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Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
So, again, what does his citizenship have to do with it?
I could also leave the country if I want.
Doesn't mean that I don't care about inequality just because it doesn't affect me personally
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Asked and answered. Go back and re-read.
Oh .. now you are just teasing me!
Again .. he didn't say what it was that makes him feel like he's being treated like a second class citizen.
All he's doing is living (part time in Atlanta and California?) in this country and whining
that he's a 'second class citizen' ..
In the past he has stated that he's got a civil union in England
and he is happy with that and doesn't want to be married.
Is there something inherently unacceptable in complaining about being treated like a second class citizen?
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
Let's say a decree came down that women can not obtain drivers licenses. No more driving for women. Now. A woman who doesn't want to drive can still feel as though she's treated as a second-class citizen, even though SHE may not want to drive right now. Maybe sometime down the line, who knows? She may just want to drive. But because of this ridiculous decree, she won't have the choice. Because she's a woman. She can still feel that she's treated as a second class citizen because her gender takes the choice away.
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
Answer shown to be a sham. Re-reading it isn't going to make it make sense.
I'm assuming because of the context, that it's California's gay marriage ban.
Is there something inherently unacceptable in complaining about being treated like a second class citizen?
Let's put this in terms of women instead of gay people because that's something that we both can relate to.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
* That's the title of one of the articles .. using his words of 'fed up' and 'second class citizen'
The articles don't say how exactly he feels like a second class citizen here. No exact list of complaints as to why the US allegedly treats him like a second class citizen. He complains about political rhetoric in the USA and he complains about the Church of England being behind the times .. but he doesnt' specify why exactly he thinks he's being treated as a 'second class' citizen here in the USA.
Sir Elton John is "fed up" with being a treated like a "second-class citizen" in the U.S.
That's why the 63-year-old gay singer said he took a stand last week during a performance at a private Beverly Hills fundraiser for the ongoing legal challenge to California's gay marriage ban
The couple's son, Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, was born in California through a surrogate mother. John said he was disappointed that members of the Church of England questioned his parenthood in the days following his son's birth. He insisted that he's not against religion and that "Jesus was a wonderful, compassionate man, who forgave on the cross."
Originally posted by Crutchley29
I wish i had Eltons problems.
Originally posted by clay2 baraka
You are being deliberately obtuse so as to drive debate, i.e. "trolling."