{"id":668849,"date":"2010-02-18T19:06:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T00:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=93697"},"modified":"2010-02-18T19:06:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T00:06:44","slug":"elton-john-%e2%80%9cjesus-was-gay%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/668849","title":{"rendered":"Elton John: \u201cJesus Was Gay\u2026\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Elton John sat down for an interesting interview &#8212; where he chats candidly on celebrity, his relationship with longtime partner David Furnish and his conviction that Jesus was gay &#8212; in this week&#8217;s issue of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parade.com\/celebrity\/celebrity-parade\/2010\/elton-john-web-exclusive.html\">Parade<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don&#8217;t know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East &#8212; you&#8217;re as good as dead&#8230;..&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Uh-oh, controversy&#8217;s a&#8217;comin! This should rattle some good old-fashioned Christian outrage over at the Vatican and throughout middle America. (<em>Grabs popcorn and awaits the fallout&#8230;..<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Elton-John-Parade-Magazine-Feb.-21-500x529.jpg?resize=500%2C529\" alt=\"\" title=\"Elton John Parade Magazine Feb. 21\" width=\"500\" height=\"529\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-93698\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/hx6xgllhO8sP23T9hvHak02GBrA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/hx6xgllhO8sP23T9hvHak02GBrA\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/hx6xgllhO8sP23T9hvHak02GBrA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/hx6xgllhO8sP23T9hvHak02GBrA\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Elton John sat down for an interesting interview &#8212; where he chats candidly on celebrity, his relationship with longtime partner David Furnish and his conviction that Jesus was gay &#8212; in this week&#8217;s issue of Parade. &#8220;I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2NZT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}