Grammy Awards to Feature Live Homosexual Marriage Ceremonies

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Dozens of couples will marry on air during Sunday night’s live broadcast of the music industry’s annual Grammy Awards as Macklemore & Ryan Lewis perform their nominated song “Same Love,” which has become an anthem in the campaign for legal gay marriage, the New York Times reported.

Queen Latifah will officiate at the nuptials, with pop diva Madonna performing the song with the hip hop duo and featured vocalist Mary Lambert, the Times said.

Lewis said that the weddings, including 34 couples of various ages and races, some gay, some straight, “will be in our minds the ultimate statement of equality, that all the couples are entitled to the same exact thing,” the report said.

“We’re serious about this,” the Times quoted Ken Ehrlich, the longtime producer of the Grammys, as saying.

Ehrlich, noting that the segment reflected his own personal beliefs – he has a gay daughter – said, “I would not want to make a broad statement that it represents the views of the academy or the CBS television network,” which broadcasts the awards live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles at 8 p.m. PST (0400 GMT on Monday).