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Elton John Criticizes California Proposition 8 for Focusing on Marriage
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... Singer, composer, entertainer, gay rights/AIDS activist, Elton John has criticized California’s Proposition 8 which reinstated California’s traditional definition of marriage last week. ...
Civil Unions Should Suffice For Gays Says…..Elton John?
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Pardon the expression, but here’s one from from left field that is sort of unexpected:
In December 2005, John and Furnish tied the knot in a civil partnership ceremony in Windsor, England. But, clarified the singer, “We’re not married. Let’s get that right. We have a civil partnership. What is wrong with Proposition 8 is that they went for marriage. Marriage is going to put a lot of people off, the word marriage.”
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“I don’t want to be married. I’m very happy with ...
Elton John Supports Prop 8
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The Crocodile Rocker had some surprising words for those protesting California's ban on same-sex marriage that passed on Nov. 4. John, accompanied by his longtime partner, David Furnisha at the benefit for the Elton John Aids Foundation in New York on Tuesday night told USA Today , "I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership," John says. "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 ...
Elton John is enlisted as an unlikely ally for pro-Proposition 8 fundraising efforts
Top of the Ticket —
... Flint sent out an e-mail solicitation decrying the tactics by some foes of the initiative and citing a USA Today article that quotes the performer as describing his partner and him as being in a civil partnership, not marriage, and how he prefers it that way. ...
WTF?! Elton John “Very Happy With Civil Union” Yes On 8 Solicitation
Firedoglake —
... OMG! Elton John, you're breaking my heart. And getting used by Yes-on-8 fund raisers in the aftermath of the passage of ballot initiative that eliminated same-sex marriage in California. In an interview with USA Today the openly gay icon--who united with partner David Furness in a 2005 English civil ceremony-- said: ...
Even Elton John Opposes Homosexual Marriage
Moonbattery —
... It isn't just the mostly Democrat voters of California who oppose the gratuitous sacrilege of homosexual marriage. So does flamboyantly gay pop star Elton John: ...
