Grammys turn mass weddg gay marriage celebratn

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• GIVE UP, GAY MARRIAGE HATERS: GRAMMYS MASS WEDDG PROV YOU’VE LOST
• THE GRAMMYS' BIG GAY WEDDG FOR STRAIGHT SUPERSTARS
• GRAMMYS TURN MASS WEDDG GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATN
• GRAMMYS WILL FEATURE MASS GAY WEDDG DURG "SAME LOVE," OFFICIATED BY QUEEN LATIFAH. NO, SERLY!BY DAN AVERYJANUARY 26, 2014/12:45 PMBY DAN AVERYJANUARY 26, 2014 / 12:45 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"GRAMMYS WILL FEATURE MASS GAY WEDDG DURG \"SAME LOVE,\" OFFICIATED BY QUEEN LATIFAH. NO, SERLY!","DATEPUBLISHED":"2014-01-26T17:45:36.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2014-01-26T17:45:36.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","KEYWORDS":"MARRIAGE EQUALY"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}[PTN ID="ATTACHMENT_120786" ALIGN="ALIGNCENTER" WIDTH="550"] MARY LAMBERT WH RYAN LEWIS AND MACKLEMORE AT THE 2013 VMAS[/PTN]{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE 2014 GRAMMYS JT GOT A LOT MORE EXCG: THE NEW YORK TIM IS REPORTG THAT 34 GAY AND STRAIGHT UPL WILL BE WED DURG MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS' PERFORMANCE OF "SAME LOVE."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHO WILL OFFICIATE THIS AMAZG GROUP WEDDG? NONE OTHER THAN RAPPER/ACTRS/TALK-SHOW HOST QUEEN LATIFAH. (WILL 'TIFAH TAKE THE OPPORTUNY TO E OUT, OR JT GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO "MY PEOPLE"? WE'LL HAVE TO WA AND SEE){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LEWIS SAYS THE EVENT “WILL BE, OUR MDS, THE ULTIMATE STATEMENT OF EQUALY, THAT ALL THE UPL ARE ENTLED TO THE SAME EXACT THG.” HIS SISTER IS AMONG THOSE WHO WILL GET HCHED AT THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE CEREMONY WAS THE IA OF LONGTIME GRAMMYS PRODUCER KEN EHRLICH, WHOSE DGHTER IS A LBIAN, AND THE RAP DUO WERE EAGER TO JO . (LEWIS AND MACKLEMORE ARE NOMATED FOR SEVEN GRAMMYS TONIGHT, CLUDG SONG OF THE YEAR FOR “SAME LOVE.”) ERLICH SAYS THE EVENT REFLECTS HIS OWN PERSONAL BELIEFS, "BUT I WOULD NOT WANT TO MAKE A BROAD STATEMENT THAT REPRENTS THE VIEWS OF THE AMY OR THE CBS TELEVISN WORK.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GRAMMY EXECUTIV ARE ED PREPARED FOR SOME NEGATIVE BACKLASH: “I EXPECT THAT PEOPLE WH ALL KDS OF OPNS MIGHT VOICE THEM,” SAYS NATNAL AMY OF RERDG ARTS AND SCIENC PRINT NEIL PORTNOW. "AND THAT’S HEALTHY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WH MADONNA ALL BUT NFIRMED TO BE JOG THE BOYS FOR THE SONG, THIS ULD BE THE GAYT MOMENT ON TELEVISN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}[UMA_SNIPPET ID="1720876"]{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}MARRIAGE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
• A CHRISTIAN RPONSE TO THE GRAMMYS’ GAY WEDDG
• KATY PERRY, THE GRAMMY’S, GAY WEDDGS AND WCHCRAFT
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

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

LOS ANGELES: The mic dtry's top night turned to the big day for 34 upl on Sunday as Madonna and other stars prid over a mass weddg a celebratn of gay marriage. Macklemore and Lewis, who racked up Grammys cludg bt new artist, were joed halfway through their song by one of the gay muny's most endurg ins -- Madonna.

US awards ceremoni have creasgly embraced gay rights recent years, wh the Osrs stereotypilly viewed as a top televisn event for the gay muny.

THE GRAMMYS' BIG GAY WEDDG FOR STRAIGHT SUPERSTARS

In 2001, rap superstar Emem, unr fire for his e of anti-gay ephets, performed a duet at the Grammys wh the openly gay Elton John.

GRAMMYS TURN MASS WEDDG GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATN

Seventeen US stat and the pal Washgton allow gay marriage, and opn polls show that a majory of Amerins support same-sex upl' right to wed, a rapid turnaround jt the past . 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. 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.

