I would tell them then, to answer truthfully, genuinely, in a manner which lets them sleep at ease and will make their mothers proud. Give an answer that you can defend easily, should you have to do so, and move on to the next question.
There are more important things in life than producing the "correct" answer in a beauty pageant.
but we know that there is a politically correct answer to polarizing questions.
With Carrie Prejean, the politically correct answer would have been to say that she favored homosexual marriage. If she had answered that way, there never would have been controversy.
Each girl has to make her own decision on how to answer. But I think we all know that if she gives a liberal answer to a polarizing question, then there’s no controversy. That’s the way these things work nowadays.
Can you imagine, even less than 20 years ago, that saying you support marriage as a building block of family and society would get you labeled as bigoted and hateful and evil, the way it does today?????
And anecdotal evidence is that many beauty pageant contestants tend to be more traditional or conservative in their outlook on life, and view of the issues. So they can be tripped up in answering because they tend not be liberal.