If you read accounts of Elton John’s life, it is widely-known that he has never wanted children. Previously content to be godfather to at least a dozen little rugrats, it sounds like Sir Elton has changed his mind.
The pop signer[sic] toured a hospital for HIV-infected children in eastern Ukraine on Saturday as part of a charity project and said that he and his male partner David Furnish wanted to adopt an HIV-infected boy named Lev.
But the country’s Family, Youth and Sports Minister Yuriy Pavlenko told The Associated Press that adoptive parents must be married and Ukraine does not recognize homosexual unions as marriage.
John and Furnish, his longtime partner, tied the knot in 2005 in one of the first legalized civil unions in the United Kingdom.
Well, it’s a shame that the Ukraine doesn’t recognize gay marriage — he could probably go all Madonna-ish and throw some bucks at that law –but there are bigger issues at hand here. Saturday (aka 48 hours ago) I wanted to change my hair color to red. I’ve never wanted to be a red head in 37 years, but Saturday it just struck me as a good idea. Now it’s Monday and I’m over it. Sometimes you just have to ride out these fleeting fancies.
In addition to never having had a desire to be a parent before this past weekend, Elton is 62 years old. If he was a woman with a viable uterus and a sperm donor, the public would be freaking out right now.
Yeah he is way too old to be adopting, but the kid does have HIV so it probably won’t live that long anyways. (Ouch I’m evil)
he could just adopt one from UK!
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Yeah, and you are wrong. HIV patients can live a normal life nowadays.
Magic Johnson has been living with HIV for over 30 years, and is not showing signs of developing AIDS
i dont know… would the world be freaking out? I think the two situations are completely different. On the one hand, we have a single older woman wanting to bring a new life into this world, knowing that she may not even be around long enough to see this child she HAD to create finish high school. On the other, we have an older man seeing a child already parent-less (and on top of that, infected with HIV) knowing that he can both provide him with the parents that he lacks AND has tons of money at his disposal to indefinitely prolong this little boys life, as well as a partner that is much younger and will most likely be around for a long while.
I agree. I originally had agreed with Wendie, but I see your point and I totally agree.
I agree too.
The fact is that that child is going to live a better life with elton than in an hiv hospital. Elton is married and would be giving him a family, regardless of how old he is.. and isn’t David like 20 years younger than him??
isnt alot of the reason they declined his application because there you cant be more than 45 years older than the kid youre adopting or something like that?
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I am a US expat who has been working and living in Ukraine over a year. Money will solve this problem for Elton John very easily. This is the most corrupt country in the northern hemisphere and money can get you anything. You can actually buy a PhD for about $30,000 and never have to attend a single day of class. It angers me that an honest man can’t make his way here without having to bribe somebody to do his job. Even the elementary school teachers are corrupt. I’m not kidding.
Scoob is right – everyone in Ukraine is corrupt and accepts bribes. By the Way its UKRAINE, not the Ukraine. That really bugs me.
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That was supposed to be “na zdroviye” in Cyrillic.
O_o_odesa, That was supposed to be “na zdroviye” in Cyrillic.
From your spelling of Odesa, I’m guessing you are Ukrainian and not Russian.