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 Carrie Prejean: Takes stand on 'Today'
Miss California Carrie Prejean said that she stood by her anti-gay-marriage comments, even if they might have cost her the Miss USA crown.
Carrie Prejean defended her views on Tuesday on NBC's "Today" show by telling host Matt Lauer that she spoke from the heart during Sunday's pageant when she said that "marriage should be between a man and a woman."
The beauty queen's response to a question from openly gay pageant judge and celebrity blogger Perez Hilton received more attention than the winner, Miss North Carolina Kristen Dalton. During the pageant, Perez Hilton asked Prejean if every state should follow Vermont in legalizing same sex marriage.
Prejean responded, "I think it's great that Americans are able to choose one or the other," "But in my country, and in my family, I think that I believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that's how I was raised."
Perez Hilton, who also appeared on the "Today" show on Tuesday, remarked that his question was relevant and also Prejean should have "left her politics and her religion out because Miss USA represents all Americans."
Carrie Prejean, who was named first runner-up at the pageant, told Lauer that she knew "at that moment after I'd answered the question, I knew that I was not going to win because of my answer." In spite of this, she stands by her statements.
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