Jillian Michaels surprised by support after coming out, then adopting
I was surprised. People were pretty supportive. We’ve got it all going on in our household – two moms and a black daughter – so I thought we were going to get it from every angle.
But for the most part, people basically said, “God bless. Congratulations!”
~ Celebrity personal trainer Jillian Michaels on the unexpected show of support she received after adopting two children with lesbian partner Heidi Rhoades, People, January 6
[Photo credit: Red Book]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Great. I am glad her and her wife are raising their family and are receiving support and love. That’s awesome.
Anti gay comments in 3… 2… 1…
I’m so happy for them! I hope they all live long and wonderful lives!
JDC you ruined my snarkiness. Shame. Shame on you.
“JDC you ruined my snarkiness. Shame. Shame on you.”
Sorry. :( I’ll be sure to refrain from being so positive in the future.
You better. You could have thrown some obligatory slurs in there for me! Be a pal. ;)
It’s a shame those kids are being deprived of a Dad, when so many Mom-Dad couples are waiting to adopt in the USA. Plus, the kids will not be given a moral example of true family life.
Lol I knew I wouldn’t be disappointed. You’re off the hook JDC!
I really like Jillian Michaels and I’m happy she has a family full of love. I also wish her children had a father.
I am going to stay off of this thread.
:)
Hi Jack!!
Hi Carla! :)
“Lol I knew I wouldn’t be disappointed. You’re off the hook JDC!”
Thanks, that’s a huge weight off my shoulders!
Why does she make it a point she has a black daughter? Nevermind that question.
Keep all comments to a positive affirmation of Ms. Michaels decision. Anything otherwise is anti-gay.
Yes. It is anti-gay to suggest that nature designed us so that children grow up best in a home with loving mother and father.
Oh no! I have to choose between people calling me anti-gay or anti-fatherhood and anti-man!!
Um, I’ll pass on any sixth gradish peer pressure drama and just say that of course I wish Jillian the best, and that of course I also wish her adoptive children weren’t denied a father.
I love Jillian, and I love men. Dads are
irreplaceable and their love for their children is important!
Jack, how is it anti-gay to wish that these kids had a dad? Rosie O’Donnell herself admitted her kids are sad they don’t have a dad. And it is true. THere are so many mom/dad families trying to adopt. Research shows mom/dad families are best for children.
I don’t hate gay people. Have gay friends. But kids being adopted deserve a mom AND a dad. I won’t be shamed for saying it either.
I’m going to say something grossly unpopular in our culture today. Kids fare best with MARRIED MOMS AND DADS. Divorce hurts kids. Single parenting hurts kids. Homosexual parenting hurts kids. Now if the choice is aborting the child or being raised by 2 women, obviously I would choose the 2 women. Abortion isn’t the answer but God knew what He was doing when He created marriage and the family. Every time in the Bible people messed that up (polygamy, out of wedlock sexual behavior etc…) bad things happened. Children do best with a mom married to dad who love each other and respect each other and make their marriage work. Our society doesn’t want to hear that but thats the truth and research confirms it over and over.
We cannot ask God to be something different than He is.
He created us. He knows what is best for us. He knows what will harm us.
Homosexuality is a sin. God loves homosexuals, and so do I.
He loves them so much that He sent His Son to die on a cross to pay the penalty for and set all of us free from all of our sin.
I pray Jillian and her partner find out the truth before it’s too late.
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God.
I am glad for any child that has a loving, happy home, but I know that it’s very difficult for single women to be able to adopt children (it’s a bit easier through the foster care system) but celebrity women seem to get them quite easily. What’s going on here?
Eh. Two awesome moms > a mom and a sub-par dad. My kids were never better off than they were after I left their sperm donor. Even if I never would’ve met their adoptive dad, their lives would’ve been better without my ex in them.
The fabric of time and space is tearing even as we comment.
I wish this example (plus Sandra Bullock’s son) would is some way convince young women of color that yes, their babies are lovable! Don’t listen to the sales pitch at Planned Barrenhood: adoption is better than abortion!
The statistical truth is that most children who find themselves in a household of two same sex guardians are actually the children of heterosexual relationships. It’s often AFTER their children are born that parents divorce and then come out with their same sex relationships. The thing that bothers me about celebrity adoptions is that they are not the situational norm in that manner.
However, any home is better than the back of a Stericycle truck.
