{"id":7640,"date":"2006-11-17T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-18T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=7640"},"modified":"2006-11-17T17:49:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-18T00:49:00","slug":"gay-penguins-outed-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=7640","title":{"rendered":"Gay Penguins Outed [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/my.earthlink.net\/article\/nat?guid=20061117\/455d41d0_3ca6_1552620061117-479560830\" title=\"in children's book\">in children&#8217;s book<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe gay penguin issue has really been buried, I think, by all of this War On Terror nonsense.&nbsp; These fictionalized penguins are obviously deeply devoted to one another and capable of providing a loving and stable home to Tango, so I don&#8217;t understand what the issue is.&nbsp; If Catholic adoption services don&#8217;t want to get involved, I think that&#8217;s their business.&nbsp; I think that the issue of gay penguin marriage ought to be left to the legislatures of the various states.&nbsp; I have no problem with gay penguin civil unions.&nbsp; Some of my best friends are gay penguins, so I don&#8217;t want any of you trolls calling me a wingnut penguihomophobe.&nbsp; Got it?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,169653,00.html\" title=\"I was wrong\">I was wrong<\/a>.&nbsp; Apparently the gay penguin couple, Silo and Roy, broke up and Silo started seeing a <i>female<\/i> penguin.&nbsp; No word yet on a follow-up book.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI WONDER whether <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/4352011\/\" title=\"Gersh Kuntzman \">Gersh Kuntzman <\/a>has rethought his position in light of further developments.&nbsp; Someone ought to check . . .\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPENTAGON: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/11\/16\/AR2006111601088.html\" title=\"Homosexuality like bed wetting\">Homosexuality like bed wetting<\/a>, not like mental retardation (unfair, I know; I applaud this revision)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/livescience\/homosexualanimalsoutofthecloset\" title=\"VALUABLE FRANCHISE\">VALUABLE FRANCHISE<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Homosexuality has been observed in more than 1,500 species, and the phenomenon has been well described for 500 of them,&#8221; said Petter Bockman, project coordinator of the exhibition.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nSubscribe now to receive the entire Time-Warner Gay Animals series at a <i>20% discount<\/i>.&nbsp; Great Christmas gift!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nGay Animals: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/bestimg\/index.php?url=&amp;cat=gayanimals\" title=\"Alternate Lifestyles in the Wild\">Alternate Lifestyles in the Wild<\/a>.&nbsp; I wasn&#8217;t aware that animals had lifestyles, but okay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in children&#8217;s book. The gay penguin issue has really been buried, I think, by all of this War On Terror nonsense.&nbsp; These fictionalized penguins are obviously deeply devoted to one another and capable of providing a loving and stable home to Tango, so I don&#8217;t understand what the issue is.&nbsp; If Catholic adoption services don&#8217;t want to get involved, I think that&#8217;s their business.&nbsp; I think that the issue of<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"btnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=7640\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}