and although carrie prejean would not go down in history as having the worst miss answer in historian ( that dishonor possibly go to 2007 ' s model south carolina teen usa ) , her solution might have been worded a bit more eloquently . she answered : " i think it ' s great that americans are able to have one or the other . we live in a land that you can chooses same - sex marriage or plural parents and , you know this , in my country and my life i think that i know 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 male and a couple . " .
Carrie Prejean is Miss California.