By Prudence Beecher
Special to YNOT

WASHINGTON – In the age of social media, it’s more important than ever for our role models and public figures to be cautious and vigilant about the ideas they express and the company they keep.

If you’re not careful, even the smartest and most decent, completely non-racist people with all the best words can end up accidentally repeatedly re-tweeting memes originally posted by white supremacists. Hey, it happens to the best of us, right?

What’s far, far worse than innocently sharing obviously bogus crime statistics frequently cited by white power nationalists, of course, is having any sort of confirmed contact with a porn star, current or former.

While following and retweeting white supremacists is a mistake anyone can make several times completely innocently, it’s a lot harder for me to swallow the idea of a football player being “just friends” with a former porn star — especially when the former porn star is most likely a terrorist, judging by how her name makes me feel when I say it out loud.

Bad enough this rookie football player has a clearly un-American name like “Su’a Cravens” (I’m guessing he’s Scottish or Irish, because who else puts apostrophes in the middle of their name?), but now he’s been caught Redskin-handed consorting with an online whore.

According to Cravens, he first met Mia Khalifa when she “hit him up” to congratulate the young linebacker on being drafted, no doubt looking to get her hooks into him and his money before he could marry a decent, God-fearing Christian woman — or possibly to radicalize him by sending him blowjob videos.

Perhaps a more experienced player would have known the friendly overture was a lust trap just waiting to be sprung, or perhaps Cravens did know it was a bad idea to interact with Khalifa but simply lived up to his last name, shrinking away from the spiritual conflict he should have had with the foul, four-eyed temptress.

In any event, Cravens is now trying to downplay his online dalliances with Khalifa, despite the fact he plays for a team located in our nation’s capital, which means these “harmless” flirtations really should be viewed as an existential threat to our national security.

“So we just talked then, and we’ve just been friends ever since,” Cravens said of his online introduction to the bespectacled sex-jihadist. “She’s a real good fan, as well as a hockey fan. I’m not a hockey fan at all, so she’s been trying to get me to watch hockey and stuff. She’s a die-hard Capitals fan, so she gets mad at me whenever I make fun of her for watching it. But she’s just a friend.”

How many red flags can one explanation send up? The fact there’s even one radical Islamic porn star hockey fan out there in America should send a cultural shiver down the spine of every last fundamentalist Christian NASCAR enthusiast and orthodox Jewish basketball lover in existence.

We founded this nation on Judeo-Christian sports values, like fair play, teamwork, good sportsmanship, not cutting off our vanquished opponents’ heads and only occasionally filming the other team’s defense during their practices. Are we going to sit here and let a bunch of ice-skating French-Canadians and their radical Islamist porn star allies take it away from us, one tweet at a time?

While I’d like to assume only (presumably illegal) immigrants and other non-American football players would ever be so foolish as to have anything to do with a porn performer, we already know such is not the case.

We know this because photos have previously surfaced in which a different porn star was mugging with and wearing the jersey of beloved gridiron dimwit Rob Gronkowski, a man better known by what I can only assume is his pornographic stage name, “Groink.”

In Groink’s defense, “Bibi Jones” doesn’t sound like a terrorist name to me, and the Patriots have been way, way better than the Redskins over the years — or in the years since the NFL banned the practice of using large farm animals on the offensive line, at least.

Still, there was no excuse for Groink wanting to spend time around a porn star (other than the obviously socially unacceptable excuse that porn stars tend to be better at sucking penises than the average person), something Groink himself recognized, resulting in a heartfelt quasi-apology.

Even if I personally believe it may be too late for Cravens to save his soul (remember: God forgives all except porn-sins), he can still save his career and repair his reputation enough to satisfy more secular football fans if he follows in Groink’s hoof-steps and apologizes for being “friends” with Khalifa — who might consider issuing an apology of her own to Cravens, seeing as how she has most likely given him cyber-chlamydia by now.

Let this be a lesson to all of you aspiring football players out there, as well. The next time you’re thinking about interacting with a porn star on social media, think again — and just surreptitiously meet her at some off-brand cheap hotel in the middle of nowhere, like a decent person.

Prudence Beecher is a devout Christian, mother of seven, needlework expert and anti-pornography activist from Anniston, Alabama. She is also the author of numerous fine e-books, including The Real Father of Chelsea Clinton is Satan Himself and Tapeworms, Giardia, Progressives and Other Common Parasites.