They're not mine.... they're Xeph's. I don't believe in glittery pink Barbie undies.....
I mean, what?
I mean, what?
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Show posts MenuQuote from: TangleThe problem with saying that "they broke up" is that it anthropomorphizes these penguins, and gives them human motivations for their actions. You can't point to a gay penguin couple and say "oh look, honey, see how they love each other and are committed to each other." The connotations of "committment" and "family" have completely different meaning for humans than they do for penguins, or any other animals, for that matter. The gay rights activists may have been right about pointing to the penguins as an example of a biological basis for homosexuality across the animal kingdom, but that's not the issue. We want gay people to be treated as people, not animals. We have to decide what is right and wrong on a human, moral level.*wanders over and humps your leg for a moment, then wanders off*
The activists are just hurting their case by trying to use the penguins to prove that gay couples can raise a happy family. Not just because one of them ran off with some other penguin from California, but because this animal family is not a human family in the deeper sense of the word. If you're trying to say that gay couples can commit and can raise perfectly well-adjusted children, the place to look for examples of this is in the real world, not some penguin fantasy land.
Sorry. I just get a little irritated when people go all "squee" over this stupid penguin pair rather than, you know, going out and actually supporting some gay people. By like *gasp* voting! Or donating to advocacy organizations! Or campaigning!
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