Posted on 12/28/2006 5:51:58 AM PST by Mike Bates
In a recent interview in The Observer's special "gay edition" of Music Monthly Magazine, musician Sir Elton John told the UK newspaper that religion should be outlawed because it lacks compassion and promotes hatred of homosexuals. In the Sunday, November 12, 2006 issue, John said, "I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays."
Is he talking about brands of radical Islam that oppose homosexuality? No, it seems like he's directing his fire at Christianity, or what's left of it, in Britain and other decadent Western societies.
Later in the same interview John added, "The reality is that organized religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate."
One is tempted to respond to this rant with the title of Laura Ingraham's book about Hollywood: Shut Up and Sing.
But there is another thing to consider: Why aren't Elton John's hateful comments as controversial as Michael Richards' anti-black "comic" diatribe? Is it because being scornful of religion is "in" among the entertainment and Hollywood elites?
John, who admitted to being bisexual in 1976, married Renate Blauel in 1984 and divorced her four years later. After his divorce from Blauel, John announced he was no longer bisexual but homosexual. In December of 2005, Sir Elton John, who was knighted in 1998, entered into a civil partnership with his gay partner David Furnish, in Berkshire, England.
John, who has only recently become an outspoken advocate of gay pride issues, admitted that his past drug addictions hampered his involvement. John said in the interview that he "never stood up to the AIDS thing because I was in a drug haze-even though my friends were dying left, right and centre. . . "
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I would bet there is more hatred in the 2% of the population that is gay towards religious folks then there is in religious folks towards gays.
Uh, you're talkin' about Elton I hope.
Uhmmmmm....let me think about that for a minute. ;-)
"Jesus freaks out in the street
Handin' tickets out for God"--Tiny Dancer
(aka Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza...)
"He named his son Jesus
'Cause he likes the name"--Levon
But sex with boy scouts is okay!!??
Only if he's hot.
Money makes some so called "Men" think they don't need God.
An aging, bitter, heterophobe opens his gob and effluent spews forth.
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