Anti-Gay Politician Secretly Donates Sperm To Lesbian Couples
LatestWith all the time they spend bashing homosexuals, you might think that conservative lawmakers hate gays in real life. However, as Newt Gingrich has shown us, it’s entirely possible to treat your lesbian sister like everyone else in the family while advocating for policies that discriminate against her — if you’re a raging hypocrite, that is. Alabama politician Bill Johnson has now joined the long list of Republican politicians who publicly attack gays even though privately they have no problem them (or perhaps are homosexual themselves). It’s been revealed that Johnson, who was a top state official for six years before running for governor, has secretly donated sperm to many women in New Zealand, including some who are in same-sex relationships.
According to Politico, last year Johnson ran for governor as a conservative Christian who opposed gay marriage. He earned only 2 percent of the vote in the Republican primary, and after the election he moved to New Zealand to help with earthquake recovery. Now the New Zealand Herald reports that he was also working to help a conspicuously large number of women become mothers. Though fertility clinics in the country say men shouldn’t provide sperm donations to more than four families, Johnson was in contact with at least nine women and has already impregnated three.
When the paper caught up with Johnson as he was leaving a lunch with one of the women he impregnated, he explained that his wife had spurred his sudden interest in sperm donation, saying being a biological father is,