At trivia night this past week, one of the televisions in the bar was on CNN, and we saw a Headline News piece about the "gay penguins" of the Central Park Zoo. Okay, maybe I'm uninformed here, but I'd never heard of this before. Maybe it's just that I don't think it's news. But apparently, the gay penguins have been causing quite a controversy for years now.
It all starts a few years ago, when recurrent homosexual behavior among penguins in captivity was observed -- not just in New York, but in several other zoos as well.
Where it gets ludicrous is that apparently a number of people felt that the sanctity of marriage among humans was threatened by the behavior of these penguins... or something. They wanted the penguins "de-gayed." And so, equally losing sight of the fact that they're just penguins, gay rights activists leapt in to keep gay penguin couples from being broken up.
Apparently, this has all led to a point where the natural break-up of one of these gay penguin couples is now worthy of coverage on Headline News.
I still can't believe I'm seeing the phrase "gay penguin" on television -- and it's not an episode of South Park or something.
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What confuses me the most about this item is how we must have all forgotten about male dogs who hump each other and female dogs who hump male dogs.
Oh, and that Sanctity of Marriage stuff was just a Rovian Ruse. How the activist left fell for that one.
I watched March of the Penguins. I am now waiting with baited (and possibly fishy) breath for Gay Pride March of the Penguins.
"Stop being gay." - Stan Marsh
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