Las Vegas, Nev., Apr 21, 2009 / 13:39 pm
Sunday night, Miss North Carolina Kristen Dalton was named Miss USA, but news coverage of the pageant since then has focused on Miss California and her answer to a judge’s question regarding “same-sex marriage.
The Las Vega pageant, which included women from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, aired Sunday night on NBC. The contestants were judged in swimsuit and evening gown competitions before being asked a question by one of the judges.
Miss California, Carrie Prejean, was asked a question by the pageant judge Perez Hilton, who is an openly homosexual gossip blogger. In the final round of the competition, Prejean, from San Diego, was asked by Hilton: “Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not?”
To which she answered: “I think it's great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. We live in a land that you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage and, you know what, in my country and my family I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anyone out there, but that's how I was raised and that's how I think it should be between a man and a woman."