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• THE GRAMMYS' BIG GAY WEDDG FOR STRAIGHT SUPERSTARS
• GRAMMY AWARDS 2014: QUEEN LATIFAH OFFICIAT MASS WEDDG WH GAY COUPL
• GAY AND STRAIGHT COUPL MARRIED LIVE DURG 2014 GRAMMY AWARDS
• GRAMMYS: GAY MARRIAGE TAK CENTRE STAGE
• GIVE UP, GAY MARRIAGE HATERS: GRAMMYS MASS WEDDG PROV YOU’VE LOST
• KIRK CAMERON THKS GRAMMYS' GAY MARRIAG WERE AN 'ASSLT ON THE TRADNAL FAY'
• MASS WEDDG AT 56TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS 2014 SPARKS CONTROVERSY; SEGMENT DCRIBED AS 'POLIL STUNT,' CHRISTIAN SGER NATALIE GRANT LEAV EVENT EARLY (VIDEO)CONTROVERSY H LAST NIGHT'S 56TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS AS 33 HOMOSEXUAL AND HETEROSEXUAL UPL TOOK PART A MASS WEDDG LIVE ON CBS. THE EVENT HAS BEEN CRCIZED AS A POLIL STUNT BY GRAMMY AWARDS ANIZERS, ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE NIED ANY POLIL MOTIVATNS THE WEDDG SEGMENT. HOWEVER, THE MASS WEDDG WAS PUT ON TO CI WH MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS' PRO-GAY MARRIAGE SONG "SAME LOVE," LEADG MANY TO CRICIZE ANIZERS FOR THEIR ALLEGEDLY CLEAR POLIL STATEMENT AT THE MIC EVENT.SUNDAY NIGHT'S GRAMMY AWARDS WERE PACKED WH SURPRIS, OM DUETS WH PHARRELL WILLIAMS, FRENCH ROBOTS, DAFT PUNK, AND STEVIE WONR, TO A BEATL RNN ON STAGE. HOWEVER, WHAT PERHAPS SURPRISED VIEWERS THE MOST WAS WHAT TOOK PLACE DURG BT NEW ARTIST WNERS, MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS' PERFORMANCE.DURG THE DUO'S SONG, "SAME LOVE," WHICH FIGHTS FOR SAME SEX MARRIAGE, DOZENS OF GAY, LBIAN, AND HETEROSEXUAL UPL EXCHANGED RGS AND WERE MARRIED WHILE LNS WATCHED ON SCREEN."MIC HAS THE POWER TO BRG PEOPLE TOGETHER AT THE GRAMMY'S," QUEEN LATIFAH, WHO PRID THE MARRIAGE, SAID AS SHE TRODUCED MACKLEMORE. "THIS SONG IS A LOVE SONG NOT FOR SOME OF BUT ALL OF !"SHE THEN ECHOED THE SONG'S LYRICS: "WHATEVER GOD YOU BELIEVE , WE E OM THE SAME ONE. STRIP AWAY THE FEAR, UNRNEATH, 'S ALL THE SAME LOVE."MACKLEMORE ME OUT RAPPG ONT OF AN ALTAR, SHOUTG: "NO EEDOM TILL WE'RE EQUAL."QUEEN LATIFAH OFFICIATED THE NUPTIALS MIDWAY TO THE SONG, BEFORE TRODUCG THE UPL."IT IS MY DISTCT HONOR TO ASK THE PARTICIPANTS TO EXCHANGE RGS," THEN SHE EXCGLY EXCLAIMED BEFORE LNS OF VIEWERS WATCHG AROUND THE GLOBE. "BY THE POWER VTED ME BY THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU A MARRIED UPLE."MADONNA THEN ME OUT SGG, "OPEN YOUR HEART TO ME" AS THE UPL BEGAN HUGGG.THE MASS WEDDG SEGMENT THEN BEME EVEN MORE NTROVERSIAL AS END BY REFERENCG THE BIBLE TO ANNOT THE PROCEEDGS; A CHOIR BEGAN SGG THE BIBLE'S SACRED LOVE CHAPTER OF CORTHIANS 13, "LOVE IS PATIENT, LOVE IS KD," AND MADONNA AND MARY LAMBERT SGG, "I'M NOT CRYG ON SUNDAY."GAY MARRIAGE HAS BEEN A HUGELY DIVISIVE TOPIC THE UNED STAT OVER RECENT YEARS, WH NSERVATIV FIGHTG AGAST ANY REFN OF MARRIAGE AS THE UNN BETWEEN ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN - A FN CHRISTIANS BELIEVE OM GOD AS RERD SCRIPTURE. ALTHOUGH A LARGE MARJORY OF STAT AMERI STILL MATA THE TRADNAL FN OF MARRIAGE, 17 STAT AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA NOW ALLOW GAY MARRIAG. HOWEVER, CHRISTIANS AND OTHER RELIG GROUPS HAVE VOWED TO STAND STRONG AND FIGHT TO MATA THE SANCTY OF MARRIAGE.CHRISTIAN GOSPEL SGER NATALIE GRANT, WHO WAS NOMATED TWICE FOR HER H SONG, "HURRINE," LEFT THE SHOW EARLY - WH SOME CLAIMG HER CHRISTIAN NVICTNS WERE BEHD THE EARLY EX FOLLOWG THE POLIL STUNT OF THE MASS WEDDG."WE LEFT THE GRAMMY'S EARLY. I'VE MANY THOUGHTS ABOUT THE SHOW TONIGHT, MOST OF WHICH ARE PROBABLY BETTER LEFT SI MY HEAD. BUT I'LL SAY THIS: I'VE NEVER BEEN MORE HONORED TO SG ABOUT J AND FOR J. AND I'VE NEVER BEEN MORE SURE OF THE PATH I'VE CHOSEN," GRANT POSTED ON HER FACEBOOK.LATEST NEWS
• GRAMMYS GAY MARRIAGE STUNT SHOWS AMERI HAS A LONG WAY TO GO ON EQUALY
• GAY MARRIAGE ADDS MORN TWIST TO GRAMMYS 2014
• DID 'SATANIC' PERFORMANCE OR GAY MARRIAGE LEAD NATALIE GRANT TO LEAVE THE GRAMMYS EARLY?
• GRAMMYS TURN MASS WEDDG GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATN
• NATALIE GRANT RPONDS AFTER LEAVG GRAMMYS EARLY; MASS WEDDG AT AWARD SHOW CRICIZED AS 'POLIL STUNT' TO PH GAY MARRIAGE AGENDA;
• WATCH: MACKLEMORE AND QUEEN LATIFAH’S BIG, GAY, MULTIRACIAL MASS WEDDG AT THE GRAMMYS

