Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

PROSPERING GAY ANIMALS: Male chinstrap penguins, such as the famous Roy and Silo of the Central Park Zoo, have paired and even cared for eggs.


1 posted on 06/18/2009 7:42:42 AM PDT by JoeProBono
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-23 next last
To: JoeProBono

Sure glad there is no gay agenda around, to turn into an obsession.....and grant money.


2 posted on 06/18/2009 7:48:09 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JoeProBono

I was under the impression that animals only engaged in homosexual activity only if there are no other animals of the opposite sex around....


3 posted on 06/18/2009 7:48:42 AM PDT by NMEwithin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JoeProBono

Gay animals are as real as unicorns and 3 headed tigers.


4 posted on 06/18/2009 7:49:21 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JoeProBono

I don’t think the question should lie in a gay-straight context. As they mention some, or perhaps most, same sex pairing is for benefits outside of sex. In fact they don’t seem to mention sex at all. Looking at their definition of things it appears that you could say two human male roommates who do get an apartment together, share bills and food are gay when they obviously are not.


5 posted on 06/18/2009 7:50:34 AM PDT by aft_lizard (One animal actually eats its own brains to conserve energy, we call them liberals.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JoeProBono
Other researchers, however, aren't convinced that everything must fit into the evolutionary, adaptive rubric.

But... but... the Scientific Establishment[tm] has a tight-knit cabal that rigidly excludes such heretical thoughts! That's what all the creationist threads on FR say, anyway....

6 posted on 06/18/2009 7:53:59 AM PDT by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JoeProBono
the animal kingdom exhibits some select traits of homosexuality but not the way we think of it.

homosexuality can offer benefits to caring for offspring, strengthening group cohesion, quelling conflicts, establishing a hierarchy.

but it's not like a dude lion goes cruising for another dude lion. think about it. if you are a gay human male and you help raise your nieces and nephews, aren't you passing on your genetic material? of course you are since you share a fair amount with the offspring of your siblings.

7 posted on 06/18/2009 7:54:05 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JoeProBono

Animals have URGES! So gays are comparing themselves to animals? My male dog humps my leg (I am a male) does that mean we are gay? No, it’s a PERVERTED urge...PERIOD!


11 posted on 06/18/2009 8:02:05 AM PDT by mikelets456
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JoeProBono
It could be an evolutionary kill switch for genes... a gene pool self cleaning mechanism

Hey if you want to spin "Gay" as normal for a reason then let spin... you can play at this game many ways

12 posted on 06/18/2009 8:06:25 AM PDT by tophat9000 ( We are "O" so f---ed)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JoeProBono
Do Gay Animals Change Evolution?

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

13 posted on 06/18/2009 8:07:09 AM PDT by kidd (Obama: The triumph of hope over evidence)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JoeProBono
“gives more stability to the offspring of males, already bonded to a female, who mate opportunistically with females in a same-sex couple.”

Sounds like quite the opportunity!

15 posted on 06/18/2009 8:09:09 AM PDT by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JoeProBono

Bush's fault!


16 posted on 06/18/2009 8:10:04 AM PDT by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JoeProBono
It also gives more stability to the offspring of males, already bonded to a female, who mate opportunistically with females in a same-sex couple. Such a dynamic, then may force gradual changes in behavior and even physical appearance of the birds, the authors note.

Note that these are not "gay animals", because they are having sex with the opposite sex and getting pregnant. They simply are living in a different social environment.

There were and still are tribes of humans where the men pretty much just get food and have sex, and the woman all live together and raise the kids and care for them. That's not "homosexual".

Homosexual is when a person only wants to have sex with the same sex. And that won't work for Evolution.

BTW, I'm surprised more animals, especially males, don't have both hetero and homosexual sex. After all, masturbation is hard without hands, and the females may not always be around, and if you have no "morality", any hole will do for sexual gratification.

It is no surprise that animals might have sex in "inappropriate" ways. They are animals, after all.

But surprisingly, most animals don't seem to be as bad on that score as humans.

19 posted on 06/18/2009 8:25:59 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JoeProBono; Revolting cat!
So what’s in it for the 450-plus species that go for same-sex sex?

What's in it for the dogs that hump stuffed dolls, furniture, and human legs?

What is the evolutionary "benefit" of j*cking off?

Scientific American has added itself the scrap pile of propaganda posing as useless infotainment.

22 posted on 06/18/2009 9:03:11 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JoeProBono

it eliminates animals that can’t detect the opposit sex. (whether mutation or caused by a shortage of members of the opposit sex)


24 posted on 06/18/2009 9:06:04 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: wagglebee

PING


25 posted on 06/18/2009 9:06:52 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: GodGunsGuts; Fichori; tpanther; valkyry1; Mr. Silverback; Gordon Greene; Ethan Clive Osgoode; ...

The constant appeal to the animal world just doesn’t do much for the homosexual movement.

It always comes across as making it look like they’re saying that gays are just like animals.


36 posted on 06/18/2009 2:33:14 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JoeProBono

>>It also gives more stability to the offspring of
>>males, already bonded to a female, who mate
>>opportunistically with females in a same-sex couple.

That’s a male with a harem, not the lesbianism the anthropomorphizing “researchers” are attempting to hang around the albatross’ neck.

Humans are MAMMALS, and, thanks to billions of years of evolution, mammals reproduce HETEROsexually.

There is absolutely no evidence that “tolerating” homosexual behavior has positive impact upon the social or biological fitness of human societies. None. Zip. Nada.

OTOH, there is historical evidence of the demise of homosexually tolerant societies - Hellenist Greece, Rome, Sodom and Gomorrah, Nazi Germany, and the USA.

Do what thou wilt is NOT the whole of the law.


41 posted on 06/19/2009 4:58:29 PM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JoeProBono
This article and the "research" it cites are bovine excrement.



Females naturally grouping together and cooperatively raising offspring, as can be observed among many mammalian species, does not make those females lesbians.
42 posted on 06/19/2009 5:17:01 PM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JoeProBono

>>”It’s been observed a lot,” says Nathan Bailey

So has cancer.


45 posted on 06/19/2009 5:35:58 PM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JoeProBono
"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold:
its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life.
If we can undermine these three areas,
America will collapse from within."
--- Joseph Stalin

47 posted on 06/19/2009 5:49:21 PM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-23 next last

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson