Miss USA 2009| Kristen Dalton of North Carolina
The 22-year old Miss North Carolina USA Kristen Dalton was crowned Miss USA 2009 on Sunday, beating out 50 other beauty queens in the live pageant televised from Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. She will compete for the Miss Universe title in Bahamas on August. Dalton is an aspiring motivational speaker and entertainer from Wilmington.
Other winners were first runner-up Miss California USA Carrie Prejean, of San Diego, and second runner-up Miss Arizona USA Alicia-Monique Blanco, of Phoenix.
One of the highlight of the pageant was Miss California’s answer to a question about legalizing same-sex marriage. The young woman answered “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.”
So what do you think about legalizing same-sex marriage in America?