THE GRAMMYS' BIG GAY WEDDG FOR STRAIGHT SUPERSTARS

RtersCongrats to the 33 upl, gay and straight, who walked to the Grammy Awards Sunday night unmarried and walked out as newlyweds.

It wasn’t really for gay rights eher.

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GRAMMY AWARDS 2014: QUEEN LATIFAH OFFICIAT MASS WEDDG WH GAY COUPL

The 2014 Grammy Awards on Sunday Los Angel featured a star-studd pro-gay marriage event as mic artist Queen Latifah, who is legally putized to nduct weddg ceremoni, married 34 upl, both gay and event featured a live performance of the pro-LGBT song "Same Love" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, wh Madonna jog later on an all-whe su, sgg "Open Your Heart. ""Same Love" clus lyrics chidg nservativ and those who oppose gay marriage: "The right-wg nservativ thk 's a cisn; And you n be cured wh some treatment and relign; Man-ma, rewirg of a pre-disposn, playg God; … Ameri the brave still fears what we don't know; And 'God lov all his children' is somehow fotten; But we paraphrase a book wrten thirty-five-hundred years ago;...

"Latifah clarified that she was sworn only as a temporary missner by the state of California, where gay marriage is legal, and that she was approached to officiate the mass weddg celebratn about two weeks ago. "No matter where one stands on the issue of gay marriage, 's impossible to ny an age of hot button issu 's among the hottt, " the publitn wrote. They took home the Grammy for Bt New Artist, but Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' biggt moment tonight may have been brgg dozens of gay, straight and multiracial upl together to get married live durg the 56th Grammy Awards.

GAY AND STRAIGHT COUPL MARRIED LIVE DURG 2014 GRAMMY AWARDS

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, A mass weddg has bee the most talked about moment of the 2014 GrammysThe 56th Grammy Awards were held last night, and while there were no twerkg cints to stir ntroversy, a planned marriage ceremony for 34 gay and straight upl officiated by Queen Latifah the middle of the rap by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis about marriage equaly (wh a meo by Madonna) had people talkg. "For a pro gay song, this sure do feature a lot of Macklemore clarifyg that he's straight, " tweeted Ronan Farrow.

