Even though he’s campaigned against gay marriage, Bill Johnson, who ran for governor of Alabama in 2009, has been donating sperm through an online service in New Zealand and has successfully impregnated three women and given sperm to at least six others.
Of course his wife doesn’t know. Or didn’t know. But might have known before they went to counseling. But certainly didn’t know after he went to New Zealand. Until now, that is.
After losing the race for governor, Johnson joined a disaster-relief agency and worked in Haiti before taking a position with disaster-relief company Ceres and decamping to New Zealand where he has sown his seed around Christchurch — really. Of course, his wife — a two-time finalist for Mrs. America — and her three children from a previous marriage are back in the U.S.A.
The [New Zealand] Herald on Sunday approached Johnson on Thursday at a restaurant in Christchurch where he had just finished dining with one of the women he had successfully impregnated.
He said the urge to become a biological father was “a need that I have”.
“I am married to the most beautiful woman in the world. When I married her I knew we couldn’t have any more children. She had a hysterectomy 10 years ago.
“There is nothing my wife would want to give me more in the world than a child of my own.”
Johnson, who has a degree in chemistry and is a member of the international high-IQ club Mensa, said he had told his wife he wanted to act as a sperm donor. The couple had sought counselling shortly after. He said he left believing she was aware he was going to continue.
Asked if his wife knew he was donating sperm, he said: “She does now.”
Apparently, Johnson was planning to tell his wife after the babies were born. He also was planning to wait to tell the other women he had impregnated that their kids had sibs after they were born. This all violates New Zealand law that calls for all sperm donor information to be kept in a centralized repository so biological siblings can access information about their father and sibs. The law also prohibits a man from siring babies with more than four families.
In his political life, Johnson campaigned on a conservative Christian platform which opposed gay marriage.
He said he did not know the “relationship status” of the women he donated to: “I just know they want to have children.” Asked if it mattered, he said: “I’m not going to answer that question.”
Johnson said he wanted to be involved in the lives of the children he had helped create if it was welcomed by their mothers. “I’ll be just as much a parent to them as they want me to be, as I am to my own children.”
Wierd!
the guy juts has weird ideas.
how long before he get romantic with on eof the nos so lesbian lesbians?