Pay very close attention; this gets complicated.
We were first alerted to the following story about six months ago but, at the time, it had very little context and – frankly – we couldn’t stop laughing for long enough to report it thoroughly.
However, following yesterday’s behind-the-scenes look at what will be New Zealand’s first post-earthquake implosion which thrust our protagonist back into the limelight, we simply had to revisit it.
As the many of you that watched the video will know, the man featured was none other than Bill Johnson. Our man Bill works for Ceres Environmental, a US demolition company that was closely involved in the post-Hurricane Katrina clean up operations around New Orleans. Based upon that experience, Bill also spent some time in Haiti as part of the earthquake recovery force there too.
But it was when he took his unquestionable disaster recovery experience to Christchurch in New Zealand that his story got interesting. According to newspaper reports, he chose to leave his wife – a two-times Mrs America finalist – back at the homestead – while he pursued an interesting sideline as a sperm donor for local lesbian couples.
Under normal circumstances, “demolition man donates sperm to lesbians” would be enough of a story to be plastered across our pages in an instant. But it gets better.
For when our Bill isn’t demolishing stuff or helping in a post-disaster clean-up operation, he is also a conservative Christian politician – he was a candidate for the position of Governor in Alabama in 2009 – who has campaigned against gay marriage.
And now, not content with rattling the cages of New Zealand fertility specialists who have strict guidelines on the number of families a single individual can donate sperm to, it appears that Johnson has decided to stay in New Zealand and pursue his “second career”. According to his not-surprisingly-disgruntled wife in a recent New Zealand Herals article: “He is obsessed with this. He doesn’t want to stop.”
You can read the initial article here, and the more recent interview with his wife Kathy here.
