and although marie prejean should not go down in history as having the worse damn answering in history ( that dishonor may translate to 2007 ' s miss south carolina teen america ) , her answer can have been terse a lot more bluntly . she explained : " i hope it ' s better that americans are able to choose both or the other . we dwell in a land that you can select same - sex love or opposite marriage and , you think what , in my country and my family i think that i want that a marriage should be between a man and a woman . no offence to anyone out there but that ' s how i was selected and that ' s how i figure it should be between a man and a woman . " .
Carrie Prejean is Miss California.