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Contents:
- WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?
- ‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK STIRS NTROVERSY, IGNOR FULL STORY
- ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY
- 'GAY' PENGU COUPLE HAD NO EGG OF THEIR OWN. SO THEY STOLE ONE.
- TANGO AND SILO, THE GAY PENGUS OM ‘AND TANGO MAK THREE,’ ARE OFFICIALLY EX-GAY
- GAY PENGUS PROVE THAT LOVE IS WNG
- GAY PENGUS BREAK UP
- WHATEVER HAPPENED TO: THE GAY PENGUS
- FLAP OVER A TALE OF GAY PENGUS
- PLEASE, NOT THE GAY PENGUS AGA
WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?
CHICAGO (BP)--A children's book based on a te story about two "gay pengus" is g ncern om parents several schools and towns natnwi, and th far the ntroversy largely has ignored an important fact -- the pengus long ago spl up, wh one of them gog on to nt… * gay penguins roy and silo *
In the Netherlands, a gay Ain pengu uple recently stole an egg om a lbian pengu uple. That means ’s difficult to tell male and female pengus apart and even more difficult to intify any wild matg pairs as homosexual.
‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK STIRS NTROVERSY, IGNOR FULL STORY
Stori of homosexual behavr among pengus are well-documented and well-loved. But somebody's jt ed them for . For a while, Roy and Silo, a pair of male Chstrap pengus New York Zoo, were the world’s most famo gay uple, buildg a nt together and even hatchg and rearg... * gay penguins roy and silo *
It has "rocked the gay scene, " as the popular blogger Andrew Sullivan, who is gay, wrote The Sunday Tim of London this one was more disappoted than Rob Gramzay, the senr pengu keeper at the zoo, who said simply an terview yterday, "They seemed to be a good pair together.
"People read so much to the gay thg, and the gay thg is necsarily a human nstrat that's put on top of them.
Dobson, who has lled homosexualy a disorr and advot nvertg gays, a mentator, Warren Throckmorten, wrote: "For those who have poted to Roy and Silo as mols for all, the velopments mt be disappotg. As Roberta Sklar, a spokwoman for the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, put : "There's almost an obssn wh qutns such as, 'Is sexual orientatn a birthright or a choice? The surprise h of the summer was "March of the Pengus, " part bee was embraced by Christians and nservativ, who see the film pro-fay and Christian Febary, followg protts by gay rights groups, a German zoo abandoned plans to force homosexual pengus there to pair wh femal.
ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY
One of Ameri's A-list gay upl has broken up. Roy, Tango, and SiloNo, 's not Rosie and Kelli. It's Roy and Silo. Roy and Silo are male pengus... * gay penguins roy and silo *
And, anyway, he said, "bisexual" would be a better term for animals, addg, "They're sometim scribed as gay animals, but they really aren't. Like women a nunnery or men on a big Navy ship, there's homosexualy those s.
It's no more an argument favor of human gay relatnships than is a ll for children to swallow their fish whole or sleep on rocks. Ined, scientists have found homosexual behavr throughout the animal growg body of science has been creasgly drawn to charged bat about homosexualy Amerin society, on subjects om gay marriage to sodomy laws, spe reluctance om experts the field to extrapolate om animals to humans.
Gay groups argue that if homosexual behavr occurs animals, is natural, and therefore the rights of homosexuals should be protected. ''But if homosexualy occurs among animals, do that necsarily mean that is natural for humans, too? And that rais a faiar qutn: if homosexualy is not a choice, but a rult of natural forc that nnot be ntrolled, n be immoral?
'GAY' PENGU COUPLE HAD NO EGG OF THEIR OWN. SO THEY STOLE ONE.
* gay penguins roy and silo *
Female bonobos have been observed to engage homosexual activy almost his own book, ''Amerin scientists who vtigated bonobos never discsed sex at all, '' said Mr.
TANGO AND SILO, THE GAY PENGUS OM ‘AND TANGO MAK THREE,’ ARE OFFICIALLY EX-GAY
' ''Then 1999, Bce Bagemihl published ''Blogil Exuberance: Animal Homosexualy and Natural Diversy'' (St. (Homosexualy, he says, refers to any of the behavrs between members of the same sex: long-term bondg, sexual ntact, urtship displays or the rearg of young. ''Sexual Exuberance'' was also ced 2000 by gay rights groups opposed to Ballot Measure 9, a proposed Oregon statute prohibg teachg about homosexualy or bisexualy public schools.
