In December 2005, John and Furnish tied the knot in a civil partnership ceremony in Windsor, England. But, clarified the singer, "We're not married. Let's get that right. We have a civil partnership. What is wrong with Proposition 8 is that they went for marriage. Marriage is going to put a lot of people off, the word marriage."

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"I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership," John says. "The word 'marriage,' I think, puts a lot of people off.

"You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships."

I'm not willing to settle.

But then I AM married. And homosexual.

Someone else's semantic hang-ups are not my problem.

Will be that way. If you really want your marriage to work, you need to settle down.

I agree. If I am hung up on the word "marriage" that's my problem. But elton John is right that the word is a bridge too far for some people.

I appreciate your support of equal rights, but why allow semantics to bog this down? If my wife and I as heterosexuals are allowed a "marriage", I see no fair way to deny the same civil concept to a gay couple. Individual religions and churches can decide if they want to accept the validity of the marriage, but that distinction should be irrelevant in legal terms.

That "semantic hangup" is truly the gays wishing to stick a thumb into the eye of the rest of society, just pure spite.