Wedding March of the Penguins ? ( Throwing Cold Water on the "gay animal theory)

Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 9/22/2005 | Robert Knight

[SirLinksalot]

Wedding March of the Penguins?

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Posted: September 22, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Robert Knight © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Just when you thought it was safe to stock up on sardines and bottles of Arctic water for the coming "gay" penguin wedding boom, one of the most prominent "gay" penguins has to spoil it.

You may have heard by now that Silo, one half of the allegedly homosexual penguin couple at New York's Central Park Zoo of Roy and Silo, has left Roy for a young female named Scrappy. This is not a hoax. The New York Post broke the story on Sept. 16 in an article titled, "Chilly Willies."

Before reporting this to you, I wanted to make sure the story was true. Sure enough, Fox News confirmed it, although Newsweek and the New York Times had yet to weigh in.

The Times has been annoyed of late because the hit movie "March of the Penguins" is stubbornly heterosexual and pro-family with nary a "gay" penguin in sight. This brings joy to conservatives and stings the conscience of liberals who preach that everything evolved randomly, with no particular design or Designer.

As for Roy, as is probably the case with the Times, he's inconsolable. He keeps staring at a wall. No word on the current mental state of Tango, the female hatchee from the egg that Roy and Silo raised as their own after trying to hatch a rock given to them by the zookeepers. Hey, nobody said Roy and Silo were penguin rocket scientists. And still, they rated a children's book, "And Tango Makes Three," which schools are supposed to give to kids to persuade them that you don't need a mom and a dad.

For homosexual activists, embarrassment over this penguin breakup has to rank right up there with Anne Heche leaving Ellen DeGeneres and marrying ... a man. Or Julie Cypher leaving Melissa Etheridge. Or Elton John leaving his current domestic partner and marrying – wait, that hasn't happened yet.

For years, we've been hearing that the presence of "gay" penguins is proof that there's nothing normal about males and females mating, and that Roy and Silo's parenting skills are sublime. The corollary is that society should bless bride-less or groom-less "weddings," and that we should turn boys and girls over to homosexual couples without hesitation.

Don't believe it? Listen to New York Post Brooklyn Bureau Chief Gersh Kuntzman in a column he wrote for Newsweek on March 2, 2004. After rightly disparaging the "commitment-challenged" "Sex and the City" women as role models, he wrote, only partly tongue-in-cheek, that, in Roy and Silo

We finally had a First Couple of Monogamy that would show the world that love and fidelity could still conquer all (plus they looked great in their little tuxedos). Roy and Silo's love is a story for the ages ... When the baby chick was born, Roy and Silo cared for it ... So if Roy and Silo can do it, why can't humans? Indeed, if homosexual marriages exist in the animal kingdom, they must be normal.

I think it's poetic justice that it was none other than Mr. Kuntzman's own New York Post that got the scoop on the penguin break up. That's the way the blubber crumbles, Mr. Kuntzman.

Six years ago, when Roy and Silo became an item, reports began coming in from around the world about "gay" animals at zoos. Books are now being published by homosexual scientists about "gay" animals in "all species." Activists actually use this as a prime talking point in debates on same-sex "marriage." Conveniently, they decline to derive lessons for humans from other animal behaviors, such as incest, cannibalism and, well, the Law of the Jungle.

I'm not sure where the penguin tale goes from here, but I can guarantee one thing: Silo, and probably Roy, will be dropped from the media "A" list faster than you can swallow a smelt.

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Robert Knight is director of the Culture & Family Institute, an affiliate of Concerned Women for America.

[SirLinksalot]

This statement says it all :

Books are now being published by homosexual scientists about "gay" animals in "all species." Activists actually use this as a prime talking point in debates on same-sex "marriage." Conveniently, they decline to derive lessons for humans from other animal behaviors, such as incest, cannibalism and, well, the Law of the Jungle.

[little jeremiah]

Homosexual Agenda Ping.

There was another article about this penguin thing that I never got around to pinging out. The argument that "animals do it so we should" is so specious (I think that's the word) that the only people who believe it do so because they want to believe it. Rational people know animals also often eat their young, have sexual relations with their mother, father, children, siblings and so on, never wear clothes, cook or grow food, sometimes eat excrement and other vile substances, never bathe, kill each other over trifles, and so on. So if we want to say being "gay" is fine because (some) animals do it, there's no reason not do follow their fine example in other behaviors.

Another point is that maybe animals in zoos act differently than in their natural habitant, hmmm?? People in jail act differently than when free. Personally I don't like zoos unless the animals have huge areas to roam. It's like putting them in jail.

Freepmail me AND DirtyHarryY2K if you want on/off this pinglist.

J

[EricT.]

I wonder how these gay activists explain why horny little dogs find love from a human leg?

[lilylangtree]

Give Roy is own pet rock as the consolation prize.

