Posted on 03/13/2004 6:02:23 AM PST by gobucks
"I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like: I am the gay parent," the entertainer tells ABCNEWS' Diane Sawyer in her first in-depth interview about her sexuality.
O'Donnell has three adopted children — Parker, 6, Chelsea, 4, and Blake, 2. — and says she is in "a committed, long-term life relationship" with her partner of about four years, Kelli Carpenter.
She talked about her experiences as a gay parent publicly for the first time with Sawyer, hoping to bring attention to the issue of gay adoption and a Florida law that prevents gay couples from adopting.
‘I Totally Think I’m Gay’
There's no earth-shattering coming-out story, O'Donnell says, just a realization that dawned on her in a private moment.
"When all my friends in high school, my girlfriends, were going out to bars and picking up men and fooling around on the beach," she says, "I would get Diet Coke and I was the designated driver. So it was never like a priority for me. I never thought about it."
When she was 18, she thought about it. "I remember driving my car when I got my permit," she says. "I was alone and I was like, 'I totally think I'm gay.' Like I says it out loud in the car."
She first fell in love with a woman a couple of years later; but she also had male lovers.
"It took me a while to understand and to figure out all that things that made me me, where I was most comfortable, who I was, and how I was going to define my life," she says. "And I found the coat that fit me."
Her sexuality never has been and is not now "a big deal" for her, she says. "Part of the reason why I've never said that I was gay until now was because I didn't want that adjective assigned to my name for all of eternity. You know, gay Rosie O'Donnell."
O'Donnell, who lost her mother when she was 10 and describes her father as "not very available," says being gay was not that big of an obstacle in her generally difficult childhood.
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Did ABC, the we-love-everything-gay-network, bother to discuss a possible cause behind why these two women are making utter fools of themselves (not to mention what they are doing to 4 kids who don't have a clue ... yet).
Here it is in black and white: Rosie didn't have a father ... he was "not very available," as she put it.
Kelly's parents are all over the story last night, and ostensibly trying to make a good go of it .... but what happens?
We learn that Kelly's 'father' is actually the 'step-father'. Not one word about Kelly's natural father. Why? Ah, b/c that part of the story doesn't fit the agenda.
Two women, gay. Now 'married'. Pushing the gay marriage agenda.
Where is the real Dad for both of these women? He's missing. Where is real Dad for the 4 kids? He's missing.
To the Men out there that are Dads ... do you see what I see? If we fail as fathers, if we run, hide, drug ourselves, whatever ... then our kids grow into adults. But not the adults they should be. Sometimes, they grow into something that is very understandable ... given our neglect.
So ... I just wish Rosie and Kelly would tell the truth: given that their Dads weren't fathering, it should be Ok for them to get married. Anything Gay should go, b/c after all, the Father set the example long ago. He went.
Given the USA has essentially made fathering something that can easily get you jailed, well, then, logically, gay marriage just follows as a consequence.
Let's call gay marriage for what it is .... the harvest of weak fathers.
She smells too.....
Attention Whore also fits. So Rosie is a Piggish Attention Whore, or a Whorish Attention Pig.
I wonder if this philosophy might have something to do with ABC's continuing audience loss? The headline of the following article blames it on "Kingdom Hospital" but note that the losses are across the board:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Broadcaster ABC, battered by questions about how it would reverse a long-term ratings slump, took two more hits this week, as a financial analyst questioned its ability to meet its profit goals and its most important new show fell sharply in the ratings.
In a research note Thursday, CIBC World Markets analyst Michael Gallant estimated that ABC's ratings in the second half of the season were running about 15 percent below its guarantees to advertisers, putting the network on track to fall 9 percent short for the full season.
Those shortfalls, he said, would translate into $110 million in "makegoods," or free air time given to advertisers to compensate for ratings shortfalls.
That would mean an impact, Gallant said, of 3 cents per share on the bottom line of ABC parent the Walt Disney Co. in the March and June quarters.
He also said he expected ABC to end up $200 million to $250 million short of a goal to be breakeven.
Disney Chief Operating Officer Bob Iger, whose responsibilities include ABC, said this week that prime time has been "a real mess" since the collapse of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" in 2000. But he said the network was still on track to crack a profit in fiscal 2005, thanks in part to cost cuts and new slates of successful comedies.
"They have made progress. Their investment in comedies is a good example of that," Iger said at an investment conference. "They have also fixed their cost structure and so that the prediction the network is going to be profitable in '05 is I think quite realistic."
Gallant's forecast came as the network saw a sharp drop in second-week ratings for "Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital," the Wednesday night drama ABC executives have touted as key to their strategy for this part of the season.
Settling into its regular 10 p.m. time slot after a two-hour series premiere the week prior, the show finished second in the hour among the key audience of adults ages 18 to 49, behind a repeat of "Law & Order" on NBC.
Its rating in that audience, prized by advertisers, fell by nearly 33 percent week over week, as total viewership fell sharply as well.
However, ABC said the show was best in its hour among adults ages 18 to 34 and was an improvement in most key categories over the programs it had shown in that slot this season. (Additional reporting by Peter Henderson)
I don't know how many other families do what ours does when someone tries to shove their gay agenda into our faces--we switch channels, or turn off the teevee--but if there are others like us, expect viewership to continue its downward spiral. Barbara Walters can gush over the gayness of Rosie all she wants, but not on our television.
Yes. And that means that their bad behavior toward their kids is OK and when their kids grow up then their bad behavior toward their kids is OK because they were raised incorrectly. And then when their kids grow up then their bad behavior toward their kids is OK because they were raised incorrectly. And then when their kids grow up then their bad behavior toward their kids is OK because they were raised incorrectly.....ow!
Aspirin, I need aspirin.
Let's call female homosexual marriage what it is. . . the harvest of weak fathers. Then, we have to call male homosexual marriage what it is. . . the harvest of weak mothers. 
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