Elton John Rips Dolce & Gabbana, Calls for Boycott Over ‘Synthetic Children’ Comments

“How dare you refer to my beautiful children as ‘synthetic,’” John says in a statement posted on his Instagram page

Elton John is furious with the founders of Dolce & Gabbana.

On Saturday night the music legend called for a boycott of the luxury fashion house after its founders, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, said they opposed same-sex marriage and gay adoptions in an interview with an Italian magazine.

“You are born to a mother and a father. Or at least that’s how it should be,” the pair told Panorama in the interview published last week. “I call children of chemistry, synthetic children. Rented wombs, semen chosen from a catalog.”

The comments didn’t sit well with John who is married to longtime partner David Furnish. The couple has two sons through a surrogate.

“How dare you refer to my beautiful children as ‘synthetic,'” John wrote in a lengthy statement posted on his Instagram page (see below). “And shame on you for wagging your judgmental little fingers at IVF – a miracle that has allowed legions of loving people, both straight and gay, to fulfill their dream of having children.”

Dolce and Gabbana were a couple for 23 years before breaking-up in 2005. Despite their sexuality, they have previously spoken out against same-sex marriage.

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Music sensation Ricky Martin also took issue with the comments in a tweet and accused the designers of spreading hate and telling them to “Wake up, It’s 2015.”

D&G is a favorite among Hollywood stars including Angelina Jolie, Scarlett Johansson and Christian Bale.