Jeanie:  1822 days ago

Children need both a mother and a FATHER in order to grow up well balanced and healthy. Now, before you people get mad and jump all over me, hear me out... I am NOT saying that I am better than anyone else because I am a heterosexual.
ALL people are sinners and need forgiveness from others and especially from God. But homosexuality is a SIN, just as the Bible says it is. It is called PERVERSION. Remember that word? Interesting how you never hear that word, any more.
People need to be loved and accepted for who they are, whether they are gay or not, just like people need to be loved and accepted with whatever shortcoming they have. But don't call perversion a good thing, because it is NOT. Being gay is nothing to be proud of. I pity gay people and I DO love them.

Susan Dunn:  1822 days ago

Too bad all this negative energy can't be channeled in a positive way. What a waste. This world sure could use it.
Two committed, loving parents. Two babies who are beautiful, who were definately planned for, wanted and worked very hard for ...what in the world could be wrong with that?

Mississippi:  1822 days ago

Tom, (so as not to be mistaken for anyone else...poster #9) at least these kids can be certain that they were not mistakes. They were wanted and planned and will certainly be loved. Would you want that they had parents like the ones who just got jail time for keeping their foster kids in cages? Or the mother who pimped out her 12 year old daughter for drug money? Or how about the white supremist couple who can't see any other person as an equal to themself? The list of unwanted parents is way too long to list. Teaching your children intolerance and hate puts you on that list.

cruh:  1822 days ago

I pity ignorant, straight people. How could loving someone ("genuinely" loving someone, not just saying the words) be more perverse than blind, stupid, arrogant, hatred. Being a lesbian, working with kids for 20 years, I was a MUCH better "father" than the bastards that abused, neglected, and abandoned the children that I touched. I am certain that Johnnie, Miller, Bailey & Becket are much better off where they are than with the frightening people that berate Tammy and Melissa!!!! YOU PEOPLE SCARE ME!!!!

lovely2:  1822 days ago

Sweet Jeanie, darlin, you should read the Gospels of Jesus. He sure as hell loved the gays - he and Judas would have been Grand Marshalls of the We Ho Pride Parade.

Tammy and Melissa and their family are beautiful.

God loves them with the same intensity as God loves you.

Blondie:  1822 days ago

Sorry Lovely2 but you need to re-read your Bible. Homosexuality is a sin and the majority of Americans agree with that. And Sure the truth hurts doesn't it??? America will never accept it! Have a nice day.

jeninNhollywood:  1822 days ago

To those of you with hatred in your hearts, I feel sorry for you. I think it's obviously important to note here that of course I do not know either of them personally, however, even so, and without hesitation, I will say that Melissa and Tammy Etheridge are two of the MOST genuine and truly KIND people that I can think of. Those lovely children could not be luckier to have the parents that they do. I admire them both for their talents yes, but I admire them mostly for how they have chosen to put their relationship and now roles as parents first and paramount in their lives rather than their careers or celebrity status. They are truly a beautiful couple whose love for each other radiates from them both, in every statement, in every photograph. If you ever want to reconsider your misguided way of thinking, go ahead and actually read Tammy’s blog. At the very least it will give you a small peak into what kind of a person she is and I think you will find that she (they) are exactly what I say they are- kind, genuine, real people with HUGE hearts.

To the individual(s) who commented on the stroller, how dare you. How ludicrous to attack these WONDERFUL parents on something so ridiculous AND irrelevant and how obnoxious to compare them to Britney Spears in parenting style. These people (yes, I still do not know them personally) would NEVER harm their children or put them in a harmful situation.

Susan Dunn:  1822 days ago

Oh Jeanie, where to start with your comment.
Firstly my children are, right now, being raised in a single parent family, as many others are out there... and they ARE loved, healthy and well balanced. With the divorce rate with hetro couples, IF what you believe is true that kids without a father are unhealthy and unbalanced, then most of the "unbalanced and unhealthy" kids are a result of broken hetro unions.
Don't blame gays for a 'family without a father' because the stats show most of those kids are in that status from divorced hetro marriages.
Secondly, saying that we gays are perverts and then saying you love us is a contradition that I think you must really know in your heart is not true, otherwise you would not use a derogatory label towards someone you claim to love.
I was raised christian - I still am- I believe God loves all and God does not discriminate on who he loves.
To quote a wise woman- Melissa Etheridge- "Love is never wrong" .
Good Luck in your journey towards true tolerance Jeanie.

Glorgn:  1822 days ago

The only abomination here is the intolerance and the homophobia expressed by my fellow posters.
Straight people are always so quick to pass moral judgement on gay folks.
There are scores and scores of straight women who have let themselves get knocked up by unknown guys hardly even knowing the guy's first name. Numerous times straight women have had to report that they dont know who the father is, resulting in a "father unknown" on the poor kid's birth certificate.
Added to that is the fact that the kid wasn't even planned and therefore in a lot of cases unwanted and unloved. THAT is abomination!
The biggest difference between gay and straight parents is the fact that with gay parenthood, there is no such thing as an accidental child.
And where do you come off thinking you are better parents than gay people just because you are straight???
The numerous accounts seen in the media all over about neglected, abandoned and abused kids, show these kids with straight parents.
So maybe you straight holier-than-thou folks should get your own sh*t in order before jumping all over somebody else because you dont approve of how they live.
I dont doubt for a minute that the Etheridges are good parents and that they would never do anything to jeopardize the health and safety of their kids.
I am so happy I am not a celebrity and not a famous person. I can walk down a street without fearing a photographer sticking a lens in my face trying to capture me in the most compromising situation possible.
I think papparazzi photographers are criminals and should be prosecuted under the law for stalking people.
I find this photo of the E's an invasion on their privacy - even if it was taken on a public street - because they had not consented to have their pictures taken, and I dont think anybody here even has a right to comment on the Etheridges parenting skills based on what people see, or think they see, in this photo.

