Miss USA runner-up could file suit over discrimination

Miss USA runner-up Carrie Prejean, who answered she was against the legalisation of gay marriage in California, may have grounds to file a lawsuit against the pageant for discrimination, says a legal analyst.

Miss California, during the recent Miss USA telecast, had picked gay judge Perez Hilton’s question whether every state should make same-sex marriages legal.

Prejean, who lost out to Miss North Carolina Kristen Dalton, spoke against the possibility and it was suggested that it was her negative answer that may have stabbed her chances of winning.

She recently said that she believed “God was testing her character and faith” with the question and that she was glad she stood her ground.

And now, legal analyst Mercedes Colwin has said that Prejean may have grounds to turn to court.

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