Elton John may never become any kind of Christian leader, but he still thinks he should be.
On Sunday, according to the Washington Times, the ageing celeb said ‘that Jesus Christ would support the idea of two gay priests tying the knot and that the celibacy vow among clergy is an “old and stupid” rule that should be abolished’.
Mr. John, who hopes to ‘marry’ his sodomite civil partner David Furnish some time next year, said gay clergy should be allowed to ‘marry’ and have sexual relationships.
“These are old and stupid things. If Jesus Christ 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 said.
Apparently, the greater and more ‘Christian’ one is on planet Elton, the more one agrees that the rectum is an appropriate receptacle for the male anatomy.
That only confirms Elton as confused, crass and clueless about the Christian faith.
The Lord Jesus cannot be described as a ‘Christian person’ and he is alive. He was and is the Son of God who ministered on earth as a Jewish Pharisee, upheld and taught the laws of God and died on a cross to bear the sins of as many as would believe in him, sexual sins like sodomy included.
There is little evidence that Elton John understands this and even less that he has repented of his acts of sodomy and/or gross indecency with David Furnish and countless others. His ignorance of the Lord Jesus knows no bounds:
“He was all about love and compassion and forgiveness and trying to bring people together, and that’s what the church should be about.”
Actually, the Jesus we read about in scripture, not the one who is a figment of Elton’s imagination, is ‘all about’ division:
Luke 3:16 John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire: 17 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
Luke 12:51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
John 7:40 Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet. 41 Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee? 42 Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was? 43 So there was a division among the people because of him.
John 9:16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.
As to ‘love and compassion and forgiveness’, Elton, yes, the Lord Jesus will forgive all your sins if you turn to him, but if if you persist in your sin and go around promoting it in your pride and arrogance he will be a consuming fire.
The love of Christ is not some mawkish, sentimental endorsement of whatever goes, but a calling to repentance:
Mark 1:14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
2John 1:6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
Sir Elton told Sky News that ‘the global fight for gay rights was stalling’ and that he planned to talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin in November.
“Globally, we seem to have gone backwards over the last 18 months,” he said. “I will see Putin and talk to him. I don’t know what good it will do though.”
Let us hope and pray that President Putin will tell Elton John the truth, that sodomy is a act of abuse, that homosexual desires are vile affections and that Jesus Christ can release him from his sinful life. Then their meeting, if it takes place at all, will have done some good.
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Thank God for the states that still up hold decency and reject this abomination of a life style. Elton one day you will stand before God and have to give an account of your life whether you believe this or not. Enjoy your fame and carnal life while you can, the days are short!
(by the way Jesus also said this)
Matthew 12:36
But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.
This is a classic case of cherry picking on the account of Elton. I wonder when was the last time he read the book of Revelation. We see hear the risen Christ, the one who is LORD of LORDS and KING of KINGS, who will come and judge the world. He will not allow sexual perversion in heaven, along with a whole host of other sins.
Among the words which Stephen will have to account for on the Day of Judgement are “latchet” and “garner”. It would be nice meanwhile if he would explain to us what these things are, and also why Jesus carries a fan.
As for Sir Elton Hercules John, he is an ass. He has also praised the Pope for his tolerance, but recommended that he abolish priestly celibacy. In fact, if the Pope took all Reginald Dwight’s advice (to use the name he was born with), the Roman Catholic Church would begin to resemble rather more the already tolerant Church of England, but Mr Dwight doesn’t think to praise that institution. Is he, like Jimmy Savile, a Roman Catholic himself ? They must often have found the confessional booth awfully convenient if so.
I’m afraid that the Pope and President Putin may well not have heard of Elton John, and if he starts making his views known in Moscow he is likely get the same kind of response as Peter Tatchell. He really is idiotic.
It is ironic that people talk about the concept of forgiveness whilst denying the concept of sin. If there is no such thing as sin, what is there to forgive?
“Elton John: confused, crass and clueless”: and that’s his good points!!!
I feel so sorry for this poor creature – clearly he has been blinded by the devil and needs our prayers.
I’m a gay Jewish man who attends a Liberal Synagogue in London and I feel very honoured that both our straight and gay rabbis are in favour of same sex marriage ..Baruch Hashem in 2014
You should rather feel ashamed that your rabbis have lost track of God’s creation ordinance. I think you need a first-century rabbi to remind you:
Mark 10:6 (Jesus said:) But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
And being ‘one flesh’ in the full conjugal (not to mention emotional and spiritual) way intended is something a pair of homosexual men or women can never do, lacking as they do between them the full set of necessary complementary equipment.
Just for the record ‘ you describe Elton John’ s husband as a sodomite .shame on you .I’m well and truly ashamed of you as not all gay boys ‘ do it up the butt’ and loads of ‘ birth ‘ heterosexual Christians practice anal se
So you are happy for the label ‘sodomite’ to be attached to the 90% of homosexual men who are involved in that particular unsanitary, unhealthy, abusive activity?
Well, Nick, certainly not all gay boys ‘do it up the butt’ – there is only one gay pride I would respect, ie homosexuals who live a celibate life, as I do. I cannot imagine heterosexual Christians practising anal sex: do you have a figure?
Jesus carries a fan, indeed the ‘winnowing’ fan to shake the chaff from the wheat, as proclaimed by his cousin John The Baptiser. The late Lawrence Binyon took this theme up in his poem ‘The Fourth of August’ (later set to music by Sir E Elgar) in which he hinted that the First World War would shake the then establishments across Europe – and indeed within the UK , with the result that some things remained; some things changed and other things were completely blown away. In Britain the monarchy changed its surname; women were given the vote .. in Europe, former dynasties went .. the ‘Old Order’, as my grandparents’ generation knew it, was gone.
This winnowing fan was probably little more than a scoop with which to throw the grain/chaff mixture up into the air. The New English Bible has: ““I am not fit to unfasten his shoes. ..His shovel is ready in his hand, to winnow his threshing-floor and gather the wheat into his granary”.