Posted on 01/27/2014 11:31:46 AM PST by Phillyred
It’s not every day 33 couples of different types — same-sex, heterosexual, interracial — tie the knot at once on live TV. In fact, it was unprecedented…until the 56th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night. During their performance of “Same Love,” Grammy-award winning duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis were joined on stage by Queen Latifah, who officiated a mass wedding, followed by a surprise performance by Madonna, who sang her hit “Open Your Heart.” “I look forward to the day when presiding over a historic wedding ceremony like this is just the norm,” Latifah, 43, told reporters backstage after the epic event. “To me, it was special to all the couples we married today and I look forward to dashing off to go sign their marriage certificates. It’s awesome.” Planned in only two weeks, the triple threat explained how she could legally perform the ceremony. “I had to get sworn in as a commissioner for the state of California, so I’m not an ordained minister like I said, but I’m a commissioner,” she said. “So you can call me to commish – Queen Commish!” Unfortunately, the title of “Queen Commish” expired shortly after the Grammy performance. “If you come see me before 12 o’clock tonight, I got you,” Latifah responded, when asked if she could marry couples in the future. “If not, you’ll have to take the regular route.” As far as her own love life is concerned, Latifah said she prefers to keep that private. “Would I get married on national TV? Um, would I? Maybe…but probably not,” she admitted. “That would probably be something I would keep for me.”
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Agreed. Setting any question of faith aside, there's a lot of sense written into those pages.
People are fools to mock it.
Not possible. If it is "the norm" then by definition it is not "historic" - and vice-versa.
See, this is why marriage power needs to be taken away from the State, and put back under the 1st Amendment ALONE in the churches. People are running around arguing with crocodiles, instead of just draining the swamp.
Queen of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Then they’ll be after the churches....well that’s coming next anyway. It will never end.
They do realize that she’s not a real queen.
I used to like Dana Owens ( her real name ) too but she’s now a bit much for my taste.
Gimme a break - all of the couples were liberal democrats. Most were elites or thought of themselves as elites. How the hell were they 'different'?
If they had wanted 'different' they could have included a conservative Christian or Jewish couple.
Gimme a break - all of the couples were liberal democrats. Most were elites or thought of themselves as elites. How the hell were they 'different'?
If they had wanted 'different' they could have included a conservative Christian or Jewish couple.
We don't find them 'shocking' anymore.
And really, what else have they got?
Except the “Loon’s” mass weddings were men with women, some of whom only met their brides that day.
She’s a celebrity/entertainer.
Never trust them.
Yes, I agree. She was one of the few individuals who seemed like she had a good, fair, and respectable head on her shoulders.
She, too, has been deceived or has chosen to ignore the reality of how homosexual behavior destroys not only the culture, but individual lives.
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