Posted on 02/16/2005 1:15:06 PM PST by r5boston
A German zoo has abandoned a plan to break up homosexual penguin couples after protests from gay rights groups.
The Bremerhaven Zoo in northern Germany had earlier flown in four female Humboldt penguins in an attempt to encourage three all-male couples to reproduce.
The zoo originally defended the experiment on the grounds that the birds were an endangered species. But after protests from gay rights groups, director Heike Kueck said the zoo was abandoning the plan.
"Everyone can live here as they please," Ms Kueck said.
She said it was not her intention, nor was it possible, to separate the gay couples by force and interest them in their new female companions.
She added that the gay penguins had shown little interest in the females, but this could have been because the program was started too late in the year.
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If it were up to the homosexuals, humans would be an endangered species.
...oh wait...but then there is cloning.
Ish!
being gay overrides endangered species? ....very interesting
How does one determine that the penguin is gay? Swishing on the ice? Did one call him Richard?......
LMAO!!! Rather have extinct penguins than introduce some heterosexual ones.
Jeez.
Oh thank God, now I can sleep tonite, zzzzzzzz!
John Kerry: "PERFECT!! Now we've gotta send Howard Dean out to register penguins to vote."
>>>Did one call him Richard?......<<
I believe he answered to Bruce!
That's one reason why the liberals are now in the minority.
"Everyone here can live as they please". No they can't, they are in captivity and were FORCED into same sex couples due to a lack of people being able to pair off an endagered species into a form that would save it!
Maybe the sodomites should pay for the plane ticket to the South Pole and back since now they will eventually have to go down there and catch some more.
Oh, and if the rocks aren't counted as the children of the same sex couples, is it a hate crime?
I'm trying to figure out whether the old phrase "birds of a feather" would better apply to pinguins or gays.
Maybe they should hold wedding ceremonies for the birds.
The average life span for gay penguins is only 10 to 12 years, compared to 15 to 20 years for heterosexual penguins.
If ten years ago someone told me that gay penguins would be a major news story some day, I would not have believed it.
It's always interesting to know what the PC priorities are. The Anita Hill case showed that feminism trumps black victimhood. Bill clinton and Juanita Broaddrick showed that defending abortion rights is more important than helping rape victims. Now we learn that the gay rights of Humboldt penguins trumps the survival of their species.
I suppose the right of penguins to enjoy gay sex, even if it kills them all, is analogous to the right of gays to spread AIDS among their friends, even if it kills them all.
But it's interesting to have that confirmed.
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