GRAMMYS WILL FEATURE MASS GAY WEDDG DURG "SAME LOVE," OFFICIATED BY QUEEN LATIFAH. NO, SERLY!BY DAN AVERYJANUARY 26, 2014/12:45 PMBY DAN AVERYJANUARY 26, 2014 / 12:45 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"GRAMMYS WILL FEATURE MASS GAY WEDDG DURG \"SAME LOVE,\" OFFICIATED BY QUEEN LATIFAH. NO, SERLY!","DATEPUBLISHED":"2014-01-26T17:45:36.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2014-01-26T17:45:36.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","KEYWORDS":"MARRIAGE EQUALY"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}[PTN ID="ATTACHMENT_120786" ALIGN="ALIGNCENTER" WIDTH="550"] MARY LAMBERT WH RYAN LEWIS AND MACKLEMORE AT THE 2013 VMAS[/PTN]{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE 2014 GRAMMYS JT GOT A LOT MORE EXCG: THE NEW YORK TIM IS REPORTG THAT 34 GAY AND STRAIGHT UPL WILL BE WED DURG MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS' PERFORMANCE OF "SAME LOVE."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHO WILL OFFICIATE THIS AMAZG GROUP WEDDG? NONE OTHER THAN RAPPER/ACTRS/TALK-SHOW HOST QUEEN LATIFAH. (WILL 'TIFAH TAKE THE OPPORTUNY TO E OUT, OR JT GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO "MY PEOPLE"? WE'LL HAVE TO WA AND SEE){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LEWIS SAYS THE EVENT “WILL BE, OUR MDS, THE ULTIMATE STATEMENT OF EQUALY, THAT ALL THE UPL ARE ENTLED TO THE SAME EXACT THG.” HIS SISTER IS AMONG THOSE WHO WILL GET HCHED AT THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE CEREMONY WAS THE IA OF LONGTIME GRAMMYS PRODUCER KEN EHRLICH, WHOSE DGHTER IS A LBIAN, AND THE RAP DUO WERE EAGER TO JO . (LEWIS AND MACKLEMORE ARE NOMATED FOR SEVEN GRAMMYS TONIGHT, CLUDG SONG OF THE YEAR FOR “SAME LOVE.”) ERLICH SAYS THE EVENT REFLECTS HIS OWN PERSONAL BELIEFS, "BUT I WOULD NOT WANT TO MAKE A BROAD STATEMENT THAT REPRENTS THE VIEWS OF THE AMY OR THE CBS TELEVISN WORK.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GRAMMY EXECUTIV ARE ED PREPARED FOR SOME NEGATIVE BACKLASH: “I EXPECT THAT PEOPLE WH ALL KDS OF OPNS MIGHT VOICE THEM,” SAYS NATNAL AMY OF RERDG ARTS AND SCIENC PRINT NEIL PORTNOW. "AND THAT’S HEALTHY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WH MADONNA ALL BUT NFIRMED TO BE JOG THE BOYS FOR THE SONG, THIS ULD BE THE GAYT MOMENT ON TELEVISN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}[UMA_SNIPPET ID="1720876"]{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}MARRIAGE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

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.

A CHRISTIAN RPONSE TO THE GRAMMYS’ GAY WEDDG

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. 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.

KATY PERRY, THE GRAMMY’S, GAY WEDDGS AND WCHCRAFT

In a strangely nvoluted way, that was a kd of a PR victory for gay marriage. When even the notorly gay phobic hip-hop world has e around, ’s fair to nclu the sea has changed. 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. ") As more than one person poted out on Twter, bed wh the Daft Punk w, ’s easy to e away thkg the Grammys lik black mic only so long as ’s ma by whe ’s not a stretch, then, to see the Macklemore and Madonna weddg as an example of the Grammys likg gay people, so long as they’re reprented by and termixed wh straight on. "The marriag took place the aisle of the Stapl Center durg Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' performance of the gay rights anthem "Same Love.

The mic dtry's top night turned to the big day for 34 upl on Sunday as Madonna and other stars prid over a mass weddg a celebratn of gay 34 upl -- some same-sex, some oppose-sex and diverse race and appearance -- exchanged rgs before the Grammys stage at Los Angel' Stapl Center, which was momentarily transformed to a brightly l church wh a gospel upl' weddg serena was "Same Love, " performed by hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. Macklemore and Lewis, who racked up four Grammys cludg the prize for bt new artist, were joed halfway through their song by one of the gay muny's most endurg ins -- Madonna.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

Ehrlich was quoted as sayg that the upl stayed aisl near the dience out of ncern would be seen as "exploive" if they went on awards ceremoni have creasgly embraced gay rights recent years, wh the Osrs stereotypilly viewed as a top televisn event for the gay muny.

Same-sex marriage is legal all or part of 16 other mic dtry’s top night turned to the big day for 34 upl on Sunday as Madonna and other stars prid over a mass weddg a celebratn of gay marriage.

Macklemore and Lewis, who racked up four Grammys cludg the prize for bt new artist, were joed halfway through their song by one of the gay muny’s most endurg ins — Madonna. Seventeen US stat and the pal Washgton allow gay marriage, and opn polls show that a majory of Amerins support same-sex upl’ right to wed, a rapid turnaround jt the past .