According to the Associated Press
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"I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards 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."
It is pretty clear that religion does promote homophobia, thank you Sir Elton, for pointing this out. Now that we have achieved a Democratic majority we should be able to pass hate crime statues against anti-gay violence and prejudice.
Because America has a time honored tradition of separation beteween Church and State, every Church that does not believe in gay equality or gay marriage should have their tax-exempt status revoked.
The RepubliKKKlans and the Religious REICH have gotten away for far too long with bigotry and homophobia, it is time for progressives to make some serious butt kicking and send these fundies to reeducation camps so that they may heed and respect the American way.