An anti-abortion activist who is also a gubernatorial candidate has been arrested after allegedly making threats on Elton John’s life. Neal Horsley was taken into custody on Wednesday, March 10, by the police fugitive squad and members of the U.S. Marshal’s office and charged with making terrorist threats, criminal defamation and using the Internet to disseminate threats, according to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution newspaper.
Horsley, who founded the Creator’s Rights Party and plans to run for governor of Georgia, was outraged when the singer suggested Jesus Christ was gay in a Parade magazine interview in February. In the interview last month John said that he thought Jesus was a “compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems.” So in response Horsley posted a video Feb. 28 on YouTube, where he held a sign “Elton John must die,” in front of a building where he thought John has a condo. “What Elton John has done is desecrated the image of the Lord Jesus Christ, blasphemed the Lord Jesus Christ,” Horsley said in the video. John’s publicist, Fran Curtis, confirmed that John has an Atlanta apartment but declined further comment. Horsely has released on bail and ordered to remain in the custody of his son, Nathanael Horsley, who also serves as his father’s lawyer.
