Miss USA contestant vs. Perez Hilton

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/04/22/perez-hilton-and-miss-usa-contestant-debate-gay-marriage/

This blog is about all the fuss surrounding Miss California's answer to the question of judge Perez Hilton (celebrity blogger). During the Miss USA pageant 2009 Perez Hilton asked Miss California Carrie Prejean the following question:
Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same sex-marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not?"

Prejean answered: "Well, I think it's great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. And you know what, in my country, in 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." (source: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-daum25-2009apr25,1,655478.column)

Carrie Prejean became runner-up in the beauty pageant. The same evening, Perez Hilton posted a videomessage on his blog saying that Carrie Prejean's answer was the worst in pageant history and he gave her several insulting words to think about. After that, all hell broke loose and several news channels, tv shows and newspapers have wasted minutes and words on it. Some of them agree with Perez Hilton and other think that there was nothing wrong with Carrie Prejean's answer (which of course makes him and the people on his side even more furious). Rumour has it that Miss California lost the contest because of her answer.

I have to stay in the middle here. I agree with Perez Hilton that a Miss USA should represent all of America and should try to give a politically correct answer, preferably staying in the middle of it and especially in this case not giving her opinion about this. Homosexuality is still a big issue in America and the land is divided by opinions about it. However, honesty is worth something as well and she does start off by saying that Americans are able to chose one or the other, but after that she speaks her mind too much. I think that if she would have spoken in favour of gay marriage, there would have been people compaining about it as well (since there are enough people who are supporting her statement against it now). There may even be a chance that if she had answered the question in a way that Perez Hilton afterwards said would have been better (http://perezhilton.com/2009-04-20-in-case-you-missed-it-98), she still would have had people speaking out against her answer. Basically, no answer would have been perfect, but the answer she chose may have been the worst. I think that there even is a chance that Perez Hilton asked this question to stirr the subject a bit more.