The Washgton Post's Alexandra Petri agreed:Mary Lambert, Madonna, Ryan Lewis and Macklemore performed a song about how Macklemore Believ In Gay Rights And Can Lecture You On Intolerance Bee When He Was In Third Gra He Thought He Was Gay (But He Wasn't Though) But, Like, The Pot Is, He Gets It (Repeat: The Mack Has Always Liked Girls) while 34 upl (gay and straight) were married by Queen Latifah. "Unfortunately, those watchg at home didn't get to see any of the gay upl actually kiss sce CBS - a bafflg cisn - pulled away the meras, choosg to stead foc on Madonna fumblg about wh a ne while mumblg the words to Open Your Heart, " he urse, the broadst wasn't all gay marriage and rappg for equaly.

The movement agast gay marriage is startg to seem kd of silly and outdated, no? The Grammys mass weddg moment Sunday — where 33 upl, cludg a sprklg of gay on, were joed matrimony by Queen Latifah — might have been a stunt, but was an effective one.

GRAMMYS: GAY MARRIAGE TAK CENTRE STAGE

There’s no better way to normalize gay marriage than to simply show would have thought we live a world where the prim and tradnal Rose Para would break this ground before the Grammys got around to ? MORE: Grammy weddg vioOn Sunday, the tradnal weddg procsnal was replaced by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis sgg “Same Love, ” a plea for equal rights that has bee an anthem the gay muny. It begs wh Macklemore reuntg himself as a third-grar, qutng his sexualy bee he’s jt like his gay uncle — artsy and neat.

He m about whether the hip-hop world would hate him if he were gay, plor the sual e of anti-gay slurs and nclus:...

Mark Herrg announced that he would not fend his state’s gay marriage ban bee was unnstutnal. Feral urts have stck down gay marriage bans Oklahoma and Utah (where 1, 000 gay upl married before the Supreme Court granted a stay on Jan. )And several stat are nsirg ballot iativ to legalize gay marriage — cludg possibly Oh, where the state’s voters banned 2004.

GIVE UP, GAY MARRIAGE HATERS: GRAMMYS MASS WEDDG PROV YOU’VE LOST

Bh, who won the state by some 120, 000 vot, cementg his if gay marriage is gog to be a wedge issue the future, ’s one that’s gog to benef Democrats, acrdg to the Washgton Matt Canter, the spokman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Commtee told the Post’s Julia Eilper:“There isn’t a sgle Republin big-money group that spends signifint rourc Senate rac that has even been willg to say on the rerd, ‘Y, we will mpaign on discrimatn and bigotry and attack Democrats who support equaly, ’ ” Canter said.

”Wh only two exceptns, gay marriage has losts s power to be a batterg ram for, the party is hopg to e to attract relig black voters, who nsistently oppose gay marriage. And send, has power Republin primari, where ndidat are still fightg about who is more mted to beg on the wrong si of saw that last year Wyomg, where gay marriage beme an issue the Republin U.

KIRK CAMERON THKS GRAMMYS' GAY MARRIAG WERE AN 'ASSLT ON THE TRADNAL FAY'

Senate primary between the cumbent Mike Enzi and his challenger, Liz, who had favored feral benefs for same-sex upl when she worked at the State Department, was acced of beg soft on gay marriage. Her sistence that she opposed opened an ugly fay rift, as her married gay sister, Mary, publicly berated Dick and Liz Cheney took Liz’s si, soon beme apparent that even nservative Wyomg Republins didn’t want to see a high-profile fay ripped apart by the issue.

In a strangely nvoluted way, that was a kd of a PR victory for gay marriage.

