Re: California Student Civil Rights Act

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:57:59 -0800, Beliavsky <beliavsky@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

I don't want my kids taught that homosexuality or transsexualism is
normal.

Of course.... It's not *normal,* just practiced in animal communities
as well as human ones.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0722_040722_gayanimal.html

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it. So go the lyrics
penned by U.S. songwriter Cole Porter.

Porter, who first hit it big in the 1920s, wouldn't risk parading his
homosexuality in public. In his day "the birds and the bees" generally
meant only one thing?sex between a male and female.

But, actually, some same-sex birds do do it. So do beetles, sheep,
fruit bats, dolphins, and orangutans. Zoologists are discovering that
homosexual and bisexual activity is not unknown within the animal
kingdom.

Roy and Silo, two male chinstrap penguins at New York's Central Park
Zoo have been inseparable for six years now. They display classic
pair-bonding behavior?entwining of necks, mutual preening, flipper
flapping, and the rest. They also have sex, while ignoring potential
female mates.

Wild birds exhibit similar behavior. There are male ostriches that
only court their own gender, and pairs of male flamingos that mate,
build nests, and even raise foster chicks.

Filmmakers recently went in search of homosexual wild animals as part
of a National Geographic Ultimate Explorer documentary about the
female's role in the mating game. (The film, Girl Power, will be
screened in the U.S this Saturday at 8 p.m. ET, 5 p.m PT on MSNBC TV.)

The team caught female Japanese macaques engaged in intimate acts
which, if observed in humans, would be in the X-rated category.

"The homosexual behavior that goes on is completely baffling and
intriguing," says National Geographic Ultimate Explorer correspondent,
Mireya Mayor. "You would have thought females that want to be mated,
especially over their fertile period, would be seeking out males."

Well, perhaps, in a roundabout way, they are seeking males, suggests
primatologist Amy Parish.

She argues that female macaques may enhance their social position
through homosexual intimacy which in turn influences breeding success.
Parish says, "Taking something that's nonreproductive, like mounting
another female?if it leads to control of a resource or acquisition of
a resource or a good alliance partner, that could directly impact your
reproductive success."


--
Dorothy

There is no sound, no cry in all the world
that can be heard unless someone listens ..

The Outer Limits
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