Carrie Prejean worked her way up through the pageant system, eventually becoming Miss California USA, and a contestant in the Miss USA 2009 pageant. As the pageant proceeded, she quickly became the favorite, with only a few steps remaining to secure her win. Enter, stage left, Perez Hilton, the highly read entertainment blogger that makes no secrets about his homosexual lifestyle, or liberal leanings on the social end of politics. As a judge in the pageant, he was tasked with asking Carrie Prejean a question, and he chose the volatile topic of Gay Marriage. Perez Hilton asked, “Vermont recently became the 4th state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit. Why or why not?” Carrie Prejean, in short, responded that she believed marriage is between a man and a woman.
