Posted on 01/20/2011 1:30:09 PM PST by NYer
Elton John and partner David Furnish may have fame, fortune and a loving family, but the 'Rocket Man' singer won't be satisfied until gay couples are granted the same rights as their heterosexual counterparts.
Last night at billionaire Ron Burkle's Los Angeles fundraiser to overturn Proposition 8, the new father had some choice words for those who oppose gay marriage, RadarOnline.com reports.
"I think I have it all," said the singer, who welcomed son Zachary via surrogate last month. "I have a wonderful career, a wonderful life. I have my health, I have a partner of 17 years, and now I have a son. I don't have everything because I don't have the respect of people like the church or like politicians who tell me that I'm not worthy, that I'm lesser because I'm gay, well f**k you!"
John performed a 90-minute set of both new material and his classic hits for the 750-person crowd, which included 'Glee' star Jane Lynch and her partner, Dr. Lara Embry.
During the event, which raised more than $3 million for the restoration of marriage equality, John continued to voice his frustration over the disparity between his rights and those of other parents.
"Here I am sitting with a wedding ring and I'm with my partner and we have a son, but we couldn't get married," he said.
Despite his joy over the birth of Zachary, John's road to fatherhood hasn't been without obstacles. Just last year, John and Furnish were turned down after trying to adopt an HIV-positive boy from the Ukraine, where civil marriages are not legally recognized.
John does, however, have hope for the future. "We have a right to be recognized as a human being. We have to fight the good fight," he said. "And we will win."
Reginald only had his career because of Bernie Taupin.
No - - ‘F**k You’ I am Against Gay Marriage.
I have no animus towards those who choose the gay lifestyle. None of my business but for the constant culture clash coming down on the rest of us by your demand and manipulation of the law.
Marriage is between a Man and a Woman.
You demand equality under the law and there simply isn’t any.
Are you in a commited relationship? Okay, let’s say you are.
Why should I want to rewrite all the love songs for man and women to support your idea of hate speech?
Why should I want to rewrite all the poetry for the love between a man and a woman?
Why should I want to rewrite any other romantic ideal between a man and woman who wish to become a married couple?
For that matter, you seek to legislate your equality and that will eventually mean I cannot use the Bible as the basis for my beliefs of marriage between a man and a woman?
You want to commit to each other in some permanent sense? Fine, I don’t care but it isn’t marriage in any sense of the word.
Call it whatever you want and I have no suggestions but it isn’t marriage. Your man partner is not your wife and the both of you can not be husband to each other.
Now, tell me the benefits, that are unassailable, for changing all of society to suit your need for parity through legislation which in truth will never exist.
ELTON JOHN SOLVES GAY MARRIAGE CONTROVERSY
Were not married, he told the press, Lets get that straight. We have a civil partnership
I dont want to be married! Im very happy with a civil partnership. The word marriage, I think, puts a lot of people off. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.
If it were really marriage, why do they have to put the word “gay” in front of it?
Does anyone call it straight marriage? LOL
Sorry, you can pretend all day it’s something that it’s not. Even if you get the government to agree with you.
Marriage is man and woman.
That's an oxymoron coming from you, Elton.
From November 2008:
Elton John is against gay marriage, says civil unions are for same sex couples
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the law can not force respect.
he has always been a kook and he still is a kook. No law will change that.
It ain't no wedding ring unless your "partner" is your wife and female.
and we have a son
something "gay partners" can't create on their own.
Thanks for posting that. I remember when he said all that and had a bit of respect for him because of it. I guess he was finally fully co-opted by the gay agenda..
He’s a shining example of a “conservative” homosexual. I suspect that his opinion has been the same all along but he thinks the “climate” has changed and he’s jumping on the bandwagon.
WELL... One can't restore a perverted institution upon society that has never existed and can never exist -I think the proper term is imposition by force.
Regardless, I wonder just what 'they' plan on doing with the money they raise -bribe judges?
Here’s the problem. Marriage is for the family, and for kids. If one guy shoots genetic material up another man’s bum, I don’t think a baby will be in the offing.
Men and women are different. It’s that simple - two halves of a whole - in conflict with each other and completion at the same time.
If they were interchangeable, men would bleed from their asses once a month, and women . . . well who really knows about women?
I don’t think anyone wakes up one day wanting to be gay. I think gay people think that if they were just more accepted in society, they’d all feel much better about themselves.
I think they’re wrong. You can make gay the new black and make heterosexual marriage a crime and its not going to change the way they feel at night alone with their god, whoever that may be.
Religiously, I believe Satan’s out to pervert and reverse what God hath wrought. Jesus created marriage himself, and specifically called for it being between man and woman. Their union enables humans to act as God does - it gives them the ability - together - to create a person.
Between homosexuality and abortion, you have the antithesis of marriage. Men depositing their essence in the waste canal of other men - an act of utter and deliberate futility.
Demons at war with demons, however. Women would sacrifice human beings at the altar of convenience, while sodomists go in search of these same children in order to build families.
There are no telethons for homosexuality. A cure for homosexuality would imperil an entire political movement. You’d think breast cancer was killing people instantly by the hundreds based on what you see on TV.
HIV is the cure they seek. Find a cure for HIV, and suddenly being homosexual doesn’t have to be a physical death sentence the way it is now.
Especially after he played at Rush’s wedding, the gay mafia got to him.
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I suspect that you are exactly right.
No, thank you, I wouldn’t want it in the butt.
Hey Reggie! F#*k yourself, you’ll get more pussy!
Didnt he say he was against gay marriage.
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He was, but then he went to Rush’s wedding and saw how beautiful it was, and he shed a tear and decided I’m in.....
He did! He said “civil unions are for us”. Some of his leftist buddies must have had a little chat with him and got his “mind right”.
>> Title: Elton John: ‘F**k You’ If You’re Against Gay Marriage
Did he say that while he was on his knees? God frowns.
>> I liked his earlier stuff but he’s just a dried up old hag in my book now.
I believe his earlier stuff was written by some guy named Bernie. His compositions are very week from what I recall hearing on the radio years ago.
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