I wish there were an edit feature: when I say bother, I’m not bothered by celebrity adoptions themselves, only by how easy they seem compared to those of us proles trying to build families without fame and money.
The only other point I wanted to make is that anyone who has bought into the lie of homosexuality is actually settling for way, way, way below God’s best.
Whether God calls you into a heterosexual relationship or calls you to be single for Him, you’re much better off. Finding and running with the one He prepared for you can be glorious, fulfilling and awesome, if you do it His way (which is easier said than done). Or being single and serving God with all your heart has its own special rewards.
Hello Bearman.
You have also commented here as Jess.
Pick a moniker and stick with it.
Thanks.
Let’s please stop glamorizing and celebrating homosexuality, and cheering for kids adopted into homes without a father or mother. Yes, I know that makes me the biggest bigot and most hateful person around, but too bad.
The fact that many women make the foolish choice to make babies with deadbeat jerks does not mean that children don’t NEED and DESERVE a mother and a father who are married to each other. That’s the design God established. That’s the plan. We humans screw up the plan all the time, but it doesn’t mean there’s a flaw in the plan. The flaw is in us.
It’s not a question of whether lesbian women or gay men can love a child. Of course they can. The point is, it’s not giving children ALL of what they need and deserve according to the plan set down by GOD.
I’m growing very tired of the normalization and celebration of homosexuality, and the corresponding intolerance and hatred toward people like me who refuse to tow the new gay line with enthusiasm.
Well said Jen, I totally agree, I can only feel sorry for the kids, who from research, will be far worst off living with a same-sex couple.
You have been proven correct Jack, except on this occasion maybe you should’ve gone 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…
God did not create marriage or the family. Homosexuality is not a sin.
Oh geez I was mostly joking, people. Quite sensitive around here today.
If you are anti-homosexuality as a choice, anti-gay adoption, etc then you are anti-gay. I didn’t call you homophobes. I didn’t call you hateful. Anti-gay is just descriptive. Unless you want to claim you are pro-gay? Didn’t think so.
I personally think don’t think kids need a mom and a dad, they need loving adults to take care of them. I think gender is fairly irrelevant to it.
And you guys should stop claiming research backs you up. Research supports that kids are better of with two parents than single parents, with no proof that the genders of the parents matter. The only study that has suggested that kids fair better with two parents of the opposite genders had a lot of methodological problems.
Oh, I would have been waaaay better off if i had no dad. Dads can suck a lot of times.
“Let’s please stop glamorizing and celebrating homosexuality, and cheering for kids adopted into homes without a father or mother. Yes, I know that makes me the biggest bigot and most hateful person around, but too bad.”
I’ll celebrate it all i want and throw a party. :) And stop whining. It’s not “intolerant” to say that we believe you are wrong. Cry me a river.
“I am glad for any child that has a loving, happy home, but I know that it’s very difficult for single women to be able to adopt children (it’s a bit easier through the foster care system) but celebrity women seem to get them quite easily. What’s going on here?”
Money and fame, I believe. It can’t be hard to grease the wheels a bit.
Where is the research that children of same-sex parents fare worse than their counterparts?
I’ll wait.
Jack, if gender were so irrelevant, then God needn’t have bothered making two distinct genders when He created human beings. Obviously, gender is VERY relevant. I’m truly sorry you had a lousy father, but what you needed was not NO dad, but a good dad. Children today need good fathers. Look around at our crime-ridden, falling apart society and see the fruit of fatherlessness and lousy dads. Men need to step up and become the fathers they are called to be, and the HUSBANDS they are called to be.
Children need a father AND a mother, period. Men and women bring different gifts to the table, and kids need both.
I am anti-elevating-homosexual-sex-to-the-height-of-greatness-and-normalcy-just-as-equal-and-good-as-heterosex. It’s not. God made men and women for each other. For very good reasons.
I don’t agree with your religion, so saying that God created genders for each other doesn’t mean that much to me.
I think there are a lot of reasons for the crime rate now (which is lower than it has been in two decades, btw). Fatherlessness that you are talking about doesn’t equal a loving lesbian couple raising a child, it usually equals a single mother with two jobs barely gettitng to see her kids as she struggles to feed them. I don’t know how anyone can compare that to a stable gay couple raising a child, kids in the gay family are most likely going to be getting a lot more attention and stability.
