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Elton John:Jesus Would Have Supported Gay Marriage
Sir Elton John, left, with civil partner David Furnish. The pair plan to marry next year.
Jesus would have been a supporter of gay marriage, Sir Elton John has claimed.
The musician, who plans to marry his civil partner David Furnish next year in a “very quiet” ceremony, said that rules preventing gay clergy from marrying and requiring Catholic priests to be celibate were “old and stupid things”.
He told Sky News’s Murnaghan programme: “The church hierarchy, the traditionalists, might be up in arms about it but times have changed.
“If Jesus Christ was alive today, I cannot see him, as the Christian person that he was and the great person that he was, saying this could not happen.
“He was all about love and compassion and forgiveness and trying to bring people together and that is what the church should be about.”
Sir Elton said he believed the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, was “doing a good job” and Pope Francis was “wonderful”.
“He’s excited me so much by his humanity,” the singer said of the pope.
“He’s taken everything down to the humility of faith.
“He’s stripped it down to the bare bones and said it’s all basically about love and inclusiveness. That has to be encouraged by the Church of England as well.”
The performer offered to introduce Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to members of the gay community earlier this year to show the impact of “deeply divisive” legislation.
He said he plans to meet with the Russian leader when he visits the country in November.
He added: “It’s no good putting up a wall and saying I’m not talking to these people; the only way things get solved is by talking to people.”
John said that he and his partner were not able to get married until next year because they were already in a civil partnership.
He said the marriage would be “very quiet and very off the cuff” as the couple had a big celebration for their civil union.
-The Guardian
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realistic
June 30, 2014 at 11:04 am
What a pity…….the thing I do not understand about gays and lesbians is that men still want to insert there penis in a hole (anas)and women still want items inserted in their vaginas.it all doesn’t make sense to me.Elton has choosen for himself the wide path,the Lord does not change with time,He is the same yesterday,today and forever……
Marquez
June 30, 2014 at 11:10 am
True, true, true!
And if that adulterer woman of the Bible was a homo, Jesus could have thrown the first stone himself!
Good boy
June 30, 2014 at 11:05 am
Please, leave the HOLY LORD out of your dirty imaginations. These whites with there nonsense thinking. JESUS is GOD, and therefore knew why man and woman were created. You will see which way you will go after death sir. Be careful, LESA ni malyotola, your day is coming, what I mean is whatever you are doing is of the devil.
Dobo Man
June 30, 2014 at 11:21 am
Pro creation . ****** John Eton. male en female he created them. Have u seen even animals male having sex with male?. anus is a sewage
whites brought christianity to africa,a bible in one hand and a gun in the other
June 30, 2014 at 12:36 pm
I believe in the one true God who has no partners,who never sleeps nor eats and that’s my creator!
rombe
June 30, 2014 at 12:39 pm
Elton John will regret such playfulness with God! before you utter a sentence in which God will be mentioned, think!
george mchinzi
June 30, 2014 at 1:35 pm
stop nosence.Jesus christ said man and woman make a marriege.u agnt of the devil hell is yours u will b punished
Kaluvariani
June 30, 2014 at 6:15 pm
Bufi! Ama jews yonse they condemn Sodom
ME
June 30, 2014 at 6:35 pm
Elton John imbushi yamuntu. Leave our lord Jesus out of your nonsense ideologies. You think the little dollars you have will save you from the wrath of God soon to come?
Pmk
June 30, 2014 at 7:05 pm
You devil what is your problem
tutu
June 30, 2014 at 8:09 pm
bafikala imwe bambi y do u condem ifiintu ifyo tafikumine zed? amachushi panganda tayachepane,the mo we tok f t,the mo abaiche balekopa. m nt in support of man on man sex but m o 4 woman on woman sex as long as m invited 2 watch..
melody
June 30, 2014 at 8:23 pm
whites feel like they are Gods ala bane lesa ni lesa.
RSK
June 30, 2014 at 10:04 pm
you can go to hell and you will die soon.pliz stop even send this nosence to your web it will atract some dull pipo to do so ths how ****** white pipo think .
Naine
June 30, 2014 at 11:00 pm
Elton john,musula wobe,waumfwa
Dee Mwansa
July 1, 2014 at 9:17 am
Sir Elton John should just shut up with his bullshit alitumpa sana ala!