Bill Johnson, Former Alabama Governor Candidate, Caught In Lesbian Sperm Donation Scandal

A conservative Alabama politician and former gubernatorial candidate has been slammed by reports that he had secretly been donating sperm to lesbian couples in New Zealand.

As the New Zealand Herald is reporting, Bill Johnson -- who ran for governor of Alabama in 2009 -- has spent most of this year in Christchurch helping run the earthquake recovery without his wife, Kathy, all the while using the online persona "chchbill" to meet women who want help to get pregnant.

The Herald quotes the 53-year-old Johnson as saying the urge to become a biological father inspired him to donate sperm, after revealing that his wife couldn't get pregnant following a hysterectomy. "There is nothing my wife would want to give me more in the world than a child of my own," he said. "Every person who is a father and a mother knows why I am doing this. If life's circumstances had dealt me a different hand I wouldn't be doing this. It is not the hand that life has dealt my wife. Reproduction and having children is as basic a human need as eating."

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Johnson discussed making donations to at least nine women, and three are now pregnant, while he has also assisted a further three with donations in the past month. Though Johnson had campaigned for governor on a conservative Christian platform which opposed same-sex marriage, the New Zealand Herald reports several of the women interviewed were in lesbian relationships. When pressed, Johnson only noted he did not know the "relationship status" of the women he donated to, according to the publication.

One of the pregnant women, who is in a same-sex relationship, is quoted as saying of Johnson: "We found Bill to be really nice. He's a really supportive guy."

Johnson's wife has declined to comment on the case, telling the Alabama Press-Register, "This is a really, really difficult time for our family. I'm still in disbelief and very hurt, and our family has a lot of healing to do.”

Watch a 2009 video of Johnson on the campaign trail below:

Comments

[snlxs1]

10:06 AM on 05/05/2012

read the new update- he has left his wife to move to New Zealand to be with his babies............

[Ankhorite]

05:23 PM on 02/03/2012

I'm shocked that the couples accepted genetic material from a man over 40. Not a good idea.

Since he's so into the universal need to parent, do we know how he voted on things like gay adoption?

Hmmm.

[Michael Kenney]

11:32 PM on 01/02/2012

It would be really nice if the self-righteous could embrace a view of the world that incorporates some of their own human foibles. Imagine a world in which those trying to tell others how to live were really okay with their own human qualities, sometimes generous and caring, at other times needy and emotional. Seems like there would be less preaching at people and more compassion. I wonder whether there is something in fundamentalist doctrine that traps people in hypocrisy. Duh. Of course there is. What was I thinking?

[Calli Preston]

06:16 AM on 12/15/2011

I feel bad for the poor recipients. Obviously they weren't told they were given 52 year old sperm from a Alabama teabagger :( I hope they got a discount!!

[scottsdalebubbe]

09:44 PM on 12/14/2011

Mr. Johnson's Johnson Does Christchurch.

[foxbatt211]

06:17 PM on 12/14/2011

Just wait til' all them little Baptists start running around all those kiwi's ... Somebody better warn them to protect the sheep Monday thru Saturday.

[Liz Ernst]

08:15 AM on 12/14/2011

Wait...he's making his donations how exactly?

[henery]

07:16 AM on 12/14/2011

The Churches say you should tithe ten percent of what you have. So wifey should don't have a hand in this donattion.

[markgoode]

01:02 AM on 12/14/2011

His fellow Teabag Christine O'Donnell and her ilk are 100% opposed to masturbation.

[geddy lee is a god]

09:28 PM on 12/13/2011

The title of this article alone deserves an F & F.

Lesbian, sperm, and scandal all in the same headline. Classic.

[indothinker]

08:48 PM on 12/13/2011

apparently, lying to your wife about your activities is a basic human need also...

[indothinker]

08:38 PM on 12/13/2011

every sp*rm is s@cred, every sp*rm is gre@t, if the sp*rm is w@sted, g0d gets quite ir@te...

[prawn259]

07:20 PM on 12/13/2011

Scandal?

[PtaRay]

05:20 PM on 12/13/2011

uhm, so is masturbation OK?? for conservative who stand by the family values ideology?
as long as it is on foreign soil? or as long as your wife had a hysterectomy?
I'm confused.
If the wife says they are in "hard times" and healing to do, I think that means he is blowing it.
sounds like a dodge for spanking the monkey, by justification.
not that in of itself ythats bad, but it is totally counter to the ideology of the "family values
that the self-righteous hypocrits always push in our faces.
secondly, is this "donation" in small tubes, or by physical contact?
very vague information, but just another proof that the supposed "righteous" and still just humans, but like to hide behind their "faith" as a sheild and political vote grabber. not really what hey feel in their hearts.
I love how there are always justifications for actions which are contrary to the path that the rightous claim they walk.

[prawn259]

07:21 PM on 12/13/2011

Don't reach so hard, you're going to sprain a muscle.

[nazztea]

12:42 AM on 12/14/2011

Why IS the wife cheesed?
It's not like he delivered the sperm personally.

[scottsdalebubbe]

09:39 PM on 12/14/2011

Well, according to them, if he owns her v*g*na, then she owns his sperm.

[edfou5]

05:14 PM on 12/13/2011

So let me get this straight...

You as a Christian Conservative politician believe that God is Perfect and there's such a thing as God's Will.

You and your wife are unable to conceive. So much for God being Perfect.

It's clearly God's Will that you not have a natural born child. So you have violated God's Will, haven't you, Mr. Johnson.

And you have donated sperm to women that you knew nothing about? Are we expected to believe that? That's QUITE unusual in these situations. Not to mention the fact that you did it on the other side of the planet...

Aside from the usual Christian Conservative hypocrisy when it comes to anything having to do with
taking one's pants off... there's much more to this story than we're being told, I think.