"I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems," John said in an interview posted on the website of US celebrity news magazine Parade.
約翰接受采訪時說：“我覺得耶穌是一位非常具有同情心的，智慧超常的同性戀，他很能理解人類遇到的難題。”這次采訪被上傳到美國明星新聞雜志《旅行》的網站上。

"On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East -- you're as good as dead," said John, who is gay.
身為同性戀的約翰說：“耶穌在十字架上受刑前，原諒了處死他的人。他想讓我們具有愛心和寬恕精神。我不知道是什么讓人們如此殘忍。如果你想在中東嘗試做一名女同性戀，那簡直生不如死。”

The Catholic League, the largest US Catholic rights group, condemned the comments.
美國最大的天主教權利組織天主教聯盟駁斥了上述言論。

"Jesus was certainly compassionate, but to say he was 'super-intelligent' is to compare the son of God to a successful game-show contestant," league president Bill Donohue said in a statement.
聯盟主席比爾•多諾休在一份聲明中說：“耶穌當然很具有同情心，但稱他‘智慧超常’無異于將上帝之子比作一名成功的電視比賽選手。”

"More seriously, to call Jesus a homosexual is to label him a sexual deviant. But what else would we expect from a man who previously said, 'From my point of view, I would ban religion completely'?"
“更嚴重的是，說耶穌是同性戀就等于說他是個性變態。但約翰還曾說過‘依我看宗教應該完全被禁止’這樣的話，我們還能指望他說出什么好話么？”