"...Gay rights activists have protested at a north
German zoo's plans to test the sexual orientation of
six male penguins which have displayed homosexual
traits...Bremerhaven's Zoo am Meer said it would
introduce four extra female penguins from Sweden to
the group to see if the males really were gay...But
zoo director Heike Kueck said "gay groups worldwide
have been cursing us since that announcement".
...The zoo says it just wants to encourage the rare
Humboldt penguins to breed....The males have been
observed trying to mate with each other and trying to
hatch offspring out of stones...Gay groups insisted
that penguins had a right to form couples without
human interference, she said..."
BBC News, 14February, 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4264913.stm

"...An outbreak of chlamydia at the San Francisco Zoo
has left a dozen penguins dead, according to a
spokesman..."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/05/05/state/n163443D06.DTL

Sir,

How far has political correctness gone? A group of
endangered penguins start acting strangely, engaging
in homosexuality and trying to hatch rocks. Are they
queer or just retards? Before we can determine the
cause of this clearly pathological behaviour, the PC
homosexuals get involved, taking a principled stand on
penguin sexuality. Never mind that the logical
conclusion to this episode is extinction. Better
extinction of the species than attempting to
facilitate normal, wild, heterosexual behaviour
(sexual reproduction which insures survival of the
species) in captive birds.

Now, birds are dying of sexually transmitted behaviour
in, where else, the San Francisco zoo. Experts suspect
that it the chlamydia was transmitted via bird
droppings. But can we be sure? Shouldn't we provide
the penguins with counseling, let them know that if
they are gay or "questioning", it's nothing to be
afraid of. Maybe put up some billboards in their
enclosure, indoctrinate their young in the ways of
safe sex. Let them know that fisting is fun, always
use a condom and don't do meth and have unsafe sex.
Clearly, unless the government gets involved, we are
consigning these penguins to second class citizen
status. What does the government exist for if not to
promote healthy sexuality (so long as it's not the
homophobic theocracy type of sexuality, the one
involving committment and reproduction).

Sincerely,

rcl

Wow..I don't know who is going to take this news the hardest: Roy, Andrew Sullivan or Downtown Lad?

Wow..I don't know who is going to take this news the hardest: Roy, Andrew Sullivan or Downtown Lad?

I'm starting to worry it might be ace. So, ace, did you decide" to "experiment" while in a college-like environment"?

I don't suppose it occured to y'all that the lil' critter might be bi, did it?

There goes Don again putting the retard in "retard."

I always thought that with a lot of gay animals, it could be a sinus problem, since that's the main way a lot of things can tell males and females apart.

Try to say "Penguin Pooter" 6 times fast.

I saw March of the Penguins last weeked. I wiped a tear and came away with the heartwarming message that "life really sucks." Is there something wrong with me?

So, how long before Andrew Sullivan blames this on the Pope?

The pair rose to prominence six years ago when they came out with their same-sex relationship.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

And that's important to note, since behavior that appears in nature is therefore normal and good. So, like the lions of Africa, I guess it's okay for a stepdad to kill the kids from the previous marriage so the woman will come into heat again. Or wait...

queer aquatic birds
penguin pooter beckons one
why? it smells like fish.

It is no wonder
why penguins go queer; jeez, they
live in a bathhouse.

The whole "studying homosexuality in the animal kingdom" act that's so fashionable nowadays is driven by left-wing agenda politics, pure and simple. Transposing human sexuality onto other animals in an attempt to justify the human behavior.

Heck, my female cockerspaniel (RIP) used to hump my leg, other female dogs, male dogs, inanimate objects, and so on and so forth. Does that make her a butch-lesbian-interspecies-where's-my-strapon cockerspaniel whose sexuality and proclivity for reading the Village Voice needs to be respected? Or was she just an incredibly stupid animal whose instincts where out of wack?

Another point is that if it's fair to transpose human sexuality onto animals and declare it homosexual, what's a logical reason why the street can't go the other way? Take what's considered homosexual behavior in animals (penguins for example: the males just hanging out with each other and not breeding with the females), then apply that standard to humans. Hence all you guys that just spent the spring and summer season hanging out with your male friends instead of breeding are now "gay". What utter nonsense.

I think its outrageuous for anyone to protest the idea of allowing an animal to experience one of their natural things: breeding with the opposite sex. Thats just outright ridiculous to protest that.

And its really none of their damn business what the zoo decides to do: as long they are not abusing the animals.

...as long they are not abusing the animals...

But they are -- all penguin requests for butt plugs, bondage gear, and 5gal pails of Dr Zog's Sex Wax have been stonewalled by zoo administration.

As Frank Zappa informed us years ago - penguins and bondage go together like peas and pods. The ACLU has recently filed suit in discrict court asserting denial of these most fundamental penguin aids does in fact constitute "abuse".

So these two birds have decided to go streight good for them they would,nt of had a ny little penguins

They must have been hanging around Spongebob Squarepants:

http://larknews.com/september_2005/secondary.php?page=4

I guess there is a counterpart to Anne Heche in the animal kingdom.

The homosexuality in prison comments is that from personal expierence? Or from watching "OZ"?