Chapel Hill is going to be very upset!
Posted on 02/28/2007 5:39:15 AM PST by SJackson
Boy, are we a country with too much free time on our hands.
Or should I say, what do a retired tennis pro, PETA, two research scientists and a herd of gay sheep have to do with each other? Plenty, according to the Toronto Star.
The paper reports that two researchers -- Charles Roselli of Oregon Health and Science University and Fred Stormshak of Oregon State University -- have been studying why eight percent of rams prefer to court other rams rather than ewes (not that there's anything wrong with that).
The study had been proceeding quietly until fate intervened. You see, two university football players (you're getting ahead of me here) were pulled over for speeding. They'd been drinking. They had, in the bed of their truck, something they'd swiped from the research center -- a gay ram.
Once a story like that hit the wires, containing it was impossible. Pretty soon, people were asking questions about the research. Then animal-rights activists, gay-rights advocates and left-leaning bloggers raised a great hue and cry ("ewe" and cry?)
Former tennis star Martina Navratilova kicked off the frenzy. She wrote a letter to both universities demanding they pull the study's funding. She said the research was "homophobic and cruel." She said the money would be better spent promoting acceptance of all sexual preferences.
PETA had urged her to write the letter. PETA urged 14,000 other people to voice their complaints, too, and some of them protested and called the researchers Nazis. PETA said that encouraging one ram to mount another was -- I'm not exaggerating here -- tantamount to rape.
By this point, bizarre conspiracy theories were in full throttle. Some theorists said the researchers were really interested in breeding homosexuality out of humans (ewe-genics?). One credible newspaper, The Sunday Times of London, began printing such untruths (boy, was the wool pulled over its eyes) and later had to retract them.
The researchers finally cried foul. They said the purpose of their study was simply to determine which rams are likeliest to breed -- useful knowledge to ranchers.
They said they weren't trying to discourage homosexual behavior, anyway. They were simply trying to understand such behavior in rams. And if they were to find a biological cause, they argued, wouldn't that promote compassion and acceptance for all beings that prefer the same sex?
Some of the attackers backed off -- not because the researchers were convincing, but because it's hard not to sympathize with two fellows whose career choice involves walking around with a clipboard and encouraging male sheep to get amorous with each other.
In any event, this incident is at once a sign of America's greatness and, perhaps, a premonition that we may not be great for much longer.
Evil dictators are stifling freedom and torturing millions. Ethnic hatred and genocide are killing millions. Pestilence and disease are killing millions more. But we're more attuned to things that don't matter, such as "American Idol."
And we're at war. Western civilization is in a battle of wills with fanatics who hope to restore 6th-century values. They intend to get their hands on some frighteningly powerful bombs to make us bend to that will. Yet we worry more about Anna Nicole Smith.
And gay rams.
We have so much wealth and affluence, you see, we can fund university research studies of every kind. We can also fund touchy advocacy groups that use their means to cloud and confuse and obscure whatever is unpleasant to them.
America, to borrow from James Thurber, "has become consumed largely about small matters and 'smally' about great affairs." We're losing our ability to discern between what is and isn't really important. That doesn't bode well for a democracy.
Oh, well, at least the gay sheep story brought some needed levity. The Australians came up with the best headline:
"He's Just Not That Into Ewe."
The gay's biggest fear is finding out there is a cause for what they do, and a way to explain it.
Or even worse, cure it.
PAC-10 ping
The Australians came up with the best headline:
"He's Just Not That Into Ewe."
GOTTA LOVE THOSE AUSSIES!
a duck and a beaver together? disgusting.
Now that's a good headline.
LMAO!!!
I do wonder whether there were females available to these rams during the study. Didn't see that mentioned in the article.
I've seen lots of claims of 'homosexuality' among animals, but the reality is, animals are instinct driven. Once those hormones kick in, the males will mount anything that doesn't mount them first. I wouldn't call that 'homosexuality'.
I think that the cause is environmental...either a lack of proper parenting, or some form of sexual abuse when they are very young and unable to even remember the abuse...
and then, in some cases, it comes as they enter adolescence, go through normal fears of rejection by the other gender, and are approached by a homosexual who convinces them to try playing the other team...
and once they have played the game, it then becomes self-fulfilling because, like an alcoholic who knows they should not take another drink, they feel compelled to do it anyway...
once they have reached a certain point, I think it is virtually impossible to correct the problem. Like an alcoholic, they are compulsive and the only thing they could possibly do is abstain...
Or, we can just pretend they are normal, allow them to marry, teach young children that it is homophobic to refuse a date or approach from a homosexual, and see the numbers grow. (OK, that last line was sarcastic)
THANK you! As I've heard it stated, the sexual urge doesn't care where it's satisfied, it just wants to be satisfied! That's why any sexual conduct is a choice: we CHOOSE where to satisfy that sexual urge.
But I guess we should keep it to sex, so...what about male animals with multiple mates? Libs will tell you all day long that gay marriage will never lead to legalized polygamy and that they would oppose such a thing, but if we're going to accept the bahavior we see in the animal world we not only have to back polygamy, we have to allow men to have harems. In fact, we have to allow men to decide if they want a harem or if they (like tigers) want to hump a series of different females and contribute absolutely nothing--not one cent of child support, not one attendance at a school play, no need to even be around after you get her pregnant--to the upbringing of their offspring.
Hmmm...sounds like that just doesn't work all that well...
One of the efforts of the people trying to gay-ify our schools is to get every kid to consider the following question sometime during early adolescence: "If you've never had sex with someone of the same sex, how can you say you wouldn't like it?"
If I were 14 again and they asked me that, I'd say "You've never eaten dog crap pie either...how do you know you wouldn't like it?" Or maybe, "If they told you wolverines make good pets, would you believe them?"
"Hey, McLeod, get off of my Ewe!"
News flash boneheads... "Choice" cannot be "bred out of humans." It's NOT a genetic condition.
Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.
Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
Psa. 12:8 The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men.
Isaiah 3:9
The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
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