“My kids were never better off than they were after I left their sperm donor” – kudos to you xalisae.
“God made men and women for each other” – evidently not in all cases.
“in states where consumption of leaded gasoline declined slowly, crime would decline slowly too. Conversely, in states where it declined quickly, crime would decline quickly”
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link-gasoline
The most intelligent and cooperative mammals have gender-defined roles, as observed among canines, felines, and apes, just to name a few.
The lowest forms of life that have no gender never evolved beyond single cells or colonies made up of single cells, as observed among bacteria and yeast.
Hopper, since most children who find themselves in same sex households are actually the children of broken-up heterosexual relationships, it should be easy for you to find documentation of their greater challenges in life. I for one am not going to search out links on the internet YOU already have access to only to hear the ususal pro-deather excuse of ”your link is biased.”
Okay Jack, point taken. I just don’t like “anti-gay” because it sounds like I’m anti-gay PERSON. Which I’m not. BUt no, you couldn’t classify me as pro-gay as much as much as I love my friends. And they know it and are comfortable with it.
There was a study in 2010 I believe that said children of homosexual couples (I think it was lesbians in particular) did just fine. That study was shown to have numerous flaws in it. A study released this past summer showed that children of homosexuals were more likely to be raised on welfare and experience abuse. Now does that study “prove” anything? No…there will probably be another study debunking that. And it goes on and on I guess…
So where does the category of bitter, regret-filled hag fit into kingdom animalia’s gender schema?
Such a good response Jen at 6:29pm.
All the PC folks hate it but it is still the truth. There is a reason it takes a man with a male reproductive system and a woman with a female reproductive system to create a human baby. There is a reason the best place for children to be raised is by a husband and wife who are that child’s two biological parents. ”Marriage” the lifelong joining of one man to one woman, who become “one” biologically, physiologically, hormonally, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, socially, and economically, who love each other and are open to having children. Have we messed it up? You betcha but it will always be the BEST plan for men, women, children, communities, and civilization. For pro-life, pro-family folks who want to know why married people are happier, healthier, wealthier, live longer, less disease, less depression, less suicide, less poverty, and their children benefit in all these areas as well read Why Marriage Matters and The Ring Makes All the Difference by Glenn T. Stanton. You can think you have “evolved” above the truth like the ”Evolver-in Chief” the current Occupy White Houser , that is your choice, it is still the USA last time I checked but there will be grave consequences. The pro-family position is very much the backbone of the pro-life position. Why is being pro-abortion so intertwined with the “sexual revolution”, so-called “reproductive freedom” mvement and now with the “redefinition of marriage” and the “gay agenda”? Why is it so critical to their movement to destroy one-man, one-woman marriage? Why is it so important to have “license” to have sex with anyone you want, anytime you want, anyway you want, with as many people as you want, and be able to “destroy” the evidence anytime you don’t want him or her? Pro-family people read “A Queer Thing Happened to America” by Michael L, Brown and The Homosexual Agenda by Alan Sears, et.al. If you think they are talking about “monogamous marriage” like most heterosexual married couples practice and believe in, that is not what they are talking about in most cases. I want those who believe in marriage to understand why one-man, one-woman complementary”marriage” is the best plan.
“it takes a man with a male reproductive system and a woman with a female reproductive system to create a human baby” – not for much longer.
“the lifelong joining of one man to one woman, who become “one” biologically, physiologically, hormonally” – lovely dose of anti-science there!
“the “redefinition of marriage” – marriage isn’t being redefined.
“Why is it so critical to their movement to destroy one-man, one-woman marriage?” – no such thing is happening, nor is it anyones intent.
o where does the category of bitter, regret-filled hag fit into kingdom animalia’s gender schema?
We find a lot of those bitter, regret filled writers on Jezebel and the incorrectly named Reality Check.
John,
Are Jillian’s actions affecting your ability to live according to your moral compass? Do you really have an abundance of time to be concerned about what she does?
I don’t get gender roles. I just don’t. Maybe that’s why crap like this doesn’t bother me in the least. My ex was basically “the female” in our relationship as far as likes and interests were concerned for the most part. The world kept spinning, our house didn’t burn down, and my wearing of pants didn’t hinder that. I almost expected the universe to collapse in on itself when as a joke he put on my underpants, but unfortunately, I wasn’t spared having to see that.
