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Elton John bashes Scottish Cardinal over gay stance
15 June 2000
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In a letter to UK magazine The Spectator, openly gay English pop star Sir Elton John (Reginald Dwight) has attacked the homophobic views of Scotland’s senior Roman Catholic, Cardinal Thomas Winning.
    Last week’s Spectator carried an article by Winning in which he wrote “...gay sex is wrong, because such behaviour is not good for the human person... Far from liberating a person, it ensnares them in a lifestyle that can never respond to the deepest longings of the human heart.” John replied “Cardinal Winning, and his ignorance, is totally representative of why people are turning away from the Church... I am astonished to be told by Cardinal Winning that my sexuality is not good for me... From what practical perspective does he form this point of view?”
    Elton John continues a European/UK tour on Saturday at Hauptplatz in Loeben, Austria. | BBC story | | Elton John | | The Spectator | | discography | | sample | | top of page |


 


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