ELTON JOHN RESPONDS TO GAY JESUS FURORE
Singer Elton John has responded to the controversy created by his recent comment that Jesus was a gay man.
John told Parade magazine, in an interview published last week in America, that he believes that Jesus was “…a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems”.
He added: “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.”
In the interview, John – who has been with his partner David Furnish for 16 years – also talked about his early attempts at relationships: “I’d always choose someone younger. I wanted to smother them with love. I’d take them around the world, try to educate them. One after another they got a Cartier watch, a Versace outfit, maybe a sports car. They didn’t have jobs. They were reliant on me. I did this repeatedly. In six months they were bored and hated my guts because I’d taken their lives and self-worth away. I hadn’t intended to.”
The comment about Jesus, however, has not gone down well with conservative Christians who have accused the 62 year old star of blasphemy.
In response, John said in a follow-up television interview with WGN: “I think everyone’s individual faith is their own business. And I do believe in Jesus, and I do believe he was a compassionate person. And I see him from my point of view, and that’s just my point of view, as a compassionate gay person – someone who was persecuted, someone who forgave people…
“That’s how I see him. That’s my idea of faith. If I’ve offended anybody, I don’t see why they should be offended by it, because I’m not saying, ‘That’s how he definitely was.’”
John also noted that while he might have made the comment about Jesus being a gay man in his conversation with the journalist, the quote is not actually in the published interview but was placed instead on the magazine’s website, which he said was “a kind of sneaky thing”.
Hey was looking for trouble making inflamatory statements with no real backing. Surroundling himself with male disciples is not a hit at homosexuality, it’s just how society worked in those times.
Attention Seeking Missile.
Elton will do anything to get attention these days instead of just making music… first he attacks Madonna, now Jesus. People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones!!!
Oh BLAH!!. Seriously! How close minded and conservative must you be to be offended by a throw away comment like that?
And let’s be honest, if anyone is trying to get mileage out of this junk, it’s the media.
This is the information age. We are exposed to everyone’s opinion on everything these days. And hey, most people are morons. Get over it!
Personal Jesus. Come now guys! We all need someone or something to believe in. If believing that Jesus was gay affirms your faith, then so be it. Remember that not deveryone has the same view of Jesus Christ being the Son of God, etc.
To each his own. However, I do believe that Lady Elton does need to remember that he needs to be careful about what he says.
….. Jesus, what a stupid thing to go into a furore about. Christians do not want to believe jesus was gay, neither that he had kids with Maria Magdalena. So maybe he was a-sexual.
To me he was HUMAN, that is why he was here. So he HAD to have SOME sexual desires…
Who cares what they were…