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Miss America stood firm for abstinence.(Making A Difference)
Before she was crowned Miss America 2003 in September of last year, Erika Harold of Urbana, Illinois, had for many years carried a message urging premarital chastity to youngsters across the Prairie State. Consistent with her deeply held Christian convictions regarding the issue, she made abstinence a centerpiece of her year-long reign as Miss America which ended on September 20.
Miss Harold was recently interviewed by radio station WDLM-FM, which reaches the Quad Cities of Illinois and Iowa. Among other things, Miss Harold recalled how God moved her to continue speaking out about abstinence after winning the title, though a lot of people were discouraging her from doing so. Even before Miss America Organization officials formally asked her to refrain from talking about the issue, she had "started to hear from pro-family groups that their phone calls were not being returned in regard to booking me for abstinence presentations. And pro-family media entities, their phone calls were not being answered as well." She stood firm, and the organization eventually agreed to let her talk about premarital chastity as part of her youth-violence prevention platform.
Miss Harold decided to postpone detailed public discussion of the controversy until after her successor had been crowned. "I knew ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Miss America stood firm for abstinence.(Making A Difference)