Sir Elton ponders wedding
2004-03-04 07:44
New York - Sir Elton John plans to wed his longtime lover David Furnish as soon as Britain changes its laws, the New York Post reported on Wednesday.
The flamboyant star told the paper that he plans to wed in the United Kingdom as soon parliament amends the law to allow civil unions.
"We're definitely going to do it when it gets passed," John said. "I would like to commit myself to David. I already have in my mind anyway."
"I was on the fence about it for a while," John said. "(Now) I'm totally for it. In this day and age, if people who want to make a life commitment can't have protection, then we live in a pretty sick world," he said.
John, who married Renate Blauel in Australia in 1984 and divorced her in 1988, said it was President George W Bush's proposed constitutional amendment outlawing gay marriage that was the final push down the aisle he needed.
John, 56, and Furnish, 40, have been a couple for 11 years and have been called "the most conspicuous gay couple in the world" by the London Observer. - Sapa-dpa
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