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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/elton-second-class-citizen-in-us.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Sir Elton John has explained why he spoke out about California's gay marriage ban" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-elton-second-class-citizen-in-us.jpg" alt="Sir Elton John has explained why he spoke out about California's gay marriage ban"/></a></p>
<p>Sir Elton John is &#8220;fed up&#8221; with being a treated like a &#8220;second-class citizen&#8221; in the US.</p>
<p>That&#8217;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&#8217;s gay marriage ban. The outspoken British piano man, who became a parent to a baby boy on Christmas Day with partner David Furnish, added that &#8220;as I get older, I get more angry about it&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;In this country, we need more dialogue,&#8221; he said during an interview. &#8220;We don&#8217;t need any more stone throwing. We don&#8217;t need any more vitriol. We need people to say, &#8216;OK. I&#8217;m straight. You&#8217;re gay. Let&#8217;s get along. I&#8217;m Republican. You&#8217;re Democratic. Let&#8217;s work together.&#8217; I&#8217;m sick and tired of people being hateful to each other in this country.&#8221;</p>
<p>Elton disappointed some gay rights activists after California&#8217;s Proposition 8 banning gay marriage passed in 2008 when he said he had no desire to get married and was satisfied with his civil partnership in England. He sang a different tune last week when he praised the effort to overturn Proposition 8 and promised to do everything he could to support it, even though he is British.</p>
<p>The couple&#8217;s son, Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, was born in California through a surrogate mother. Elton said he was disappointed that members of the Church of England questioned his parenthood in the days following his son&#8217;s birth. He insisted that he&#8217;s not against religion and that &#8220;Jesus was a wonderful, compassionate man, who forgave on the cross&#8221;.</p>
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