How do the fact that there are gay/homosexual animals impact the ia that homosexualy is a s? |

Contents:

• CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
• 11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
• ARE ANY ANIMALS GAY? THE TTH ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY THE ANIMAL KGDOM
• CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
• IS MY PET GAY?
• HOW DO THE FACT THAT THERE ARE GAY/HOMOSEXUAL ANIMALS IMPACT THE IA THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS A S?

CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?

" Exampl such as one male mountg another have been ed as evince the argument that homosexualy is natural and therefore should be permted human begs. "[2] While some animals (like the ln) eat their young, neher supporters or opponents of "gay rights" have ed this as an argument favor of fantici or nnibalism.

11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL

A 1996 article published by the Natnal Associatn for Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy, an anizatn mted to the treatment of homosexualy, mters the arguments agast terpretatn of animal behavr as sanctng homosexualy.

Although homosexual behavr is very mon the animal world, seems to be very unmon that dividual animals have a long-lastg predisposn to engage such behavr to the excln of heterosexual activi. Dpe the hotly ntted nature of homosexualy animals, iologilly motivated zoo directors liberal Amerin ci and progrsive European untri are placg their supposedly homosexual animals on para and clarg to be fact that the animals are gay and that homosexualy occurs naturally nature. In addn to the famed "gay pengus" Roy and Silo at the Central Park Zoo Manhattan there has been a supposed homosexual animal photo and vio gallery the zoo Oslo, Norway, featurg flamgo and giraff, among other allegedly gay animals.

ARE ANY ANIMALS GAY? THE TTH ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY THE ANIMAL KGDOM

The nial that homosexualy is a choice by homosexual activists and liberals is siar to the behavr fat acceptance movement activists who sist that beg overweight is never a choice and ostracize ex-overweight people (see: fat acceptance movement for tails). Rearchers claim that the reason for homosexual behavr non-social animals is related to domance, preparg for future heterosexual enunters, to expel low-qualy sperm, and to engage reproductive supprsn. [13] The exampl show that non-social animals may have homosexual tennci, but are actg aggrsively orr to distribute their gen and to supprs the reproductn of other mal.

D., the renowned medil rearcher and Profsor at Columbia Universy, wrote BMJ (Brish Medil Journal) that there is a nflict relative to the theory of evolutn and the notn of geic termism ncerng homosexualy.

[16] Also, the Uned Stat, twice as many liberals as nservativ (46% vers 22%) believe people are born homosexual and liberals generally have more favorable opns about homosexualy. [18][19] Creatn Mistri Internatnal stat: "Homosexual acts go agast God’s origal sign of a man and a woman beg one flh — see Genis 1 and 2, endorsed by J Himself Matthew 19:3–6. ↑ The Animal Homosexualy Myth, Luiz Sérg Solimeo, excerpt om book Defendg a Higher Law: Why We Mt Rist Same Sex "Marriage" and the Homosexual Movement.

CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?

Abe • Acts • Agenda • Alholism • Anglophon • Animals • Arguments agast • Beliefs • Bible • Brokeback Mounta • California ban • Cs • Choic • Civil unn • Cross drsg • Cupid • Diversy • Domtic vlence • Don't ask • Dgs • Ex-homosexuals • Gay • Gay pri • Gay rights • Greece • Geics • Health • Heroism • Holot • Homophobia • Laws • Lbianism • Media • Mental • Murr • Nazis • Obssn • Opponents • Outg • Overg • Quot • Rearch • Revisnism • Rome • Schools • Stland • Smokg • Society • Statistics • Teenagers • Therapy • Views • Vlence • Persecutn by atheists. Over the past 20 years, a burst of rearch — driven part by a new generatn of scientists more acceptg of queerns — has shown signifint amounts of prevly unreported homosexual behavr throughout the animal kgdom, om flour beetl to gorillas.

Gee Murray Levick, the explorer who wrote about homosexual behavr Adélie pengus 1911, shield his observatns of pengu “pravy” om sual observers by rerdg them his field not g the Greek alphabet — and they were still cut om the official expedn reports. A proment mammalogist, Valeri Geist, uldn’t help but notice equent homosexual sex at his bighorn sheep field se the 1960s, but Geist avoid publishg those fdgs bee ma him “crge … to nceive of those magnificent beasts as ‘queers. The fact that a bird populatn wh many bond femal sharg a few mal between them would have higher reproductive output led historian and ornhologist Jared Diamond to dryly wonr whether “further study of homosexually paired female birds may help clarify what, if anythg, mal are good for — an evolutnary sense, of urse.

” In social animals, the logic go, absolute homosexualy would produce no offsprg, but absolute heterosexualy uld also be limg, as might make for an anism that is “poor at formg social allianc.

IS MY PET GAY?

Therefore, aversn to homosexual sex would have had to specifilly arise over the history of life, which this team of rearchers fds unlikely, sce the opportuny st of same-sex sex is relatively low. Vasey and his team methodilly tted the var theori that have been proposed for the persistence of homosexual sex the monkeys: that the femal were exprsg domance; that they were barterg for parental re; that they were rencilg after a fight; or (my personal favore) that they were stagg sexual enunters to exce nearby mal, what I’d ll the “you wish, guys” theory of monkey lbianism.

HOW DO THE FACT THAT THERE ARE GAY/HOMOSEXUAL ANIMALS IMPACT THE IA THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS A S?

Sodomy laws stayed on the books until 2003, when the Supreme Court led them unnstutnal — aid by an amic brief cg the rearch that had e out the meantime documentg homosexual activy among might have known about the sheer diversy of animal sexualy a long time ago if we, as a culture, had managed to lower our blrs. Neverthels, the topic of same-sex behavur animals, and how such behavurs may have e to evolve is a fascatg the terms ‘gay’ and ‘heterosexual’ shouldn't really be applied to animalsDpe s e our tle, terms like 'gay' or 'heterosexual’ may not be the bt to e when scribg sexual behavurs animals.

Bee of this, animal ‘homosexualy’ has often been ignored, or else scientists have enavoured to fd var adaptive benefs to expla s of the adaptive explanatns clu var hypothised social benefs.