[Salamander]

There's no such thing as a "gay animal".
Animal mating is based primarily on emitted odors.
Cows in estrus will often mount other cows if no bull is present.
They aren't "gay".
Dogs mount one another as a dominance display.
If one of your female dogs mounts another often, it's a good idea to have her checked for metritus.
It's a uterine infection that is deadly and also causes the affected dog to smell like she's in heat.

We knew a guy whose dog humped *everything*.
Other dogs of any sex, legs, furniture, fences...whatever.
The idiot was "proud" of his dog's "virility" when in reality the poor dog was suffering from a severe urinary tract infection which caused discomfort that mimicked "lust".

I've never understood the queer compulsion to justify themselves by the actions of innocent, instinctive animal actions.

Lots of animals eat crap...does that mean coprophagia is a *good* thing, too?

[massgopguy]

I bet a sleeve of Titleists that the disruptive female will be removed.

[Nice50BMG]

And still, they rated a children's book, "And Tango Makes Three," which schools are supposed to give to kids to persuade them that you don't need a mom and a dad.

Does the book talk about trying to hatch a rock? Maybe its trying to convince children that they're the same as rocks.

[Salamander]

For what?
"Corrupting" him?....LOL!

[sten]

(working wiht the logic of this article....)

ok.. so if something is done in the animal kingdom, then there should be no laws against it in human society. Skipping over civilized-man comments and obvious statements about logic, reasoning, morality, and supposed enlightened behavior... let's go with this for a second...

in the animal kingdom, if a member of the 'society' gets out of line, or upsets the head of the pack... they get killed. ok, sounds good. so... what percentage of the population is homosexual? (ans: 1.8%) therefore, they have stepped out of line from the rest of the pack.. and are causing problems the pack just does not like.

so... just let me know when its ok to start applying our 'new' and 'more fundamental' laws so we can clean up this mess and get back to the regularly scheduled programming.

oh yea... and the pack has had enough of roy and silo too. toss them in the cuisinart and be done with it.

[I'm ALL Right!]

Animals also eat their own feces.

[scripter]

That [anyone] would rely upon animals to 'teach humans' anything betrays its fundamental lack of any moorings, or for that matter, of much in the way of common sense. To see this, let us first remember what animals do.

Animals, among other 'criminal' activities:

• Kill and eat members of their species, that is, they are often cannibals;
• Kill and eat some of their offspring, that is, they commit cannibalistic infanticide;
• Compete with other males for the opportunity to have sex with a particular female, often killing or debilitating the rival;
• Fight with and exile or kill the 'owner' of a 'harem,' kill his 'children,' and then raise other children with the females in the harem (the females show no 'loyalty' to their former .husband' and blithely have sex with the new guy).
• Discriminate against and kill .aliens' to their particular territory or tribe;
• Often have sex with some of their offspring;
• Often have sex with relatives and near-relatives (from a human perspective, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, grandparents, etc.), in other words, they commit incest;
• Let the males just about always get their way (e.g., eat first, win any spats),
• Often allow large groups of males to have sex with a female, even leaving her near-dead or even dead, that is, they engage in 'gang rape;' and
• Often allow one male to hog all the females in a given area, driving away his 'sons' and his 'friends' who would like a little sexual 'pleasure' with the 'girls.'

None of these activities inform how we regard cannibalism, murder, gang rape, marriage, the rightful place of the sexes, or incest. What happens in the animal kingdom is irrelevant to what occurs in the human realm.
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Humans are different from animals in countless ways. Humans speak, write, have a sense of personal history and the history of their culture (and often of other cultures as well). They think about and plan for the future, have theories about what makes the world tick (e.g., believe in God, Evolution, or alien visitors), and devise schemes of how the world 'should be' (e.g., have legal systems and cultural ideals 'everyone is equal', only a man and a woman can be married,' etc.).
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Humans also change the world in innumerable ways (build roads, buildings, bridges, tunnels), and manipulate the earth for food and entertainment (e.g., horticulture, husbandry, planetary exploration). Animals, as near as we can determine, do none of these things. Even when they 'use tools' (like sticks or rocks), animals display only rudimentary skill at the enterprise. Source
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If we arbitrarily pick which animal behaviors to value, then any such study from which we get insights for human behavior is a complete waste of time.

[SirLinksalot]

You sound like a Veterinarian to me.

[Paleo Conservative]

[little jeremiah]

Thanks! I used to have that on one of my pinglist docs and I couldn't find it....

Gotta save it again.

[Primetimedonna]

I love this video. Anyway to post a link so I can e-mail it to someone?

Thanks

[scripter]

We can put it on the blog, too!

[little jeremiah]

It's a short and sweet way to completely dismantle the "animals do it" argument.

There isn't one word they can say after that.

Crickets and all that.

(And I bet crickets DON'T do it!)

[wisconsinconservative]

save for later

[Stone Mountain]

How does a bisexual penguin prove or disprove anything?