There’s some gay birds that need reparative therapy, you see:
Same-sex pairs of monogamous birds are just as attached and faithful to each other as those paired with a member of the opposite sex.
The insight comes from a study of zebra finches – highly vocal, colourful birds that sing to their mates, a performance thought to strengthen the pair’s bond.
Scientists found that same-sex pairs of finches sang to and preened each other just like heterosexual pairs.
Huh, well. And apparently some of these birds are so gay that, even when they brought in attractive female birds, the majority of the male birds which had paired off together stayed together.
And that, folks, is what happens when wingnut warnings about impending homosexopocalypses go unheeded. Seriously, how gay is this?
Zebra finches are known to establish life-long monogamous relationships that are routinely consummated through behavior such as birdsong, mutual preening, and beak nuzzling.
All while watching Glee.
Maybe if Marcus and Janet need an extra hand, they can get Porno Pete to come over with his camera and look for birds wearing teeny-tiny assless chaps.
[Photo: Keith Gerstung/Wiki Commons/CC License, via Bryan Nelson]
“teeny tiny assless chaps” I love it.
it is not sex that attracts couples sex is attactant but personalties and love grow and bind great gay birds I gad a pair of gay drakes (ducks) and a gay rooster who only mounted the other roosters and not the hens.. it is ok they were made that way ask your funimentalist friends if god made a mistake
All while watching Glee.
Or HGTV. Because every gay bird needs a flashy backsplash in her kitchen.
Great. Now the TalEvan will want to outlaw zebra finches.
I kid. Actually they’ll sputter and say that doesn’t count because they’re just birds. And then they’ll turn around and talk about swans to defend life-long monogamy as the only way to fly*.
*Unless they want a divorce.
Haha that’s true Hunger TP, there was a movie a few years ago (I’m sure you remember) about monogamy and family loyalty in Emperor penguins–it was all the rage in evenjellocal churches. They forgot about the gay penguins who cared for and hatched an egg together. (I don’t know if they found it or stole it from a couple of breeders). The sarah palin crowd will probably start shooting zebra finches from helicopters (and real zebras just to make sure they kill the right species).
I wonder if the pope will issue a Bull declaring Zebra Finchus Homosexualibus to be ‘disordered’ and ‘intrinsically evil’ like the rest of us. >:)
Gary said “They forgot about the gay penguins who cared for and hatched an egg together. (I don’t know if they found it or stole it from a couple of breeders). “.
It was given to them by the zookeepers. The zookeepers noticed the pair incubating egg like rocks and when a female abondoned one of her eggs the zookeepers gave it to the gay penquins to see if they could hatch it and they did (and Tango makes three).
Yes, there is a children’s book with that title (And Tango Makes Three), we have it in our library system.
The book is the story of those gay penguins.
I know how they’ll defend it. “They’re animals, not HUMANS! They don’t know any better! We know better because we are made in the image of God blah blah blah…”
I used to go to a Christian school, and they tried to teach me that evolution was not real by showing a picture of a monkey’s foot alongside a human’s foot and saying “they are not the same,” as if that somehow made science untrue. No amount of facts, reason or evidence-based arguements is going to convinced people who want to hate or believe in nonsense becuase it makes them feel better about themselves.