RSS Feeds  Queer marriage for the straight couple? I do!
Thursday - 8/8/2013, 4:49pm  ET   Associated Press  NEW YORK
(AP) -- No, it wasn't just an excuse to avoid getting hitched:
Some heterosexual couples who postponed their weddings until gay
couples had the right to marry are now making plans to say "I
do."    Staci Dennett, 25, is white. Her fiance, Nadir Karim,
25, is black. "Forty-six years ago, we couldn't have gotten
married in the South, just because of our skin color," said
Dennett, who compares the ban on interracial marriage to laws
against gay marriage. "It blows my mind!"  Dennett says she
agreed with Angelina Jolie's stand, and told Karim the same
thing: "I'm not going to get married until everyone can."  She
also kept thinking about a gay cousin who's in a relationship
and just had twins. "Any time I thought about inviting them to
my wedding, and asking them to be part of something where they
have no ability to have any of these rights, it just didn't sit
well with me," Dennett said.  Then i