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"Gay" penguins spark protest (Gays object male/female pairing)
Yahoo ^ | 2/11/05

Posted on 02/11/2005 10:24:21 AM PST by KidGlock

"Gay" penguins spark protest

1 hour, 4 minutes ago

BERLIN (Reuters) - A plan by a German zoo to test the sexual appetites of a group of suspected homosexual penguins has sparked outrage among gay and lesbian groups, who fear zookeepers might force them to turn straight.

"All sorts of gay and lesbian associations have been e-mailing and calling in to protest," said a spokesman for the zoo in the northwestern city of Bremerhaven on Friday.

He said the zoo concluded the penguins might be gay after seeing male penguins trying to mate with other males and trying to hatch offspring out of stones.

German media reported that female Swedish penguins would be brought to the zoo to test the theory, but when word got out about the plan, the phones started ringing.

"Nobody here is trying to break-up same sex pairs by force," the zoo's director Heike Kueck told public broadcaster NDR. "We don't know if the three male pairs are really gay or just got together because of a lack of females."


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gayparanoia; homosexual; homosexualagenda; penguicide; penguins; zoo; zoology
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To: scripter

Perhaps the penguins will note your tagline

;o)


81 posted on 02/11/2005 11:54:18 AM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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To: KidGlock

Like most animals, they are try-sexual. They will try anything once.


82 posted on 02/11/2005 12:15:22 PM PST by ORECON (Condi Rice/Donald Rumsfield - 2008)
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To: EdReform
Perhaps the penguins will note your tagline?

Ya think? If penguins will note it, it would be encouraging because others may note it as well!

83 posted on 02/11/2005 12:23:11 PM PST by scripter (Tens of thousands have left the homosexual lifestyle)
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To: KidGlock

I don't think these people spent much time on a farm. This sort of thing happens all the time in young animals but they get it figured out correctly in time. Boys eventually go for girls and the girls wink at the boys.


84 posted on 02/11/2005 12:25:32 PM PST by em2vn
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To: TheCrusader
Eveything you mention has been covered. As it is written, there is nothingnew. Different time, different place, but nothingnew.

FMCDH(BITS)

85 posted on 02/11/2005 12:30:44 PM PST by nothingnew (There are two kinds of people; Decent and indecent.)
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To: KidGlock
Just a small adjustment....


86 posted on 02/11/2005 12:36:09 PM PST by I'm ALL Right! (Welcome to my addiction.)
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To: KidGlock

How do you tell a penguin is gay?
On second thought don't tell me.


87 posted on 02/11/2005 1:03:32 PM PST by Jimbaugh (They will not get away with this. Developing . . . . .)
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To: Modernman

roflmao!


88 posted on 02/11/2005 2:36:51 PM PST by JesseJane (KERRY: I have had conversations with leaders, yes, recently.That's not your business, it's mine.)
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To: I'm ALL Right!

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I have tears now.


89 posted on 02/11/2005 2:39:25 PM PST by JesseJane (KERRY: I have had conversations with leaders, yes, recently.That's not your business, it's mine.)
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To: KidGlock

Giving them options amounts to force?


90 posted on 02/11/2005 2:41:12 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real politcal victory, take your issue to court.)
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To: Alia

If you are in need of a laugh, some funny posts here!


91 posted on 02/11/2005 2:43:30 PM PST by JesseJane (KERRY: I have had conversations with leaders, yes, recently.That's not your business, it's mine.)
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To: EdReform; backhoe; Yehuda; Clint N. Suhks; saradippity; stage left; Yakboy; I_Love_My_Husband; ...
Homosexual Agenda Ping.

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92 posted on 02/11/2005 2:59:02 PM PST by DirtyHarryY2K (''Go though life with a Bible in one hand and a Newspaper in the other" -- Billy Graham)
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To: KidGlock
"trying to hatch offspring out of stones!"

Perhaps the penguins aren't gay, just stupid, or merely europeon democRats!
93 posted on 02/11/2005 3:04:53 PM PST by F105-D ThunderChief (That "THUD" you heard was the Collapse of the DemocRats!)
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To: KidGlock

94 posted on 02/11/2005 3:16:03 PM PST by Ellesu
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To: KidGlock

95 posted on 02/11/2005 3:19:14 PM PST by Arnold Zephel
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To: KidGlock

One penguin turns to the other and says....."And they think WE"RE in a Zoo ?


96 posted on 02/11/2005 4:04:12 PM PST by stylin19a (Marines - end of discussion)
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To: KarlInOhio

How 'bout ice water? er...nevermind....


97 posted on 02/11/2005 5:44:48 PM PST by chief_bigfoot ("isn't THAT amazing?" - Ron Popiel)
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To: KidGlock

This is actually old news. Latest info is that the attempted "conversion therapy" has failed: the penguins, when seperated from their same-sex mates, refused to court with the females and instead simply pined for their mates until they were reunited.


98 posted on 02/11/2005 6:06:36 PM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: Dimensio
Latest info is that the attempted "conversion therapy" has failed: the penguins, when seperated from their same-sex mates, refused to court with the females and instead simply pined for their mates until they were reunited.

According to my German source "Der Spiegel" (search for "Inside 9-11" as reference) this statement is wrong:

The penguins start changing their mates during spring.
"We just wait what will happen. Results are expected for January next year." said the director of the zoo Mrs Heike Kück.

The attempt to convert them was also denied. The Zoo gets from Swedish Zoo at Kolmarden not only 4 female penguins. They get also 2 Swedish male penguins as backup.

The whole project is aimed for conservation of the species. The Humboldt penguins are getting more and more rare at their natural environment around Chile and Peru.
99 posted on 02/11/2005 7:57:32 PM PST by MHalblaub (Tell me in four more years (No, I did not vote for Kerry))
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To: KidGlock

Could arguements and protests like this be the reason such groups are called "queer"?

As in "Odd and queer and quite peculiar".


100 posted on 02/11/2005 8:14:36 PM PST by GladesGuru
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