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Elton John: 'I Would Ban Religion Completely'
By The Associated Press
November 13, 2006
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 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." (AP)
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