Miss North Carolina Kristen Dalton may have been crowned Miss USA 2009 on Sunday night, but it’s Miss California Carrie Prejean’s answer to a question about same-sex marriage from celebrity blogger and pageant judge Perez Hilton that is creating some major controversy.

During the show, Perez asked Carrie, “Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not?”

“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 and in, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman,” Carrie, 21, stumbled as she replied. “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.”

Well Perez didn’t take too kindly to that remark. The acid-tongued pundit later called the beauty queen a “dumb bitch” during an after pageant vlog on his popular PerezHilton.com website.

And the flamboyant queen isn’t the only one speaking out against Carrie’s controversial response to the question. An executive director of the Miss California USA pageant say they are “saddened” by the statesque’s blonde’s remarks.

“As co-executive director of Miss CA USA and one of the leaders of the Miss CA family, I am personally saddened and hurt that Miss CA USA 2009 believes marriage rights belong only to a man and a woman,” Keith Lewis, Co-Executive Director of Miss California USA/Teen USA said in a statement released to PerezHilton.com. “Although I believe all religions should be able to ordain what unions they see fit, I do not believe our government should be able to discriminate against anyone. Religious beliefs have no place in politics in the Miss CA family.”

“It did cost me my crown,” Carrie said of her response on Monday’s Billy Bush Show. “I wouldn’t have had it any other way. I said what I feel. I stated an opinion that was true to myself and that’s all I can do.”

“It is a very touchy subject and [Hilton] is a homosexual and I see where he was coming from and I see the audience would’ve wanted me to be more politically correct,” she added. “But I was raised in a way that you can never compromise your beliefs and your opinions for anything.”