My better half/soulmate is far more masculine, but my interests haven’t changed-I’m just with someone I have more in common with now. If I had male genitalia, I could still definitely see the appeal. I do tease him about wearing his kilt and cooking, though. He sews better than I do, too, but I still do the majority of it. Now that I think about it, he’s better at ironing as well. But I kick his butt at Halo every. time.
My point is…people getting their panties in a bunch about who likes to do what with which kind of genitals how and why bothers me just as much as people having parades because they like to do this or that with these genitals in this configuration “Pride!”. Get over it, children, and keep your sexual activities and any opinions you have about them to yourselves, please.
“We find a lot of those bitter, regret filled writers on Jezebel and the incorrectly named Reality Check.”
:) I can’t like this comment enough times.
Xalisae, you are mistaken. The militant LGBTQs are going to make sure that they don’t “keep it to themselves” and if you think that they want tolerance or peaceful coexistance you are sorely mistaken. They are not interested in the “live and let live” philosophy they are way far beyond that. If you do not embrace and condone, you will be labeled “a homophobic, hate-filled, bigot”, excellent documentation in “A Queer Thing Happened in Amercia”. Michael L. Brown and others have tried many times to have a respectful discussion, he gives many examples of “The Magical Effects of Pushing the “Hate” Button in Chapter 2. Among many other examples he documents what happened when Pro 8 passed in CA the “Pro 8 = Hate” campaign. which labeled everyone against same-sex marriage as the American Taliban, Nazis, bigots and even posted signs say “Don’t Silence the Christians, Feed them 2 the Lions”. He documents the threats and the n—– word used against Pastor D.L. Foster an AA former homosexual (now married with children). Reminds me of the similar but not as hate-filled reception pro-lifers like Ryan Bomberger received at Georgia State Univ. where he is repeatedly shouted down when he came to discuss pro-life issues with students. Go to toomanyaborted.com, I beleive Ryan Bomberger still has a video of the reception he received at GSA. Would be nice if we could just all get along but you ain’t seen nothing yet, BHO has emboldened the ”in your face” LGBTQ movement and so-called”marriage” is just the tip of the iceberg.
I don’t expect you to agree with me, that is ok. (Most of your generation believe this is just an acceptance “civil rights”issue, I wish it were but it is a spiritual issue.) Still praying that your eyes be opened and for God’s loving plan for your life be revealed to you (and others as well). I’m out of here.
o…k…
But I thought I made an allowance for people who want to throw parades about their genital activity in my previous comment?
I don’t like either side of the pro or anti gay thing. I really don’t. If people like privacy so much, they can stop telling me which kind of genitals they prefer, too.
This is what I hate. I’ve been called a “homophobe” and a “bigot” before by a militant gay activist, too. It’s just so stupid! I CAN’T BE BOTH, PEOPLE! I can’t be a homophobe bigot AND a queer-lover. We’re gonna have to pick one here. 9_9
“an AA former homosexual” – there’s no such thing as a ‘former homosexual’. They are either celibate homosexuals, repressed homosexuals or homosexuals who are living a lie. Many get married and have children. But they either ‘dally’ on the side or return to being a practising homosexual at some later stage.
I find the whole being afraid of the “militant homosexuals” rather pathetic, honestly. Just another group that fearful people need to alienate. I’ve never met one of these “militant homosexuals” who want to destroy your straight marriage and make everyone gay, or whatever people are so afraid of.
So, on one side some “militant homosexuals” might have some parades and call names. How awful. When I think of all the gay kids who were on the street with me because their religious parents kicked them out, or the ones who ran off because they were bullied and beaten or sexually assaulted by their peers for being gay, for some reason I can’t feel to bad for the side who wants their sexuality even more suppressed.
I get tired of fake persecution complexes by groups who are actually pretty privileged. It just looks like whining.
meanwhile my cousin and his wife are still waiting to be matched with a baby.
Celebrities should NOT be able to adopt that fast…they should have the same waiting periods as EVERYONE.
“meanwhile my cousin and his wife are still waiting to be matched with a baby”
Have they looked into adopting from the foster care system? My sister (who’s a lesbian, not that it matters really but it shows that even groups historically discriminated against have an easier time) adopted my niece from foster care. It was much, much cheaper and helped a disabled and abused child find a loving home. Not a lot of people take advantage of this option though.