The Miss America Pageant, a decades-old tradition in American culture, continues to push the envelope in order to grab coveted viewers who have been tuning out the broadcast in recent years.
The parade of bodies has become so risqué that this year Miss Utah, Katie Millar, decided to take a stand for modesty by choosing to wear a less revealing evening gown and a one-piece swimsuit. And she finished in the Top 10, despite some criticism from her fellow contestants.
“My message as Miss Utah expands beyond just the pageant world,” Millar told the Daily Herald in her hometown of Highland, Utah. “I hope that I am an example to all young women that you can uphold traditional values and be successful at the same time.”
Mary Mohler, whose husband R. Albert Mohler Jr. is president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., was pleased with Millar’s decision to not give in to pressure about what she should wear.
“While the issues behind why one would enter a pageant like this anyway are certainly up for debate, I think Katie Millar is to be commended for her brave stand for modesty in the Miss America Pageant,” Mohler, who has led workshops on modesty, said in a statement to Baptist Press. “Her swimsuit clearly stood out among the others as modest but was certainly stylish and feminine as well. Her evening gown was elegant in every way but did not cross the line that the vast majority of her contenders did.
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