Elton John rips Georgia, USA, a new asshole

Honestly, WTF is going on over there in Georgia? Wanting to bring in laws that make it legal to refuse service to gays. Then using the fuckin bible to justify this bigoted behaviour. 

You can't just single out a whole minority and say you don't even want to serve them in a shop because you're so repulsed at them because of your fuckin lame shit religion. Just get over yourselves will you? Gays aren't monsters waiting to take your religion. They don't go to bed out night planning the evil takeover of the world FFS. Gays are just people like everyone else. 

Elton John writes a scathing attack on Georgia, worth reading the whole thing. Here's some of it:

When I moved to Atlanta in 1990, the nation was in the midst an HIV/AIDS crisis fueled by stigma and discrimination. I founded the Elton John AIDS Foundation here in Atlanta to fight the misunderstanding and prejudice at the heart of the epidemic, and to provide support and dignity to those battling the disease. 

In 1992, one of my dear friends and a founding board member of EJAF, Eli Saleeby, rushed a friend of his to Grady Memorial Hospital. His friend was suffering from full-blown AIDS. When they arrived at Grady, Eli’s friend was in excruciating pain and needed medical assistance right away. But the hospital staff was so fearful of HIV/AIDS, and the stigma surrounding the disease was so intense, that he was left alone, suffering, on a gurney in the hallway. No one would help him. 

Eighteen years later, in 2010, Eli was suffering from HIV/AIDS complications himself. He’d fallen down in a parking lot and was rushed to Grady by ambulance. This time, things were different. He had a six-person medical team that treated him with dignity and compassion. Eli ultimately lost his battle with HIV/AIDS, but he fought bravely, and he was supported every step of the way by caring physicians. 

I’m proud of the progress we have made, particularly in the South, in treating people living with HIV equally and compassionately. But we still have a long way to go. People living with HIV are still discriminated against in Georgia, and indeed, all across the United States. The rates of HIV/AIDS among LGBT people of color and low-income people remain disproportionately high, especially in the South. 

That’s why I’m so opposed to SB 129. more