Gay Marriage and the Miss USA Pageant

What possible purpose was served by asking Miss USA contestants about gay marriage? Does anyone look at the contestants and say "Gee, I wonder if that gal's a lesbo?"

SFGate has the details:

If there is a YouTube moment from Sunday's show, it may be Miss California's answer to a question about legalizing same-sex marriage. The tall blonde stumbled some before giving an answer that appeared to please the pageant audience.

"We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage," Prejean said. "And you know what, I think 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 anybody out there, but that's how I was raised."

Some in the audience cheered, others booed. The answer sparked a shouting match in the lobby after the show.

"It's ugly," said Scott Ihrig, a gay man, who attended the pageant with his partner. "I think it's ridiculous that she got first runner-up. That is not the value of 95 percent of the people in this audience. Look around this audience and tell me how many gay men there are."

Charmaine Koonce, the mother of Miss New Mexico USA Bianca Carla, argued back.

"In the Bible it says marriage is between Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve!"

Is there any venue left where we can have a ceremony without debating gay "rights"?

UPDATE: Perez Hilton, the gay activist blogger and judge for this event who asked Miss California the stupid question and now come out and called her a "dumb bitch" because she, like the majority of Californians, does not support gay marriage. More tolerance and compassion from the left.