New York — Roy and Silo, two chinstrap penguins at the Central Park Zoo in Manhattan, are completely devoted to each other. For nearly six years now, they have been inseparable. They exhibit what in penguin parlance is called “ecstatic behavior”: That is, they entwine their necks, they vocalize to each other, they have sex. Silo and Roy are, to anthropomorphize a bit, gay penguins.
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I wonder how long it will take for the Massachusetts’s court to remove references from human in the laws concerning marriage. If we are only rational animals with no inherent dignity given by a creator God then why shouldn’t animals involved in loving committed relationships be left out from our marriage laws. Now there are some who would object at this or equivocate at only allowing gay penguin unions, but they are all penguinphobes. If God didn’t want penguins to get married he wouldn’t have created them so that they never needed to rent a tuxedo.
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And here’s the money quote:
“You have this idea that the animal kingdom is strict, old-fashioned Roman Catholic,” she said, “that they have sex just to procreate.”
2nd paragraph from the bottom. And to think, I was wondering how the writer was going to get her pot shot in at our Church! Silly me! 🙁
They need to throw a female in the cage to see if these guys are really gay.
I’ve always thought that penguins were gay; after all, they always seemed to be smiling. Turns out, my conception of the word gay is seriously flawed.
Duh… you are grabbing articles from the San Francisco Bay area. Suggest you stop that nonsense.
Duh… you are grabbing articles from the San Francisco Bay area. Suggest you stop that nonsense.
Well, I never thought they were gay–I simply thought they were “metrosexual”–seeing as to how they are so dapperly dressed and all. 😉
I read this article before, and there are penguins in the cage with them. Female and male. They thought for the longest time that one of the penguins was female, but it was laying any eggs, so they did a test and found out both were male. I don’t believe they just had these two penguins together in one enclosure, but they had others in there too.