Elton John feels like second-class citizen

It looks as though Elton John has finally taken enough harassment and persuasion behind the scenes and is now falling in line to what a “proper gay” should think.

“ “In this country, we need more dialogue,” he said during an interview Friday. “We don’t need any more stone throwing. We don’t need any more vitriol. We need people to say, ‘OK. I’m straight. You’re gay. Let’s get along. I’m Republican. You’re Democratic. Let’s work together.’ I’m sick and tired of people being hateful to each other in this country.”

John disappointed some gay rights activists after California’s Proposition 8 banning gay marriage passed in 2008 when he said he had no desire to get married and was satisfied with his civil partnership in England. He sang a different tune Wednesday when he praised the effort to overturn Proposition 8 and promised to do everything he could to support it, even though he is British.”

Notice how he is now using the progressive left wing language like “vitriol”. Let’s face it, progressives just were not going to allow him to have a mind of his own on this issue especially after singing at Rush Limbaugh’s wedding. Sometimes a person can only take so much criticism before they fall in line.

Elton John has said he supports civil unions before.

"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."

Elton John feels like ’second-class citizen’

Secularism means it’s not my fault

 

“Religion can be a real drag. So it is little wonder that many Canadians have fled the pews for a life of freedom under reason instead of dogma.

Who needs all that guilt and all those rules? We’re all adults here, are we not?

The most popular objection to religion is that it replaces thinking with sets of unprovable truths — and that the rules flowing out of those truths turn adherents into robots. Those who leave religion behind, we are led to understand, will begin to think for themselves and thereby exercise real freedom as responsible citizens.

This is the theory. But that is not how things have turned out.

As Western societies have become more secular, they have become even more self-pitying and more likely to blame their travails on amorphous entities. Instead of promoting personal freedom, and the responsibility that comes with it, secularism has given us an expansive vocabulary for saying “It’s not my fault.””

“What religion teaches is that the dignity of each person is paramount. It also teaches that with this exalted state comes responsibility. Never go into a Catholic confessional and blame your abusive behaviour toward your own wife and children on a “culture permeated with violence.” God gave you the right to choose right or wrong, a smart priest would say, and you made the wrong choice. Now get help, repent, pray and fix it.

Never tell a Baptist minister that you spend half your evenings in the basement cruising porn sites because “television and advertising is saturated with sexually explicit material.” Even the least clever of clergy might suggest not watching those shows. So simple; so difficult.

Jews fast on Yom Kippur to make-up for the things they have done wrong through the year. It is not a magic solution to making guilt disappear. In fact, being forced to face one’s own sins can produce guilt, as it should. The point is to feel the pain of those wrongs, make it right with God and move on. It is the reason it is called the Day of Atonement and not the Day of Whining.”

Read the whole article at the link below.

With secularism has come a million new ways of saying “it’s not my fault”

Airport thinks toy soldier's three-inch rifle is safety threat

“The crouching, camouflaged figure is most certainly armed. But few would say he was dangerous. Security officials disagreed however when he passed through a scanner at Gatwick Airport. His three-inch, plastic toy gun was branded a ‘firearm’ and banned from a transatlantic flight.”

The fall of the UK continues as their common sense flies out the window. Progressive overreaction to threats at airports leads to this lack of critical thinking.
Airport bans toy soldier's three-inch rifle from plane because it's a safety threat

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Dire Straits Money for Nothing Banned in Canada

1980's radio was dominated by the mega hit "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits. There was a complaint in Newfoundland, Canada about the following part of the song:

The term "faggot" was deemed offensive by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council so the song will not be heard on Canadian radio ever again.

I have an interesting take on this issue in an opinion piece I wrote over at sodahead.com. Give your opinion and participate in the poll over at SodaHead.