{"id":352066,"date":"2010-02-19T17:00:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T22:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22740"},"modified":"2010-02-19T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T22:00:02","slug":"elton-john-jesus-was-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/352066","title":{"rendered":"Elton John: Jesus Was Gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22741\" style=\"margin: 10px 20px;\" title=\"Elton on Parade\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/elton-on-parade.jpg\" alt=\"Elton on Parade\" width=\"240\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Flamboyant British pop icon Elton John is making headlines for a controversial interview in, of all places, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parade.com\/celebrity\/celebrity-parade\/2010\/elton-john-web-exclusive.html\">Parade<\/a>, the (usually) boring Sunday newspaper magazine. Some choice samples:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just about every relationship I ever had was involved with drugs. It never works. But I always had to be with someone, good or bad, otherwise I didn&#8217;t feel fulfilled. I&#8217;d lost the plot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For some people a gram of cocaine can last a month. Not me. I have to do the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flamboyant British pop icon Elton John is making headlines for a controversial interview in, of all places, Parade, the (usually) boring Sunday newspaper magazine. Some choice samples: &#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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}