Actress Meredith Baxter Comes Out As A Lesbian

Dennis Prager said on his radio show today: “The LGBT crowd and its defenders tell us that sexual orientation is fixed. Are you worried we are going to make kids gay? That’s the argument and it is largely accurate with regard to the male, but it is not accurate with regard to the female.

“There’s a simplistic view of sexual orientation on the Left because they want to do about sexual orientation what they have done with the data about global warming. Cite what they want to push their agenda, not to tell the truth. The truth is that gay men do not choose to be gay but gay women is a more complex question. Meredith Baxter proves my point.”

“Given that she has been married three times [to a man] and had five children, what was she all these years? One of the phony claims of LGBT advocates is that sexual orientation is fixed. What was she doing all these years? Fooling her husbands? Talk about being a great actress. Nothing she did on TV comes close to what she must’ve done in bed.”

Meredith says it was in the last seven years. Prager buys that. “I’m not knocking her. I’m knocking the fraudulent claim that it is all fixed.”

The Boston Globe says:

“I am a lesbian and it was a later-in-life recognition,” Meredith Baxter told Matt Lauer this morning on “Today.” “Some people would say, well, you’re living a lie and, you know, the truth is — [but] not at all. This has only been for the past seven years.”

Recently, the tabloid media has been hinting at Baxter’s orientation, with Perez Hilton posting photos of Baxter with her girlfriend, contractor Nancy Locke. Probably best known for playing the liberal mother of Michael J. Fox’s young Republican on “Family Ties,” Baxter told Lauer, “I don’t want to be worried all the time.” Locke, she said, is openly gay: “I had to reach a level of comfort because it wasn’t fair to push her back into secrecy.”

Baxter, 62, has been married three times, and she told Lauer she was consistently drawn to men with whom she clashed. “It never occurred to me to think, oh, [the problem is] me,” she said. Then, seven years ago, she met a woman. “I got involved with someone I never expected to get involved with, and it was that kind of awakening,” she said. The mother of five, Baxter recalled telling her kids. “I said, ‘I think I’m gay,’ and my oldest boy said, ‘I knew.’”