He asserts that while same-sex behavr is sometim found ptivy, is actually seen more equently studi of animals the birds, for stance, studi show that 10 to 15 percent of female wtern gulls some populatns the wild are homosexual.
Their bonds, too, may persist for mammals, male and female bottlenose dolphs equently engage homosexual activy, both ptivy and the wild. Rearchers have noted that some s same-sex behavr is more mon for dolphs and female rh maqu, a type of monkey, also exhib homosexualy ptivy and the wild. Vasey, a profsor of psychology and nroscience at the Universy of Lethbridge Canada, who studi homosexual behavr Japane maqu, is edg a new book on homosexual behavr animals, to be published by Cambridge Universy Prs.
GAY PENGUS PROVE THAT LOVE IS WNG
''Some scientists say homosexual behavr animals is not necsarily about sex. Marlene Z, a profsor of blogy at the Universy of California at Riversi and thor of ''Sexual Selectns: What We Can and Can't Learn About Sex From Animals'' (Universy of California Prs, 2002), not that scientists have speculated that homosexualy may have an evolutnary purpose, ensurg the survival of the speci. By not producg their own offsprg, homosexuals may help support or nurture their relativ' young.
''That is a ntributn to the gene pool, '' she Ja Mann, a profsor of blogy and psychology at Geetown Universy, who has studied same-sex behavr dolph lv, their homosexualy ''is about bond formatn, '' she said, ''not about beg sexual for life. The homosexual behavr of the young lv ''uld be practicg'' for that later, ccial adult perd, she, scientists say, jt bee homosexualy is observed animals don't mean that is only geilly based. The two that differ most om each other are most siar their homosexual Z said, ''You have clatns that are more or ls supported by our gen and some environmental circumstanc get exprsed.
GAY PENGUS BREAK UP
''In Nazi Germany, one very mon terpretatn of homosexualy was that was animalistic behavr, subhuman, '' he the animal studi do show, Ms.
7 wh an article about homosexual behavr animals, cludg bottlenose dolphs, was published error.
CHICAGO (BP)–A children’s book based on a te story about two “gay pengus” is g ncern om parents several schools and towns natnwi, and th far the ntroversy largely has ignored an important fact — the pengus long ago spl up, wh one of them gog on to nt wh the oppose sex. “Of urse, we know the kids eventually are gog to learn about the homosexual liftyle, ” she said.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO: THE GAY PENGUS
The book was published before the two pengus Throckmorton, associate profsor of psychology at Grove Cy College Pennsylvania, joked that Silo was the “world’s first ex-gay pengu. ”“At tim gay activists will e the animal kgdom to support the lk between naturalism and human sexualy, and yet when Silo … took up wh a female pengu, the gay activists were downplayg the importance of that, ” Throckmorton told Baptist Prs.
”Several years ago, when the news about Roy and Silo’s “gay relatnship broke, ” liberal activists quickly poted to as a supportg argument for “gay marriage” the human world.
FLAP OVER A TALE OF GAY PENGUS
“Ined, if homosexual marriag exist the animal kgdom, they mt be normal.
PLEASE, NOT THE GAY PENGUS AGA
”But Throckmorton said neher si of the “gay marriage” bate should “read too much to” the relatnship between Roy and Silo — whether the two pengus are together or apart.
Stori of homosexual behavr among pengus are well-documented and well-loved. For a while, Roy and Silo, a pair of male Chstrap pengus New York Zoo, were the world’s most famo gay uple, buildg a nt together and even hatchg and rearg abandoned chick named Tango. Stephen Dobson, one of the thors of the study published the journal Ethology, said that when he observed the lony over time he found that all the “gay” pengus chose a heterosexual partner eventually and that female pairs would also “spl up” to raise an egg wh a male partner.
Related: 'Gay' Animals: 10 Alternative Liftyl the WildSome chicks the zoo's pengu brood have already hatched, and animal regivers are keepg a close eye on the male uple, who are takg turns warmg their ill-gotten egg, DutchNews reported. More than 130 birds speci are known for homosexual behavr, which n clu plex urtship ruals, genal ntact and even ntg together for years, Live Science prevly reported.