MASS WEDDG AT 56TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS 2014 SPARKS CONTROVERSY; SEGMENT DCRIBED AS 'POLIL STUNT,' CHRISTIAN SGER NATALIE GRANT LEAV EVENT EARLY (VIDEO)CONTROVERSY H LAST NIGHT'S 56TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS AS 33 HOMOSEXUAL AND HETEROSEXUAL UPL TOOK PART A MASS WEDDG LIVE ON CBS. THE EVENT HAS BEEN CRCIZED AS A POLIL STUNT BY GRAMMY AWARDS ANIZERS, ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE NIED ANY POLIL MOTIVATNS THE WEDDG SEGMENT. HOWEVER, THE MASS WEDDG WAS PUT ON TO CI WH MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS' PRO-GAY MARRIAGE SONG "SAME LOVE," LEADG MANY TO CRICIZE ANIZERS FOR THEIR ALLEGEDLY CLEAR POLIL STATEMENT AT THE MIC EVENT.SUNDAY NIGHT'S GRAMMY AWARDS WERE PACKED WH SURPRIS, OM DUETS WH PHARRELL WILLIAMS, FRENCH ROBOTS, DAFT PUNK, AND STEVIE WONR, TO A BEATL RNN ON STAGE. HOWEVER, WHAT PERHAPS SURPRISED VIEWERS THE MOST WAS WHAT TOOK PLACE DURG BT NEW ARTIST WNERS, MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS' PERFORMANCE.DURG THE DUO'S SONG, "SAME LOVE," WHICH FIGHTS FOR SAME SEX MARRIAGE, DOZENS OF GAY, LBIAN, AND HETEROSEXUAL UPL EXCHANGED RGS AND WERE MARRIED WHILE LNS WATCHED ON SCREEN."MIC HAS THE POWER TO BRG PEOPLE TOGETHER AT THE GRAMMY'S," QUEEN LATIFAH, WHO PRID THE MARRIAGE, SAID AS SHE TRODUCED MACKLEMORE. "THIS SONG IS A LOVE SONG NOT FOR SOME OF BUT ALL OF !"SHE THEN ECHOED THE SONG'S LYRICS: "WHATEVER GOD YOU BELIEVE , WE E OM THE SAME ONE. STRIP AWAY THE FEAR, UNRNEATH, 'S ALL THE SAME LOVE."MACKLEMORE ME OUT RAPPG ONT OF AN ALTAR, SHOUTG: "NO EEDOM TILL WE'RE EQUAL."QUEEN LATIFAH OFFICIATED THE NUPTIALS MIDWAY TO THE SONG, BEFORE TRODUCG THE UPL."IT IS MY DISTCT HONOR TO ASK THE PARTICIPANTS TO EXCHANGE RGS," THEN SHE EXCGLY EXCLAIMED BEFORE LNS OF VIEWERS WATCHG AROUND THE GLOBE. "BY THE POWER VTED ME BY THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU A MARRIED UPLE."MADONNA THEN ME OUT SGG, "OPEN YOUR HEART TO ME" AS THE UPL BEGAN HUGGG.THE MASS WEDDG SEGMENT THEN BEME EVEN MORE NTROVERSIAL AS END BY REFERENCG THE BIBLE TO ANNOT THE PROCEEDGS; A CHOIR BEGAN SGG THE BIBLE'S SACRED LOVE CHAPTER OF CORTHIANS 13, "LOVE IS PATIENT, LOVE IS KD," AND MADONNA AND MARY LAMBERT SGG, "I'M NOT CRYG ON SUNDAY."GAY MARRIAGE HAS BEEN A HUGELY DIVISIVE TOPIC THE UNED STAT OVER RECENT YEARS, WH NSERVATIV FIGHTG AGAST ANY REFN OF MARRIAGE AS THE UNN BETWEEN ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN - A FN CHRISTIANS BELIEVE OM GOD AS RERD SCRIPTURE. ALTHOUGH A LARGE MARJORY OF STAT AMERI STILL MATA THE TRADNAL FN OF MARRIAGE, 17 STAT AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA NOW ALLOW GAY MARRIAG. HOWEVER, CHRISTIANS AND OTHER RELIG GROUPS HAVE VOWED TO STAND STRONG AND FIGHT TO MATA THE SANCTY OF MARRIAGE.CHRISTIAN GOSPEL SGER NATALIE GRANT, WHO WAS NOMATED TWICE FOR HER H SONG, "HURRINE," LEFT THE SHOW EARLY - WH SOME CLAIMG HER CHRISTIAN NVICTNS WERE BEHD THE EARLY EX FOLLOWG THE POLIL STUNT OF THE MASS WEDDG."WE LEFT THE GRAMMY'S EARLY. I'VE MANY THOUGHTS ABOUT THE SHOW TONIGHT, MOST OF WHICH ARE PROBABLY BETTER LEFT SI MY HEAD. BUT I'LL SAY THIS: I'VE NEVER BEEN MORE HONORED TO SG ABOUT J AND FOR J. AND I'VE NEVER BEEN MORE SURE OF THE PATH I'VE CHOSEN," GRANT POSTED ON HER FACEBOOK.LATEST NEWS

When even the notorly gay phobic hip-hop world has e around, ’s fair to nclu the sea has changed. On Sunday, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis performed their equal rights anthem "Same Love" alongsi Mary Lambert and Madonna while Queen Latifah officiated the marriag of 33 upl, gay and straight. " Self-promotn drenched homophobia, that is.

Before You GoAnti-Gay Celebry StatementsPopular the CommunyYou May Like. Trendg News|January 28, 2014 09:00 EST Controversy h last night's 56th Annual Grammy Awards as 33 homosexual and heterosexual upl took part a mass weddg live on CBS. However, the mass weddg was put on to ci wh Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' pro-gay marriage song "Same Love, " leadg many to cricize anizers for their allegedly clear polil statement at the mic night's Grammy Awards were packed wh surpris, om duets wh Pharrell Williams, French Robots, Daft Punk, and Stevie Wonr, to a Beatl rnn on stage.

