Social conservatives are livid that CBS
aired a gay-inclusive mass wedding during Sunday's Grammy Awards
show.
Queen Latifah presided over 33
marriages during a live performance of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' gay
marriage anthem Same Love.
(Related: Madonna,
Queen Latifah join Macklemore at Grammy's Same
Love
Weddings.)
Conservative commentator Erik Rush said
the performance was led by a “disgusting pack of subverts” and
that it made him “want to vomit.”
“I've never seen such a display of
intolerance, bigotry and hatred. #Grammys #antichristian,” Fox News
contributor Todd Starnes tweeted.
Radio host Lynn Woolley claimed in a
post titled Gay Agenda Takes Over Grammys that the
“celebration of perversity” proves that “homosexuals have taken
over the country.”
The Drudge Report ran with the
headline The Gaymmys!
Appearing on Fox
News, Tim Graham of the Christian conservative Media Research Center,
said the performance mocked traditional values.
“They can say
this is not a stunt, but that's exactly what it is, a piece of
musical agitprop to mock the traditional values of conservative
American Christians, Jews, Muslims and others. Entertainers never
want to have a debate, just a series of arrogant 'statements' with no
opportunity for a conversation as they flush the Bible on national
TV,” Graham said.
Christian conservative Ben Ferguson
tweeted that the Grammys showed “intolerance toward Christians and
Bible believers.”