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10/20/2006 5:51 PM PDT BY TMZ STAFF
Melissa & Tammy Etheridge -- Twins!

Melissa and Tammy EtheridgeMelissa and Tammy Etheridge are welcoming two new babies to their family. According to Melissa's official website, "Melissa and Tammy Etheridge are delighted to announce the arrival of their son Miller Steven and their daughter Johnnie Rose on Tuesday October 17, 2006. Tammy and the babies are in excellent health. "

After the couple brought their new editions home, they released a statement saying, "The creation of life brings about immeasurable love, and pours hope into the future... The joy will help carry us through our upcoming sleepless nights."

In celebration of California's new Domestic Partnership ruling, the couple tied the knot in September of 2003.

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Lin:  1897 days ago

OK, for all that want to bounce G-d's word around, he tells us that he is the only one to judge, so mind your small minded business, here are two people that love each other and made a Conscience decision to start a family because they love each other and and have enough love to give to children.

How many children are brought into this world because they are the result of drug using women using thier bodies for prostitution/sex/money, or hormonal teenagers, or adults for that matter. How many "unwanted" pregnancies occured this year, how many chidren are in foster care due to heterosexual realtionships gone bad.....or % of children that come from divorced/unmarried heterosexual parents.

Here are two parents that love thier children... Get focused on more important issues, they are out there

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Lin:  1897 days ago

Just saw the post 30: "same sex couples cannot create a child. What does that tell you." Tammy & Melissa did, they did so by alternative means, just as those that single moms, infertile heterosexual couples, and others use... Open your mind, you'll meet a lot of beautifull people

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Dana:  1880 days ago

Children deserve to be raised by a mother and father. Melissa and Tammy have millions of dollars, hence they can BUY anything they want, including sperm.
Just like in the Black Community (which is an extremely matriarcal society, with fathers largely absent) where kids grow up angry and resentful because they never had a healthy male role model in their lives. Of course, their society is in need of severe self-intervention due to the out-of-wedlock birth rate and the fact that the men father multiple babies with multiple women.
There are definitely things that money CANNOT buy! How do you explain to the children that there is no Daddy and never will be? Or that most of the men around their lives are gay?

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tattoo:  1942 days ago

Dont care

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Linda:  1942 days ago

WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD NAME A BABY GIRL JOHNNIE?!!!! I AM SORRY, BUT I DO NOT FAVOR GAY PEOPLE IN RELATIONSHIPS RAISING KIDS AT ALL. THEY ARE FREAKS IN MY EYES, AND JOHNNIE FOR A GIRLS NAME..SICK. I CANNOT BELIEVE ANYONE WOULD EVEN GIVE A FLY ABOUT THESE PEOPLE EITHER ' IT WOULD BE NICE TO SEE SOMETHING INTERESTING IN THE NEWS.....NOT SOME FREAK SHOW ALL THE TIME!!!

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We, are not amused.:  1942 days ago

Once again, pay attention:
Girls with girls=HOT,
Guys with guys=SICK.
Are we to assume that STEVE MILLER is the one who gave of his manly essence for this science expermient? Gutiar god in heaven, I hope not! And whom but some low-class cracker asses would name a girl Johnnie? Does "Johnnie" have a say in her orientation, or does her name insure that she will be a Butch fuzzbumper? Good luck growing up kids, I don't know but it looks like pretty soon the samesex squad will make it so EVERYONE WILL HAVE TO EAT AT THE "Y" AND SMELL THE ITCHY MAN STARFISH!

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JENNA:  1942 days ago

#2 Linda, why don't you tell us how you really feel?? Homophobe, bigot. What people do in their own personal life is their business not yours. YOU ARE NOT GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Grow up already. If anyone and I mean anyone in this world is lucky enough to find love and commitment with someone, then more power to them. You are probably a closet case. Come out already. Be happy :-)

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leann:  1942 days ago

Well the name Johnnie for a girl is no more wrong than "Stevie" "billy jo" there are lots of girls with a name that is used for a boy....and what is wrong with gays raising children they are people too and can make loving parents......and who are we to judge them......it may not be my choice of a lifestyle.....and after all they are watched more closely than "straight" people.....in the child raising dept.......and god knows there are many "straights" who shouldn't have been parents......Good luck to Melissa, Tammy and the kids......(last father of Melissa's children was David Crosby......I haven't heard of any wrong doing in the care of these children.....

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Vicki:  1942 days ago

My Grandmother's name was Johnnie, born in the early 1900's. Funny, I don't remember anyone indicating my great grandparents were low-class cracker asses. A name does not reflect who you are or who you will become; your actions as a human being speak volumes.

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Heather:  1942 days ago

I agree Vicki; I have a great-aunt named Johnnie who was born in the 1940's. She happens to be named after her father, who was never called a low-class cracker ass. Anyone can be good parents if they want to be...straight, gay or otherwise. Who are we to judge? We are all equal in God's eyes.

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Dee:  1942 days ago

Johnnie IS a stupid name for a girl. I hope those kids won't end up being gay or fag. Milissa, get a nose job!

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Carol Perry:  1942 days ago

I also have an Aunt named Johnnie, also a niece that was named after my late Father Jess, we named her Jessie. I love the old names that really mean something. What about Apple, and a lot of the really dumb names these kids will have to be teased about.

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sheila:  1942 days ago

I just love that these 2 woman have 2 little girls now in their lives. When people who have been trying to have kids for years cannot have them and sometimes do not have the money to adopt. THis is the kinda crap that makes me sick...

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We, are not amused.:  1942 days ago

#10
Why is it that you and your hero Rosie assume that everyone else in the world is"just a little gay"? Not everyone is bent that-a-way. You act as if the only "sensitive" people in the world are NOT normal. Being gay doesn't mean that everyone else is NOT happy with whom they are. I think it is SICK that normal people who want to be a Mom and a Dad are made to feel by people like you that they have committed a crime, when the only "crime" here is aganist nature, Same sex advocates are offensive to the laws of our Heavenly Father. God have mercy on your sick and sinful souls!

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maj. RICHARD BLOUNT M.D.:  1942 days ago

people...COME ON ALREADY!!!- JEEZ!!-dont you see the state our planet is in???!!! this society and planet needs EVERY BIT OF creation and love it can muster!!!- EVERY SINGLE LITTLE MICRON OF POSITIVE ENBERGY IS BENEFICIAL!!it is none of our business if melissa has a zillion babes named ''doorknob''!! those kids are loved and cared for!!- that is all that natters!! peace!!

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