Posted on 02/25/2007 3:28:34 PM PST by Cavalcabo
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 8 percent of rams prefer to court other rams rather than ewes.
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 "ewe" and cry.
Former tennis star Martina Navratilova set 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 was angered that some rams were being killed so their brains could be examined. It said that encouraging one ram to mount another was -- I'm not making this up -- tantamount to rape.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
I thought I'd heard everything...
More of the Left's "War on Science," I see.
A sort-of tennis ping.
Heh. That took a minute to figure out.
Butting heads hurts!!
Thanks for the post.
It has been a chilly, damp day, and that column gave me the best laugh I had all day.
I enjoyed the writer's play on words.
Perhaps the guys on Brokeback Mountain got their ideas from homosexual rams.
Ewe are a homo.
[sticking fingers in both ears]
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!!!
I'm not listening to this!!
LA LA LA...
I knew rams were horny, but didn't know they could turn BAAAAHD
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