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  • I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. But there are so many people I know who are gay and love their religion. From my point of view I would ban religion completely. Organised religion doesn`t seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it`s not really compassionate ... The world is near escalating to World War Three and where are the leaders of each religion? Why aren`t they having a conclave? Why aren`t they coming together? I said this after 9/11 and people thought I was nuts. Instead of more violence why isn`t there a meeting of religious leaders? It`s like the peace movement in the Sixties. Musicians got through to people by getting out there and doing peace concerts but we don`t seem to do them any more. If John Lennon were alive today he`d be leading it with a vengeance. They seem to do their protesting on-line and that`s not good enough. You have to get out there and be seen to be vocal, and you`ve got to do it time and time again. There was a big march in London when Britain decided to join the war against Iraq and Tony Blair is on the record as saying `the people who march today will have blood on their hands`. That`s returned to bite him on the ass. People come to me and I`m a bit like the Queen Mother. I never get those problems. I don`t know what it is with me, people treat me very reverently. It was the same when Dave and I had our civil union - I was expecting the odd flour bomb and there wasn`t. Dave and I as a couple seem to be the acceptable face of gayness, and that`s great. I`m going to fight for them whether I do it silently behind the scenes or so vocally that I get locked up. I can`t just sit back - it`s not in my nature any more. I`m nearly sixty years old after all. I can`t sit back and blindly ignore it and I won`t. Elton John