Elton John: Where Prop 8 went wrong
By Andy Kropa, AP
"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," said Elton John, who cemented his relationship with David Furnish
in 2005. "The word marriage, I think, puts a lot of people off. "
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By Donna Freydkin, USA TODAY
NEW YORK — Sir Elton John, accompanied by his longtime partner David Furnish,
had some choice words about California's Proposition 8, the ban on same-sex
marriage that passed on Nov. 4.
In December 2005, John and Furnish tied the knot in a civil partnership
ceremony in Windsor, England. But, clarified the singer, "We're not married.
Let's get that right. We have a civil partnership. What is wrong with
Proposition 8 is that they went for marriage. Marriage is going to put a lot of
people off, the word marriage."
John and Furnish, and their two cocker spaniels Marilyn and Arthur, were in
town for Monday's annual benefit for the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
"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," said John. "The word marriage, I think, puts a lot of people off.
You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership.
Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships."
The dinner, held at Cipriani Wall Street, was hosted by CNN's Anderson Cooper
and featured a performance from Gladys Knight. John's foundation gets a
four-star rating, the highest available, from CharityNavigator.com and John, in
his speech, called for the enactment of a national AIDS policy.
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What does the annual gala mean to him? "It means we get to see our friends on
the East Coast who support us so much. It's a staple event for us on our
calendar in America. We do the Oscar party on the West Coast and we do this on
the East Coast," he said.
