Seth Leibsohn and Kathryn Jean Lopez have a wonderful article about Miss California, her honest defiance of Perez Hilton's expectations of her views on gay "marriage," and the subsequent revelation that she posed topless for lingerie ads.

We both worried when Miss California showed up at a press conference for our friends at the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). It was hard to believe the gay-marriage proponents would let this brave young woman get away with her free exercise of free speech without some serious retribution. Already, as a NOM commercial on the Prejean incident was released, a story about her implants was leaked. And, of course, that was only the beginning of the character assassination to come.

Watch carefully. This is what happens when people take a position against gay marriage — a view that the majority of the population supports, according to a new CNN poll.

Read their ideas here.

This, however, is a very good point that no one is making and what I wanted to show you:

Bristol Palin, a young mother now, knows about choices that stay with you. This week, it was announced that she will be a teen-pregnancy prevention “ambassador.” She already is one, and she really doesn’t need this added responsibility. She’s working for the Candie’s Foundation, which has, as the first bullet point in its mission statement, the following: “Be Sexy: It Doesn’t Mean You Have to Have Sex.” This, of course, is not the right message. With hormones running wild, teens do not need to be encouraged to be sexy, with or without abstinence. This is not helpful — probably especially for young Bristol.

Bristol Palin does not need to be an advocate of anything. She’s a girl who has made mistakes that have been that much harder because she was hoisted into the public square as the consequences of those mistakes could not be hidden. She has enough adult responsibilities now. Among them should be taking care of her child, finishing high school, and staying away from the cameras where she says things like abstinence is “not realistic.” Let the girl live in peace and not be a poster girl for anything.

It’s a mean, naked public square, especially when your life is exposed — or you are, literally, as in the case of Carrie Prejean. Instead of casting Carrie and Bristol in the hot, grueling lights of public scrutiny, how about taking a step back and dialing back the sexy? How about bringing the adults to the forefront?