Sarah Palin’s future son-in-law is speaking out about his relationship with Palin’s teenage daughter, their unborn baby, and rumors of a shotgun wedding.

Levi Johnston told the Associated Press in an interview that he wasn’t held against his will on the campaign trail as Palin campaigned with presidential hopeful John McCain in the race against Barack Obama. He also said he’s not being forced into a shotgun wedding with 17-year-old Bristol Palin because he got her pregnant – no matter what those in the media, or "Saturday Night Live," for that matter, say. The baby is due December 18, while the wedding is planned for next summer.

"None of that’s true," said the 18-year-old Johnston, who has dated Palin since his freshman year in high school and is known as a heartthrob around Wasilla, AK. "We both love each other. We both want to marry each other. And that’s what we are going to do."

Johnston said the McCain-Palin campaign isn’t directing him what to say – or not to say – right now. “It’s pretty chill,” he said.

Even though he was surprised to hear Bristol was pregnant, Johnston said he quickly embraced the prospects of fatherhood. The teen has dropped out of high school to take a job on the North Slope oil fields as an apprentice electrician. Johnston hinted that the baby is a boy.

"I’m going to take him hunting and fishing. He’ll be everywhere with me,” he said.