Confirmed: God is slightly gay (Mark Morford)

Confirmed: God is slightly gay
Just ask the animals. As soon as they stop having all that homosexual sex
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

I am sitting here right now smiling just a little, fondly recalling that famously controversial children's book, the one about the gay penguins.

Remember? That positively adorable pair of them, at the Central Park Zoo, who had adopted an abandoned egg and then hatched it themselves and were raising the chick together as a couple, even though the chick was clearly not theirs -- though of course how penguins can actually tell whose kid is whose is still a question. Never mind that now.

The best part: the story was absolutely true. The book, "And Tango Makes Three," was beautiful and sweet and touching in all the right ways -- except, of course, for the fact that it was also totally evil.

For indeed, the penguins in question, named Roy and Silo, were both males. This meant they were clearly in some sort of ungodly, aberrant homosexual relationship, mocking natural laws and defying God's will that all creatures only cohabitate with the opposite sex and buy microfiber sofas from Pottery Barn and eat their meals in silent resentment and never have sex.

Worst of all, the book depicted this relationship, this "family," as perfectly OK, as no big deal, as even (shudder) normal. After all, Roy and Silo didn't seem to give much of a damn. Tango sure seemed happy, what with not being left for dead and all. As of this writing, the Central Park Zoo has yet to be swallowed into a gaping maw of sinful doom. Unless you count those parents.

I am right now amused at this because it turns out Roy and Silo were not really so much of an anomaly at all. Nor were they some sort of unholy freakshow, an immoral mistake in the eyes of a wrathful hetero God. Far from it. Turns out they were, in fact, far more the norm than many humans, even to this day, want to let on.

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Religion always has a "but."	ThomCat	Jul-01-09 01:05 AM	#1
The response to that ...	RoyGBiv	Jul-01-09 01:20 AM	#3
Fascinating & Fun! Thanks for posting. n/t	TokenQueer	Jul-01-09 01:09 AM	#2
Welcome to DU!	Kadie	Jul-01-09 11:35 AM	#6
Heh - "wrathful hetero God."	nomorenomore08	Jul-01-09 03:21 AM	#4
Very good article.	Delphinus	Jul-01-09 07:31 AM	#5
I love Mark Morford!	Matariki	Jul-01-09 11:42 AM	#7
He writes some amazing articles.	Kadie	Jul-01-09 05:17 PM	#8