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Elton John: “Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man”
Pop legend Elton John opens up about everything from romance to religion in this week’s Parade Magazine, in the Dayton Daily News this Sunday, Feb. 21.
“I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don’t know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East — you’re as good as dead,” he reportedly says in an article by Dotson Rader.
The article coincides with John’s annual Oscar bash for his AIDS Foundation.
John discusses the death of his famous friends, including Princess Diana and Gianni Versace. He also discusses passings of not so famous friends.
“Every time I sing ‘The Ballad of the Boy in the Red Shoes’ onstage, I say that this is a song written about a time when people in America started getting AIDS and your president, Ronald Reagan, did nothing about it. I get boos. There’s a lot of hate in the world,” John said.
He says he wants to make the world a better place.
“I set up my foundation because I wanted to make amends for the years I was a drug addict. People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.”
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By Disgusted
February 18, 2010 11:48 AM | Link to this
When did the DDN become a tabloid that searches for garbage to sell papers. This is bad and this reporter is getting more and more risque in her comments and reports.
By Ordinary Person
February 18, 2010 11:57 AM | Link to this
Oh stuff it. If Elton John said that then she’s only reporting what he said publicly. Go find something else to bash, like your head on the wall.
By Thinker
February 18, 2010 12:51 PM | Link to this
This is what years of drugs will do to a brain. Elton’s gray matter is apparantly pea soup. Why would this third-rate site post such a moronic article?
By middsteve
February 18, 2010 11:51 PM | Link to this
Elton I threw all your albums in the fire when you came out.Now just go away and be an old,happy,qu**r.
By middsteve hates people
February 19, 2010 7:52 AM | Link to this
What you got planned for today, middsteve? Gonna burn some books or paint some swastikas on your neighbor’s house?
By zendell
February 19, 2010 7:23 PM | Link to this
Genesis 1:27 and Roman 1:27) When God created a partner for Adam He created Eve - not another Adam. If God intended the human race to be multiplied through homosexuals there would be no human race. Mark 2:17 “Jesus said to his disciples, I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” He did not come to marry but to call all to repentence.
By zendell
February 19, 2010 7:30 PM | Link to this
You are wird and sick. You are mad and gay as a hatter.