Daily Wire host rants against “so-called gay adoption and IVF and surrogacy”: “Abject moral horror”
Michael Knowles: “It's a crime against children and against nature and against common sense”
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From the July 29, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show
MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): This is horrifying. It's a crime against children and against nature and against common sense. Obviously, little babies need their mommies. And you know what? Kids need their daddies too. And they're not gonna do as well if they're being raised by two men who are selfishly purchasing kids, or two women, or a single parent who is intentionally depriving a child of a parent. Obviously, look, it's a fallen world. Sometimes spouses die. Sometimes divorce even happens, though we want to discourage that as much as possible. It's a fallen world, and we make do with what we can. But to intentionally set a child up for failure in this way, to to feed the delusions and selfishness of adults is horrifying. OK?
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This is completely unacceptable. I know this is a hard saying. You know, listen, I grew up in New York, LA, and I went to the gayest university in the world. A disproportionate number of my friends over the years have been, you know, of eccentric sexual desires and things like that. So I really don't say this from a position of irrational animus or hostility or anything like that. This is just wrong. It's wrong by every measure, and it's really horrible for children. Even if one of the so-called daddies isn't a registered child sex offender, as he is in this case, it's just wrong. It's just bad. This is completely unacceptable and should be banned immediately. Period.
We will look — mark my words. If you're a lib — there are plenty of libs who listen to this show. If you're a squishy Republican, there are plenty of them who listen to this show too. We will look back on the experiment of so-called gay adoption and IVF and surrogacy with the same moral horror with which we are already beginning to look back on transing the kids. We were transing the kid -- in some places, they're still transing the kids, but it's clearly falling out of favor. We were transing the kids in a robust and excited way two years ago, three years ago. We are already beginning to look back on that experiment with abject moral horror. We will look back on gay adoption and surrogacy and IVF in exactly the same way. And it's not because all the men and all the women have terrible intentions and terrible desires. Many of them have very good desires and very good intentions. But the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and the evidence is clear. And to deny the evidence is deeply sinful, and we need to cut it out.