http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=1010334The Miss USA Pageant may be damaging its image.
The Miss USA website displays photos of this year's contestants dressed in lingerie and situated in suggestive poses that could be considered soft pornography.
"It's a terrible step backward that women would be treated once again as just objects for people to use for their own satisfaction rather than creations of God that can be held up with honor and admired for their talents...their skills, and their innate beauty," Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America (CWA), argues.
Wendy WrightShe feels this situation paints a poor picture of the contestants, whom many young women and girls view as role models.
"The Miss USA Pageant is falling in line with so much else that is coming out of Hollywood and the advertising world that the only thing that a woman can give to society or give to culture is basically selling herself as a sex object," Wright laments.
The pro-family spokeswoman believes society should be encouraging young women and girls to be feminine and have good character.
The CWA president also reports that some contestants refused to participate in the photo shoot, and she predicts that their decision can guarantee that the downward spiral of standards will eventually be pushing young Christian women out of the pageant.