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How Elton John has Changed Marriage
MercatorNet ^ | Apr 27, 2016 | Michael Cook

Posted on 04/27/2016 3:51:38 PM PDT by fwdude

Unless you live under a rock in a very shady part of the forest or in England or Wales, you have no doubt heard of the peculiar domestic arrangements of the world’s most famous gay marriage.

The British musician Elton John and his husband David Furnish, who married last December after several years in a civil partnership, have been in tabloid headlines around the world after revelations that Mr Furnish has been involved in trysts with other men.

Except, however, in England and Wales, where publication of anything about the sordid affair has been gagged.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; Philosophy; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: davidfurnish; eltonjohn; england; homosexualagenda; lgbt; marriage; samesexmarriage; ssm; uk; unitedkingdom; wales
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To: fwdude

“Mr Furnish has been involved in trysts with other men.”

HAHA! For some reason, this strikes me as hilarious. Elton John can’t get his “husband” to remain true to him. Fitting.


21 posted on 04/27/2016 4:34:44 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: fwdude


22 posted on 04/27/2016 4:41:31 PM PDT by Iron Munro (. - rOUND UOP)
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To: fwdude
Andrew Sullivan let this cat out of the bag, what, 20+ years ago in his book "Virtually Normal." He said gays would "help marriage grow" by elasticizing the definitions. They would enlighten straights about the advantages of allowing for plenty of sexual adventures with fascinating individuals other than their "spouses," while regarding their "marriages" as "faithful" because the self-described spouses still live under the same roof (mostly) and have not divorced each other.

Monogamy = exclusive.

Affairs = inclusive.

Inclusive is better because, well, inclusive. Because diverse. Get with the program.

23 posted on 04/27/2016 4:45:40 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (They say what's up is down, they say what isn't, is, they put ideas in his head he thought were his.)
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To: Shadow44

On the other hand, it WAS about “weddings.” Money, liquor, photography, clothes, pleasure, parties, opulence, picturesque locale, conspicuous consumption! It just wasn’t about marriage.


24 posted on 04/27/2016 4:49:08 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (They say what's up is down, they say what isn't, is, they put ideas in his head he thought were his.)
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To: fwdude

He has not changed marriage. He is a sinner. That does not change marriage.


25 posted on 04/27/2016 4:51:41 PM PDT by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: TalBlack
Live and let live is what we had before the lawless SC decision.

Actually it was much earlier, with Lawrence in 2003. That unleashed the militant torrent that lead to draconian "anti-discrimination" laws "protecting" sexual deviants and then wholesale marriage redefinition. Obergfell was just the "logical" conclusion to moral anarchy.

Now we have War; but most don’t realize it yet.

I cannot agree more. The war is raging, but most are too malaised to recognize it.

26 posted on 04/27/2016 4:54:08 PM PDT by fwdude
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To: TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed
Now, when we ask for a marriage licence application, we'll get to choose (if we're luck) between the honorifics "Husband," "wife," "thing 1," "thing 2," "party A," "party B" or some other such nonsense.

That's a kind of change, although the substance certainly hasn't, as you pointed out.

27 posted on 04/27/2016 4:58:48 PM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude
2008 Elton would sort of agree with you:

“Let’s get that straight. We have a civil partnership…I don’t want to be married! I’m 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”.

Where he and the rest of us will be in another 8 years, I don't know, but so far it looks like a good bet that gays will change marriage more than marriage changes gays. But those changes will be in a direction that the larger culture has been more than willing to go.

28 posted on 04/27/2016 5:01:24 PM PDT by x
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To: fwdude

Obergfell was wrongly decided, they had no jurisdiction.

In some states, first cousins can be married - in others, not so.

And this has been the law forever. No Supreme Court decision can change that.

Marriage is the province and part of the 10th amendment sovereignty of the states.

14th amendment or not!


29 posted on 04/27/2016 5:05:41 PM PDT by djf ("She wore a raspberry beret, the kind you find in a second hand store..." - Prince)
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To: tuffydoodle

I’ve wondered though, why do they seem to be called husbands instead of wives? Maybe because even fags don’t like to be called someone’s wife?


30 posted on 04/27/2016 5:12:49 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: fwdude

Except now the sodomites can purchase children.


31 posted on 04/27/2016 5:29:59 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Before Bruce Jenner there was Mike Penner)
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To: IronJack
But I ask you: is there anything more pathetic than a couple of old queens parading around?

Two old queens allowed to purchase children.

32 posted on 04/27/2016 5:32:10 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Before Bruce Jenner there was Mike Penner)
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To: fwdude

This is a little secret in the gay community. At least the men. My dear gay friend who is now dead (killed in a car accident) used to tell me this. That loving, attached gay couples can “cruise” together for someone to bring home and both share. Because they are all men and all attracted to men. I doubt every gay male couple is ok with that, maybe some do have the jealousy of straight couples (I’ve seen it in at least one couple, the most insecure guy will be super jealous). But there is much more leniency on what is “cheating” in the gay male world.


33 posted on 04/27/2016 5:35:00 PM PDT by Yaelle (Tinkerbelle glittering up the runway for Trump Force One!)
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To: fwdude

The old rumor was that gays LOVED musicals.

I think “Philadelphia” was a good movie,by the way.Almost anything Hanks does is good IMHO.

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34 posted on 04/27/2016 5:35:53 PM PDT by Mears
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To: fwdude
Is this crap something that anyone with half a damned brain should care about?

A pox on the homo, his music and his "husband".

35 posted on 04/27/2016 5:48:51 PM PDT by OldSmaj (I will be unable to find the Republican ballot box this election. They are lost. Not I.)
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To: fwdude

I do not recognize homosexual “marriage” as legitimate...no matter what the screwed up law says. The same leftist tools are declaring people are whatever sex they want to be. I refuse to give in.


36 posted on 04/27/2016 6:11:12 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: Shadow44

I know I’ve read that before, but this is the first time it speaks the truth.


37 posted on 04/27/2016 6:11:28 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: fwdude

Been a long time since I saw ‘Philadelphia’. Why didn’t he give it to his partner?


38 posted on 04/27/2016 6:14:53 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Old Grumpy

How do they keep from getting HIV, which will kill them 13 years earlier?


39 posted on 04/27/2016 6:18:39 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: bigbob

Wait’ll the transgenders change the language. Then, it’ll be illegal to refer to them as anything other than spouse.


40 posted on 04/27/2016 6:23:08 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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