Here is the description by KGO of the program. Click her for to listen to Pete Wilson’s absurdly stupid arguments.
This has some of the verbiage from KGO:
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2006
2pm~
Pete ran a story last night on ABC 7 News that, upon first glance, seems like an innocent tale of modern-day parenthood. But upon closer inspection, Pete believes this story is a cautionary tale of how having a child can become too cavalier of an arrangement. Call him old fashioned and even conservative, but Pete is a firm believer that a committed and loving couple in a relationship makes for the best parents. What San Francisco Supervisor Bevan Dufty and his female roommate are trying to do can have dangerous ramifications for their new child, and others in similar positions who want to undertake similar actions.
Supervisor Dufty, who is gay, is a new father, and his roommate Rebecca Goldfader, who is a lesbian, is the mother of their newborn baby. Dufty and Goldfader are not romantically linked, but decided to have a child together, through invitro fertilization, as they both wanted to become parents and were getting older (Dufty is 51; Goldfader is 40). They will live in separate apartments in an attached duplex house; neither one has a partner yet, but if that happens, they will make the necessary room. Says Goldfader: “Actually I see Bevan and I not being a romantic couple as a benefit. A lot of straight couples have said that as well, like you don’t have to deal with that whole other set of issues. Your focus is on the child.”
Make no mistake about it, Pete’s objection to two roommates having a child together has nothing to do with the sexual identification of the principals, but rather, was aimed at the notion of loveless co-parenting. Pete is in fact in favor of same-sex marriage, and even though he feels children of gay couples face special challenges in explaining the sexual orientations of their parents, he sees the chances of these children becoming successful as no different than those of children from heterosexual couples. Instead, Pete links Dufty and Goldfader in the same group as a single mother who decides she wants a child without a partner, which puts the child at a disadvantage. How will Dufty and Goldfader explain their relationship to their child? Isn’t this a careless and selfish way to have a child?

October 12th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
It’s hard to know how to take this whole story, as I think it can only help put him in a more sympathetic light in his District 8 election. Likewise the recent tie-in with his father, ghostwriting for Billie Holiday’s autobiography.
As a gay person who’s also a worried renter and compares Dufty’s voting record with Fiona Ma and Michaela Alioto, the perhaps-paranoid leftist in me smells “strategy” here.
The conservative always realtor-friendly B.A.R. has been promoting him nearly every issue and making all attempts to marginalize the contender, Alix Rosenthal.
Not living in District 8 and even more worried about the amount of collusive media & money and pouring into electing Rob Black, I’m hoping that the “Dump Dufty” movement in the Castro’s 66% renter population will prevail against all odds.
October 12th, 2006 at 6:10 pm
I quess Pete Wilson being “blessed” with a heterosexual lifestyle can’t comprehend what gay, lesbian, and transgender individuals need to do to have the benefits of a family in a non traditional lifestyle.
Personally I don’t know Bevin Dufty, however I feel all persons deserve the right to raising a family as long as the “child is loved”. I’ve heard over the years that KGO is a homophobic station and wouldn’t listen to such crap in my household. As far as Pete Wilson goes, he needs to spend time with “family’s” in alternative lifestyles and see the love they have for their children. I bet they have probably done a better job than Pete has.
October 12th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
The thing people don’t seem to realize, is that the relationship between parents is what the child will emulate in their later years. A ‘roommate’ arrangement between parents, without any sort of bond, is going to leave a very adrift child who will have many failed marriages, later in life.
October 13th, 2006 at 9:03 am
Well, there does seem to be a bond between these two people. They share a house, they’re extremely close friends, and so on. The difference really is that they don’t screw. Is it so important that they make the beasst with two backs together? I guess I don’t understand why the kid will be all screwed up when it grows up just because its parents don’t do the nasty with each other.
Are we now going to start monitoring parents? If you don’t have sex at least once a month, we’ll take your child away? Why sex is so important in raising a baby is beyond me (I understand the part about sex being important in having a baby, it’s in the raising part I don’t understand why sex matters).
October 14th, 2006 at 12:26 am
FYI, we’ve blogged about this topic at RightLinx and referenced your post….
http://www.rightlinx.com/?p=396