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Maggie Gallagher And Andrew Sullivan
Blog About 'Gay Penguins'
September 19, 2005 -
Maggie Gallagher, President of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, has
recently engaged in a blog discussion about the documentary "March of the
Penguins" and whether or not "gay penguins" exist. The discussion included
comments from homosexual author Andrew Sullivan.
Gallagher noted that "March of the Penguins" showed that "Beauty, goodness, love
and devotion are all part of nature, built into the DNA of the universe. Even in
the harshest place on Earth (like 21ST-century America?), love will not only
endure, it will triumph."
Sullivan expressed appreciation for "March of the Penguins" as well, but noted
that the New York City Zoo has a pair of male penguins who found a pebble and
warmed and nurtured it together. They were later given a real egg and they
"nursed and brought to birth and childhood like every other heterosexual couple.
This alternative penguin family still thrives and you can go see them, if you
want."
Gallagher, however, noted that these male penguins, Roy and Silo, have split up
after six years together. Roy is alone and Silo has a penguin girlfriend. The
zoo-keeper claims there are other same-sex penguin pairings.
NARTH Scientific Advisory Committee Chairman, Dr. A. Dean Byrd has observed:
"There are significant differences between human sexuality and animal mounting
behavior. There simply is not a good animal model for human sexual behavior.
Pigs don't date, penguins don't go to church and fruit flies don't fall in
love."
Gay researcher Dr. Simon LeVay has noted: "Although homosexual behavior is very
common in the animal world, it seems very uncommon that individual animals have
a long-lasting predisposition to engage in such behavior to the exclusion of
heterosexual activities. Thus, a homosexual orientation, if one can speak of
such a thing in animals, seems to be a rarity." (Queer Science, 1996, p. 207.)
Additional Reading: James E. Phelan, "Deviated copulation among animals," Journal of Evolutionary Psychology,
Vol. 19, No. 1-2, pgs. 41-49, March, 1998; Phelan book review of Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality And Natural Diversity,
NARTH Bulletin, August 1999, Vol. 7, No. 2, pgs. 19, 31; The Animal Homosexuality Myth.
Updated: 8 February 2008
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