Gay animals condemned by Christians

[Clintonista2]

(Old article, but a great one. The comments at the bottom are good too)

The birds and the bees may be gay, according to the world's first museum exhibition about homosexuality among animals.

With documentation of gay or lesbian behaviour among giraffes, penguins, parrots, beetles, whales and dozens of other creatures, the Oslo Natural History Museum concludes human homosexuality cannot be viewed as "unnatural".

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One radical Christian said organisers of the exhibition -- partly funded by the Norwegian government -- should "burn in hell", Soeli said. Laws describing homosexuality as a "crime against nature" are still on the statutes in some countries.

Greek philosopher Aristotle noted apparent homosexual behaviour among hyenas 2,300 years ago but evidence of animal homosexuality has often been ignored by researchers, perhaps because of distaste, lack of interest or fear or ridicule.



More @ http://exchristian.net/exchristian/2006/10/gay-animals-condemned-by-christians.html

[hobbit709]

1. Bees are all female until they need to produce a male for mating.

[sarge43]

7. Current research says that the nurse bees make the determination

of need for drones. By subtle pheromones they signal the comb builders to make wide drone size cells - a drone is half again the size of a worker. The queen will lay nonfertilized eggs in those cells which develop into drones. A healthy hive in full production may contain up to 50K workers and less than a thousand drones.

The only sexual activity bees go in for takes place outside the hive and it's boys on girl, the bridal flight - as many as dozen drones will mate with a virgin queen.

[Recursion]

2. How can anyone who has ever owned a male dog...

...doubt that at least bisexuality is rampant in nature?

[Myrina]

6. My metrosexual Beagle will be devastated!

He's come completely out of the closet within the last year and is feeling secure with himself ... now this condemnation by the Bible freaks.

Grrr.

[unpossibles]

8. doesn't have to be male, just ambitious....

my female dog is generally trying to up her rank in the pack, and loves to hump other dogs, and tucks her butt under to not let them hump her.

In dog world, it's got little to do with sex, actually, but... regardless, she's a top.

[juno jones]

12. Ha Ha!

We used to have a male wolf hybrid. He'd ignore females and go straight to the males- generally (as my husband put it), the canine equivalents of Ernest Borgnine.

No accounting for taste, eh?

[Recursion]

14. Ha... I guess there are chubby chasers in nature too.

Now we only have to find animals who are MILF hunters.

[mitchtv]

15. Oh, We had a WH for 14 years

she was basically strate, Only liked smaller males, she was all top.

[amihol]

3. stupid things :)))

stupid things :)))

[JackintheGreen]

4. It doesn't stop there: Homosexual necrophilia in mallard ducks!

Kees Moeliker won the 2003 Ig Nobel prize (http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2003)for the following paper:

http://www.nmr.nl/nmr/binary/retrieveFile?instanceid=16&itemid=2574&style=default

I wish I could quote it, but the link is a .pdf. The case description is marvelous.

And even freepers had some fun with this one (two years too late):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1358467/posts

The jokes on this one are endless.

[sarge43]

9. Anyone who has watched birds, let alone kept them, knows

when birds are in full rampaging hormonal mode they love the one they're with and are with the one they love. Necrophilia is the least of it - same sex, group sex, interspecies sex, "what?!" it stood still sex, it seemed like a good idea at the time sex, birds are there.

One of my cockatiels gets off on the dvd remote and it neither acts nor looks like a female 'tiel.

[fascisthunter]

5. How Narrow-Minded

This is why I am not religious. I just can't swallow such stupid shit as this. What a waste of time....


There go Sea Horses! :rofl:

[DarkTirade]

16. When reality doesn't agree with me... that means reality is wrong!

:P

[closeupready]

10. "Still, it is unclear why homosexuality survives since it seems a genetic dead-end."

Is this the dumbest statement ever or what?

That's like saying, "it's unclear why masturbation survives since it seems a genetic dead-end" or "it's unclear why itching survives since it seems a genetic dead-end." Sheez. People who claim to have all these degrees and to be so smart can be so incredibly STUPID.

[readmoreoften]

17. Why have corporate executives who want to be diapered and given pacifiers survived?

And, you might ask, why I go ahead and put that image in your mind?

[MuseRider]

11. My goats would explode

their heads or at least their little, shriveled up minds.

[qb]

13. It's time to bring back animal trials...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_trial

It's only fair that they be tried and sentenced for their crimes against nature.
:sarcasm:

[and-justice-for-all]

18. Like religion is natural...

the belief in the unprovable and unlikely is not NATURAL! Religion is a crime against Humanity.