Banning __(fill in the blank)__ ='s tolerance.....got it?
Elton John: 'I would ban religion completely'
"I think religion has always tried to turn hatred toward gay people," John said in the Observer newspaper's Music Monthly Magazine. "Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays."
"But there are so many people I know who are gay and love their religion," he said. "From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organized religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate."
John also criticized religious leaders for failing to do anything about conflicts around the world.
"Why aren't they having a conclave? Why aren't they coming together?"
John said those in his own field have been similarly lax.
"It's like the peace movement in the '60s. Musicians got through to people by getting out there and doing peace concerts, but we don't seem to do them any more," he said. "If John Lennon were alive today, he'd be leading it with a vengeance."
When I'm President, in order to counter the popular notion that celebrities deserve to be taken seriously when they talk, I will sign legislation that will force politicians to be taken seriously when they sing or act.
...This person should not be discussing politics:
...And this person should not be singing 'Rocket Man':
"I think religion has always tried to turn hatred toward gay people," John said in the Observer newspaper's Music Monthly Magazine. "Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays."
"But there are so many people I know who are gay and love their religion," he said. "From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organized religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate."
John also criticized religious leaders for failing to do anything about conflicts around the world.
"Why aren't they having a conclave? Why aren't they coming together?"
John said those in his own field have been similarly lax.
"It's like the peace movement in the '60s. Musicians got through to people by getting out there and doing peace concerts, but we don't seem to do them any more," he said. "If John Lennon were alive today, he'd be leading it with a vengeance."
When I'm President, in order to counter the popular notion that celebrities deserve to be taken seriously when they talk, I will sign legislation that will force politicians to be taken seriously when they sing or act.
...This person should not be discussing politics:
...And this person should not be singing 'Rocket Man':
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12:21 PM
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Will you also force the medical field to take my advice on how to cure cancer? I am a psychologist, after all.
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Scott Klajic, at 8:33 PM
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