(Miss USA pageant contestant Carrie Prejean coins the phrase "opposite marriage". — April 20th, 2009)

What Miss California apparently MEANT to say...

PEREZ HILTON:
Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit. Why or why not?

MISS CALIFORNIA:
Well I think it's great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. Um, we live in a land that you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage and, you know what, in my country of America and in, 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 and that's how I think that it should be between a man and a woman. So I guess now that I think about it, I really don't think it's great that Americans are able to choose, and that's why I support a constitutional amendment that bans people from choosing one or the other. And that may not be politically correct. But it's biblically correct. No offense. And I know that tomorrow I'm going to have hundreds of new Facebook friends and messages from people saying how proud of me they are that I stood my ground in the face of this hurtful question about Vermont. And spoke from my heart, from my beliefs, and for my God.