean is condemning the gays, and McCain is condemning Prejean. When will we all learn that none of us are worthy to cast the first stone. We all have fallen short. So, maybe if we can start to accept one another, pull the log out of our own eyes, and come together in acceptance and love and unity...then our world would have peace. Ideal, yes. Impossible?
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by briannorwood November 20, 2009 4:35 PM EST
Sorry folks, but every time I think of this bible thumper Prejean in a solo sex tape (or seven sex tapes), I can't help but think of Linda Blaire in the Exorcist! LOL!
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by Midwestchristian November 21, 2009 9:20 AM EST
While I never considered Prejean a romodel, you make the term "bible thumper" sound like it's a bad thing. Don't misunderstand me, I do feel Prejean is a hypocrite for treating gay marriage as 'sexually immoral' when she did something that was sexually immoral, but she said this happened years ago so I believe her when she says she regrets it after all who doesn't make mistakes? She is still young for she isn't even 30, and no one can say they have not done something they regret so the people who are demonizing her are just as hypocritical. I mean it's not like she just walked up to some smut producer RIGHT after her California crown was taken you know???
by phtsearch November 20, 2009 4:28 PM EST
Wake Up! The only reason that the govt. is pushing "Gay Marriage" is so that there can be "Gay Divorce". It's a whole new population of people for the Lawyers to exploit and get money from so they can take their big cut and then slush some back to the Democrats. The Democrats don't really care about anyone's "rights" - don't be fooled. Geez..........
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by Lawyers-Guns-n-Money-01 November 20, 2009 4:44 PM EST
There's a cynic in every crowd.
by bobnjersey November 20, 2009 4:57 PM EST
[The only reason that the govt. is pushing "Gay Marriage" is so that there can be "Gay Divorce". It's a whole new population of people for the Lawyers to exploit and get money from so they can take their big cut and then slush some back to the Democrats. The Democrats don't really care about anyone's "rights" - don't be fooled. Geez.......... ]

did you make that nonsense up yourself ... or did you get it from some other idiot?
by tourist27 November 20, 2009 4:17 PM EST
"If our country would just give the same rights and priviledges to gay couples in civil unions that they give to straight couples in marriages then this would all be moot."

But, as long as you are single and without children, your taxes will go to support those in marriages with children. And somebody has to take care of them, particularly those with large families.
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by addict42 November 20, 2009 4:13 PM EST
If our country would just give the same rights and priviledges to gay couples in civil unions that they give to straight couples in marriages then this would all be moot.
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by tourist27 November 20, 2009 4:11 PM EST
A previous poster wrote: "I see personal rights being subverted by "political correctness"." Here's the simple key: stay out of my personal life and I will stay out of yours. Put another way: do unto others as you would have done unto you. Do you really want someone coming in and telling you how you should live your life? And that is the problem with holier-than-thou types - they really are so smug that they think they have the answers for everyone on the planet: do as I say not as I do. The utter audacity of telling others how to live is a true conceit. Ms Prejean - we elitists consider vapid fake blondes with fake boobs a subspecies - one that should not propagate for fear of dummying down the entire gene pool. Truly. Now, since these are all lifestyle choices, could you please do as we dictate since it appears you do not have the common sense to make the right choices. Get yourself fixed, get a job - and show the human race some other assets like integrity and humility. Then, and only then, can you join the human race and quit pretending that you are some vainglorious demigod that can tell others how to live. How about you get a life, and let others live theirs?
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by judyreno December 5, 2009 9:22 PM EST
a little hypocrital dont you think?
by Oregon_State_OSU November 20, 2009 3:37 PM EST
Sarah Palin and Carrie Prejean > Republican ticket in 2012.
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by econobiker-2009 November 20, 2009 3:14 PM EST
If sex outside of marriage and abusing your soul by allowing it to be filmed is a straight path to heaven then every adult film star will be a saint! Thank God for XXX!

So stupid to say Gays/Lesbians are sinners but not flag this as sin.

Dumb woman.
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by hockeymom441 November 20, 2009 2:59 PM EST
This idiot Prejan, should pair up w/ Palin for the next Presidential bid.

Is it really "NEWS" that some republicans are complete and total hating, bigoted, hypocrits! Come on, tell me something I don't know!
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