However, what perhaps surprised viewers the most was what took place durg Bt New Artist wners, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' the duo's song, "Same Love, " which fights for same sex marriage, dozens of Gay, Lbian, and heterosexual upl exchanged rgs and were married while lns watched on screen. "Gay marriage has been a hugely divisive topic the Uned Stat over recent years, wh nservativ fightg agast any refn of marriage as the unn between one man and one woman - a fn Christians believe om God as rerd scripture. Although a large marjory of stat Ameri still mata the tradnal fn of marriage, 17 stat and the district of Columbia now allow gay marriag.

GRAMMYS GAY MARRIAGE STUNT SHOWS AMERI HAS A LONG WAY TO GO ON EQUALY

Some of them were gay and lbian, was a bad day for, Macklemore sang "Same Love, " then Queen Latifah officiated a weddg for 33 upl, and then Madonna sang her 1986 sgle "Open Your Heart.

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GAY MARRIAGE ADDS MORN TWIST TO GRAMMYS 2014

The gay and straight weddgs were officiated by Queen Latifah while the h song about equaly was performed by the rap duo wh Madonna htg the stage wh them, along wh Mary Lambert and jazz artist Trombone Shorty.

“When such a crilly acclaimed and popular rap artist puts marriage equaly center stage at one of the biggt events of the year, is the latt a long le of signs that our natn not only accepts, but celebrat the love and mment of gay upl today, ” said Ellis (who is married to Kristen Henrson of the band Antigone Risg). After beg putized by Los Angel County, Latifah officiated the mass nuptials, which clud “gay, straight, old, young, of many rac and many lors, ” acrdg to the New York Tim.

DID 'SATANIC' PERFORMANCE OR GAY MARRIAGE LEAD NATALIE GRANT TO LEAVE THE GRAMMYS EARLY?

“Same Love, ” which featur songwrer Lambert on the chos, overtly addrs the cultural divi on the issue of gay marriage. As "Same Love" turns 10, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' llaborators revis the song's powerful impact, om lyrics that support gay marriage to a mass weddg at the 2014 GRAMMYs. Macklemore was partially spired by his gay uncle, who is mentned the song's first verse, when wrg "Same Love.

Her stct was right: "Same Love" was nomated for Song Of The Year at the 2014 GRAMMY Awards, where Lambert — alongsi Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Madonna and Queen Latifah — livered a powerful performance of the song that saw gay and heterosexual upl get married on live televisn. Macklemore isn't subtle about the fact that "Same Love" is a pro-gay anthem, even clarg his own stance the song's send verse: "No eedom till we're equal/ damn right, I support .

He also the vers to ll out those who don't, cludg "right-wg nservativ" and relig groups, as well as those who e the term "gay" a rogatory sense. Acrdg to New York Tim, "Same Love" was "the first song to explicly embrace and promote gay marriage that has ma to the Top 40, " per gay rights activists and rad executiv.

GRAMMYS TURN MASS WEDDG GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATN

In a 2014 op-ed for The New Republic, wrer Brandon Ambroso said that while he enjoys the song, he felt sends the wrong msage about beg gay.

NATALIE GRANT RPONDS AFTER LEAVG GRAMMYS EARLY; MASS WEDDG AT AWARD SHOW CRICIZED AS 'POLIL STUNT' TO PH GAY MARRIAGE AGENDA;

"The aversn to that word [choice] our muny stems om belief that if we n't prove that our gayns is blogilly termed, then we won't have grounds to mand equaly, " said Ambroso.

While some felt Macklemore's outwardly pro-gay stance seemed performative, others found that me earnt, and unlike anythg prevly on mastream rad.

WATCH: MACKLEMORE AND QUEEN LATIFAH’S BIG, GAY, MULTIRACIAL MASS WEDDG AT THE GRAMMYS

"Macklemore's lyrics offered an idsyncratic perspective on homophobia hip-hop and Amerin society at large, cricizg both wh a mixture of gentlens and firmns that I had not heard before, " Slate's J. "And most importantly, his support of the gay muny felt scere.

"A straight whe guy performg a good ally song has an element of ches, but I thk gay rights have progrsed so astronomilly fast, that people fet the impact the song had, " Lambert says. "Gay marriage wasn't even legal the Uned Stat when this song me out 2012. The documentary chronicled the sger's 1990 Blond Ambn World Tour, but 's often hailed for champng the LGBTQIA+ muny sce shows Madonna and her dancers attendg a Pri para and gay men sually discsg sex.