Don't sing no "Sad Songs" for Elton!

Well, THANK GOD that someone is injecting a bit of sanity into the celebrity adoption bullshit!

Seems like every celebrity and his/her brother has their sights set on adopting a little kid from an improvised part of the world, and then bringing them home to have nannies and hired staff take care of them and bring them up!

(You don't really think they were going to raise these kids themselves...... do you?)

The latest guy to jump on the bandwagon was Sir Elton and his wife David!

Now I don't have anything against Elton.

Actually I sort of respect him and love his music, but this crap about rescuing deprived kids from far away lands has got to stop.

First of all, there are more than enough kids to go around in our own back yard and the perverted quest for publicity that is behind most of these "adoptions" has got to stop.

I have to hand it to Elton that he didn't pick a black kid this time but made up for it by getting a child that was HIV infected so he could keep the sympathy vote high.

Now, here comes the good part kids.......Elton John will not be able to adopt a 14-month-old Ukrainian child because the pop star is too old and isn't traditionally married, Ukraine's minister for family affairs said Monday.

The pop signer 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.

Pavlenko also said John was too old.

The singer is 62 and Ukrainian law requires a parent to be no more than 45 years older than an adopted child.

"Foreign citizens who are single have no right to adopt children ... and the age difference between the adopter and the child cannot be more than 45 years," Pavlenko said. "The law is the same for everybody: for a president, for a minister, for Elton John."

So it looks like Elton and David are going to be singing one of Elton's "Sad Songs!"


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