Barbs over baby spark a big fuss [Gay man & lesbian making a baby]

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 10/13/6 | Wyatt Buchanan

[SmithL]

Eye of a storm: Even in the tolerant Bay Area, nontraditional parenting can cause a stir. KGO's Pete Wilson feels the heat after criticizing a gay-lesbian couple for having a child together.

Longtime Bay Area television news anchorman Pete Wilson has found himself in the headlines this week after criticizing a San Francisco city official for joining a phenomenon flourishing in the region: the nontraditional family.

Controversy over Wilson's on-air comments about Supervisor Bevan Dufty and his newborn daughter shot to the highest reaches of city government as Mayor Gavin Newsom weighed in and several members of the Board of Supervisors called for Wilson's head.

Wilson did not apologize for his comments, which he made Tuesday afternoon during a talk radio show he hosts on KGO-AM before anchoring the local news each night on ABC 7. But he did say Thursday that his language was "inappropriate."

"I let some of my argument move toward the personal. Some of it was inappropriate, some was talk radio sarcastic cheap-shotting, and I did it several times. That was wrong and unfortunate," Wilson said in an interview. "I still believe the argument is a perfectly appropriate argument. I think the argument needs to take place about the number of directions we have gone with parenting and children."

Wilson said he supports same-sex marriage and adoption for same-sex couples and single parents. His problem with the decision by Dufty, who is gay, to have a baby with a friend who is a lesbian is that the couple have no romantic attachment.

"It may be perfectly fine in Bevan Dufty's case, but is this the direction we want to go?" he said.

[SmithL]

Pete Wilson

Rebecca Goldfader and Supervisor Bevan Dufty are the proud parents of Sidney

Supervisor Tom Ammiano was among several lawmakers calling for the resignation of Pete Wilson for radio comments he made about a supervisor's parenting decision.

[SmithL]

Follow-up to yesterday's Story: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1718105/posts

SAN FRANCISCO: Anchor's comments anger gays, lesbians
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 10/12/6 | Wyatt Buchanan

Posted on 10/12/2006 8:00:06 AM PDT by SmithL

San Francisco public officials and leaders of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community are demanding that a prominent radio host and television news anchor apologize for comments he made on the air about nontraditional families.

Pete Wilson, the anchor of ABC's local evening news and host of a radio show on KGO 810 AM, criticized Supervisor Bevan Dufty and his friend Rebecca Goldfader, who are sharing a home and co-parenting a newborn, during a radio broadcast Tuesday.

[Redcloak]

They've accidentally gone hetero? I can see how this might creep out most San Franciscans!

[NRA1995]

Cry me a river, homosexuals.....stuff your anger where the sun doesn't shine.....

[ninergold3]

Hey Tommy Boy - GET OVER IT! Not everyone believes in what y'all are doing.

I grew up in the Bay Area and Pete Wilson. He's a good guy. Wonder what he thinks about the gay couple here in Nevada that had triplets through an invitro procedure?

[trisham]

Supervisor Tom Ammiano was among several lawmakers calling for the resignation of Pete Wilson for radio comments he made about a supervisor's parenting decision.

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So much for that pesky first amendment thingy.

[BipolarBob]

Hang Pete Wilson!! How dare he exercise his constitutional rights. How dare he uphold the family nucleus as an essential part of a healthy childs upbringing? He's probably Christan as well!! And you know how dangerous those beliefs are.








/ heavy sarcasm

[the OlLine Rebel]

"Wilson said he supports same-sex marriage and adoption for same-sex couples and single parents. His problem with the decision by Dufty, who is gay, to have a baby with a friend who is a lesbian is that the couple have no romantic attachment."


Well that's bizarre in itself.


Personally, I think we should try to match up butch gay girls with femme gay guys. Don't know how to help the rest of them. ;-)

[Gordongekko909]

Accidentally... huh? What, did he fall over or something?

[Burkean]

They can get married to each other. Being a gay man and a lesbian certainly does not preclude them from marriage.

And for the record, I know MANY married couples who evidently do not have any romantic attachments!

[the OlLine Rebel]

"Supervisor Tom Ammiano was among several lawmakers calling for the resignation of Pete Wilson for radio comments he made about a supervisor's parenting decision."


(What in the world is a "supervisor"? Should I be impressed? Should I be paying taxes to him?)


Anyway, I say, screw Tom.

[Alouette]

Big whoop.

[nativist]

Perverts!

[Redcloak]

He might have been standing on a chair, trying to change a lightbulb.

[Polyxene]

That poor baby! And to think we are going to have a whole generation of children conceived for the sole purpose of giving these perverts "dolls" to play with and making them grow up in these toxic, perverted "relationships". (If the relationships last longer than a couple of years.) SICK!

[HighlyOpinionated]

That poor baby! And to think we are going to have a whole generation of children conceived for the sole purpose of giving these perverts "dolls" to play with and making them grow up in these toxic, perverted "relationships". (If the relationships last longer than a couple of years.) SICK!

Very Sick. These perverted minds do not think about what's best for the child, but only what "they want." The children grow up with no true roots. What happens when they're in 7th or 8th grade and the assignment is "family genealogy?" "I don't know, I was a test-tube baby with donated egg & sperm" is not an appropriate answer to present to your classmates.

Maybe the genealogy section of the social studies book has been removed from California text books.

This child is a victim of child abuse from the moment of conception. Yet, how does one define "child abuse" in an atmosphere where "anything goes" with a child? Isn't man/boy love "child abuse" by definition? And if so, why are the adults not charged with Child Abuse???

[Darteaus94025]

And for the record, I know MANY married couples who evidently do not have any romantic attachments!

You mean with each other?

[Darteaus94025]

Anyway, I say, screw Tom.

Uh, in San Francisco, that could be interpreted as an expression of approval.

[the OlLine Rebel]

*grin*

Oops! Sorry!


"To Hell with Tom."

[sportutegrl]

I wonder if it was conceived in the traditional 'hetero' way?