Posted on 02/16/2005 6:24:13 AM PST by Ellesu
A German zoo has abandoned a plan to break up homosexual penguin couples after protests from gay rights groups.
The Bremerhaven Zoo in northern Germany had earlier flown in four female Humboldt penguins in an attempt to encourage three all-male couples to reproduce.
The zoo originally defended the experiment on the grounds that the birds were an endangered species. But after protests from gay rights groups, director Heike Kueck said the zoo was abandoning the plan.
"Everyone can live here as they please," Ms Kueck said.
She said it was not her intention, nor was it possible, to separate the gay couples by force and interest them in their new female companions.
She added that the gay penguins had shown little interest in the females, but this could have been because the program was started too late in the year.
Gay groups had protested against "the organised and forced harassment through female seductresses" in an open letter to Bremerhaven Mayor Joerg Schulz and called on him to stop the program.
Zoo keepers discovered that the homosexual couples had gathered rocks that they coveted like eggs and fooled their keepers for years into thinking they were boy-and-girl duos.
The zoo came up with the ingenious idea of trying to convert the males by flying in some exotic birds from Scandinavia. But the boys haven't exactly been fighting for a slice of the female action. On the contrary, they have shown their suitors the cold shoulder.
"The relationships were obviously too serious," Ms Kueck said of the same-sex penguin couples. Instead of flirting with the opposite sex, they seemed to prefer sitting on the stones, which substitute for the eggs they will never be able to lay.
The zoo, which promotes itself with the slogan "encounters of a special kind", initially wanted to wait until spring 2006 to see if their international matchmaking efforts spawned results.
Now the gay penguins are being allowed to live the way they want.
As for the Swedish females - new male penguins have been drafted in to attend to their heterosexual needs.
So the survial of that brood of penguins is less important than the fact that they have chosen homosexual relationships. Seems to me that homosexuality was forced on them by the lack of females. How fair is that?
OMG, and just damn!
There are so many things wrong here, where to begin?
If I hear much more about gay whatever's, I am going to throw up.
LOL!
Euro-PEE-ons!
BWhahahahahahaa.
And we liberated them twice for WHAT?
That rumble you hear is 200,000 US KIA in the ETO turning in their graves.
i suppose that they're better off dying out than being straight?
Will this cause a rift between the animal rights and gay rights factions?
Environmental concerns and the homosexual agenda are strangly at odds in this case. However apparently the homosexual agenda always trumps everything including common sense.
They would keep eggs warm if there were eggs around.
This is what male penguins do.
Bump and ping.
Well, if males have all they've been around and living with, what did they expect? They haven't known any thing else. Introduce the females during mating season and see what happens.
I swear these so calle educated people are getting dumber by the second. Those birds are no more homosexual than cattle on a farm.
Ive seen "steers" try to mount horses before. It doesn't mean the steer has some kind of horse fetish, it just means the steer is acting on one of it's most basic instincts.
Radical enviromentalists v. on-your-face homosexualistsIt reminds me of the current controversy over alternative energy sources, such as energy-producing windmills. The enviromentalists want to "save" the environment by installing more of the ugly devices, while the animal-rights nutjobs want to "save" the birds by removing the windmills. Popcorn time.
Gay groups had protested against "the organised and forced harassment through female seductresses" in an open letter to Bremerhaven Mayor Joerg Schulz and called on him to stop the program.
"The female penguins are now being shipped to Guantanamo Bay for use in prisoner interrogations."
"As for the Swedish females - new male penguins have been drafted in to attend to their heterosexual needs."
How do they know they're heterosexual? It appears those heterosexist zookeepers are now trying to force their heterosexual agenda on girl penguins, denying them the opportunity to explore their sexuality. PETA should investigate this.
And, what if those female penguins get pregnant? Will they be given a choice? Where's Planned Penguinhood in all this?
If it were "natural", then the radicals should have no problem with letting females into the pen. However, they know they are pushing a lie. This sickens me.
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