Miss California says she stands by her anti-gay-marriage comments, even if they may have cost her the Miss USA crown.
Carrie Prejean defended her views Tuesday on NBC's "Today" show, 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 has received more attention than the winner, Miss North Carolina Kristen Dalton. During the pageant, Hilton asked Prejean if every state should follow Vermont in legalizing same sex marriage.
"I think it's great that Americans are able to choose one or the other," Prejean responded. "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."
Hilton, who also appeared on the "Today" show Tuesday, said his question was relevant and that Prejean should have "left her politics and her religion out because Miss USA represents all Americans."
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." Still, she stands by her statements.
"I don't take back what I said," she told Lauer, adding that she "had spoken from my heart, from my beliefs and for my God."
"It's not about being politically correct," she said. "For me, it's about being biblically correct."
During the Miss USA pageant, Miss California, Carrie Prejean, was asked her opinion on gay marriages. Instead of saying what everyone expected and wanted to hear, she was honest about being against gay marriage. Although she knew it would hurt her chances of becoming Miss USA, Prejean stuck with her honest opinion.
This article simply relates to sexual orientation: heterosexuality versus homosexuality. The topic was focused on homosexuality which is the attraction between members of the same sex. Homosexuality is still not seen as a norm in today's society, and as Prejean claimed, that was not how she was raised. Furthermore, Prejean's answer also ties back to personality. In her defense, she was taught to think this way through her developmental experiences and cultural influences. According to the social- cognitive theory, people learn and develop their behaviors and habits through experience in the social world. Prejean developed her opinion on homosexuality through learning experiences and being conditioned to think that way.
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