“Jesus Would Have Supported Gay Marriage” – Elton John Says
Jesus would have been a supporter of gay marriage, Sir Elton John has
claimed. Sir Elton John, left, with civil partner David Furnish. The
pair plan to marry next year.
Elton John has said he believes Jesus would be fine with gay marriage
if he were alive today. The veteran singer, who plans to marry his
civil partner David Furnish next year in a “very quiet” ceremony, told
Sky News that in his view, Jesus would accept it because he was “all
about love and compassion”.
He claimed that rules preventing gay priests from marrying and requiring Catholic priests to be celibate were “old and stupid”.
“If Jesus was alive today, I cannot see him, as the Christian person
that he was and the great person that he was, saying this could not
happen, ” he told Sky News.
“He was all about love and compassion and forgiveness and trying to
bring people together and that is what the church should be about.”
He praised Pope Francis for making the Catholic Church more about
“inclusiveness”, saying that this “has to be encouraged by the Church of
England as well”.
He described the pontiff as a “wonderful” man whose tolerance was an example to the Church.
“The new Pope has been wonderful, he’s excited me so much,” Sir Elton said.
“He’s stripped it [the Church] down to the bare bones and said it’s all basically about love.”
Sir Elton previously courted controversy on the subject in 2010 when
he declared that Jesus was gay, telling a magazine: “I think Jesus was a
compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human
problems.”
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