what the crap??

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Elton John and Rush Limbaugh agree on same-sex marriage

As many of you know, Elton John caused a controversy this week by performing at anti-gay marriage radio host Rush Limbaugh.

Well, as it turns out, Elton John is anti-gay marriage as well!

Says John:

“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… 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… You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.”

You see, both he and Rush Limbaugh are opposed to gay marriage, but support civil unions.

(source)

Because nothing makes me happier than an openly gay celebrity speaking out against gay marriage!

Seriously, this is so disappointing. Civil unions are NOT marriage, people! They don’t provide the same rights at all!

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my god, are you for real. then get a civil union, you jackass. other people want to get married, and they should have the basic fucking right to.

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>:(

grrrrrrr

[amazonqueenkate.livejournal.com]

I kind of feeling like Elton John is being misrepresented here.

In the UK, civil partnerships have completely the same rights as marriage. It's just a different name to avoid the "marriage is sacred" kerfluffle.

While I am totally not on board with the fact that Elton John feels that marriage shouldn't be an option (because I don't think marriage is sacred, I think the term should apply to everyone, I think it's been really limiting and bigoted to have a different name for the same thing so that the icky gays aren't putting their fingers in the Christian pudding), there are a lot of people in the UK who feel the exact same way that Elton does because the rights afforded UK couples in a civil partnership are marriage rights, right down to a divorce process. The attitude there is very much, "I'm getting exactly what I want and I don't have to deal with people screaming that I am ruining the sanctity of anything, so who cares what the technical name is." A lot of gay couples go ahead and call themselves married even though they're techincally only civil-partnered.

So, while I think that's a fucked-up way of thinking, I also think representing Elton John as "against gay marriage" isn't entirely fair, because he is for all the rights afforded in marriage to be applied to gay couples, which happens in UK civil partnerships, just not in the US. (Because we are a bunch of douchebags, this side of the pond.)

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Aaaaand I think that's about as eloquent as I'm going to get for now.

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Oh ffs.

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I kinda saw this coming. I'm really not surprised.

[honeystix.livejournal.com]

a) The author of that article makes me want to punch him in the face. He sounds so fucking condescending the entire time, and he's a hypocritical asshole -- pleading for "civility" while calling the ladies on The View "hags?" Please, dipshit, get your head out of your ass.

b) WTF, Elton? I understand that gay rights in the UK are waaaaay better than here in the US -- I'm super happy you have marriage and all its rights and privileges under a different name, but you have to understand: In the US, a civil partnership is not equal to marriage. Plain and simple. Please know basic facts before you make an ass out of yourself.