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Elton
John:
Religion
Danger To Gay Health
by AP
from 365Gay.com November 12, 2006
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London -- Organized religion
fuels anti-gay discrimination and other forms of bias, pop star Elton John said
in an interview published Saturday.
"I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards 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."
Religious leaders have also failed to do anything about tensions and conflicts
around the world, he said.
"Why aren't they having a conclave? Why aren't they coming together?" he
asked.
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."
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