Jeanie:  1822 days ago

You're right, lovely2... Jesus does love gays just like everyone else, but He loves us too much to ignore our sin. He died on a cross to pay the price for our sin and not just MY sin, but the sins of gays as well. (But Judas being with Jesus at the gay pride parade? Judas is probably burning in hell ! He betrayed Jesus and rejected Him! Remember) ?!

And to cruh... You are probably a very good parent and very good with kids, and unfortunately there are a lot of abusive creeps out there for "fathers". You should be commended for caring about kids. I'm just saying that fathers do play an important role in raising kids. Good ones, that is. Boys especially need a dad for a role model in order to first bond with, and then separate from, in order to be men.

I would never call anyone a "pervert" because that is certainly derogatory. The act of homosexual sex is a perversion, however. And you're right, Susan that most of the unhealthy and unbalanced homes are a result of broken hetrosexual unions. Gays are certainly not to blame for familys without fathers, either. There are a lot of dysfunctional homes and as a result, dysfunctional people out there. I think that I am as "tolerant" as anyone else, but your definition of "tolerance" is agreeing with and applauding the gay lifestyle. If I didn't tell you that it is SIN, I wouldn't even care about you. God warns us ALL to repent of our sin and turn to Him for forgiveness. That includes you as well as me.

And one more thing... I have nothing against Melissa E and her girlfriend or "wife" or whatever she is. I don't know them, but Melissa seems like a really nice person.

mickey:  1822 days ago

to post #15........you sound like such a plesant and nice gay person..a true credit to your ummmmmmmm gender??????????? LOL hetrophobic/bigoted/ racist and anti feminine too is what you sound like. how intolerant............

sugarsells:  1822 days ago

What cracks me up the most is that Tammy takes the time to go tracking razzi pictures of herself in the first place. Its like she is obsessed with the obsessers! Come on Tammy admit it, you crave the attention:)

Now about that stroller honey, it is Not intended for infants. It is unsafe in that it doesnt recline and provides no support for their tiny neck. Babies that small need a stroller with a 5 point harness.

FrostieOne:  1822 days ago

I think have the problem with the hateful people, is really simple. Jealousy .. This couple is trying to change the world, make it a better world, and all you do is sit around and cast judgments.

As the last song that was written by ME.. WAKE UP

~SA~:  1822 days ago

I just love the people who think they know their bible so well and believe that someone actually heard God talking to them so as to put credibility to this control tool of the Churches. If these people would actually read their bibles, they would find out that the first mention of homosexuality is actually in the New Testament and it was John the Baptist (a living breathing man, not a God) who spoke out against it and called it a sin.
>>If you were raised in the Judeo-Christian tradition, most likely you were taught that the bible condemns homosexuality.
Yet if you were to explore the bible, not only is there no condemnation whatsoever of homosexuality as we know it today, but you will also discover that the bible contains many gay-positive affirmations of love, compassion, and heroism.
John the Baptist took his ideas from Philo, who was a leading Jewish scholar who lived from about 20 B.C.E. to 50 C.E. Philo preached that "it was the primary duty of every male to procreate, and any sexual expression which did not produce legitimate offspring was "against nature." (It would be my understanding that casual sex for pleasure only would also fall under the heading of being "against nature").>

~SA~:  1822 days ago

continued from above..

His preaching’s said nothing about homosexuality being an abomination, just that it was against nature, NOT God, nature. During his period, this was not a good thing because the earth needed populating. This was truly the only reason that men and women HAD to be together. To breed and produce off spring or if it was by their choice to be together/stay together.
Well with billions of people on this planet now and some countries dealing with over population, I’d say there’s no worry any more about having enough people to carry on. Besides, we have grown as a culture and with modern science, procreation no longer has to be one set standard way.
Another thought is the fact that Philo said these words an aweful long time ago. Proving that homosexuality was alive and well even way back then. So I guess if God truly had a problem with this lifestyle, it wouldn’t have survived with such strength all these centuries. It makes more sense to me that God designed this lifestyle and chose myself and others to live it, to walk the path and to perhaps teach others that “the Different” is nothing to be feared. This is just another branch of existence. Another way of living, complete with its own set of valuable lessons to be learned. In the learning is knowing, in the knowing is growing, in growing is our spiritual unfoldment, in the unfoldment we grow closer to God.
Yup, it’s just as I thought. No worries all you straight people who fear for us and our sins that we shall burn in Hell. We’re really OK. We are where we need to be. We’re on the right course and moving closer to God every day.

See you there !

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