Posted on 12/28/2010 7:47:50 AM PST by MissTed
Elton John and his partner have become the proud parents of a son born to a surrogate in California on Christmas Day, US Weekly reported.
The boy, named Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, is the first for the British rock star and Canadian filmmaker David Furnish, who have been together since the early 1990s.
"We are overwhelmed with happiness and joy at this very special moment," US Weekly quoted the pair as saying.
"Zachary is healthy and doing really well, and we are very proud and happy parents."
The magazine said the boy weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces (3.6 kilograms).
A representative for the 63-year-old musician was quoted as saying no further details about the surrogacy arrangement will be disclosed.
John's spokeswoman said the US Weekly report was accurate.
The pair, who entered into a civil union in 2005, tried to adopt an AIDS-infected orphan in Ukraine last year but were thwarted by government regulations.
The boy's middle name is a possible nod to John's 1971 song Levon, whose lyrics were written by the rocker's longtime collaborator Bernie Taupin and inspired by Levon Helm, the drummer and singer for The Band.
These sick twisted queers will someday answer for their perverted lifestyle.
Poor little baby....what a bizarre setting for an innocent child.
The woman who bore this child, for money, to be placed into the hands of these two will answer as well. Throw in the authorities and agencies who have allowed it to happen.
In an insane society the sane person always appears insane.
> The pair ... tried to adopt an AIDS-infected orphan in
> Ukraine last year but were thwarted by government
> regulations.
Russia, and I believe Ukraine, forbid adoptions by queers or singles.
> 63-year-old
Adoption agencies with which I have worked set the maximum age of the youngest adoptive parent at 45 years older than the child. So a couple whose youngest member is age 50, could adopt children 5 years old and older.
unfortunately money talks.
Still doesn't make you normal, though.
Fixed it.
Babies for two gay men are the de riguer fashion accessory.
Society has decided to sacrifice the little innocents—their potential, their fulfuillment, their lives— for shallow PC.
Ever notice that queer men adopt boys and queer women adopt girls? Why do you reckon that is? I bet they fight over diaper changing time. Just sayin.
All that matters is money.
California and Nevada (I believe) thanks to their state laws, have become mills for clinics willing to recruit women to be artificially impregnated/fertilized ova implanted and breed babies for money or for themselves, hence the rash of mothers giving birth in their 60’s.
David Furnish is 48.
I can’t believe these guys are really going to spend their days changing diapers and making bottles for this baby. I suspect the child will be raised by nannies.
A helpless male child adopted by two aged buddies with tons of money.
What could possibly go wrong?
***...fashion accessory***
You are absolutely correct. This narcissistic child-hoarding is the new fad in Hollyweird. Everyone is doing it - especially those whose body clocks are rusted or not working as God intended.
IMHO-The most heinous individuals are the rental womb women who sacrifice their own progeny - to morons - for money.
Ain’t procreative perversion great?
There’s not much that makes me feel like crying, but this is one of those stories that does.
That poor poor child.
Its abuse, plain and simple.
Barf. More pretending that wishes are horses.
Colonel, USAFR
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