the boysWell, it appears that God has spoken once again on the subject of gay parenting, and while I'm not exactly champing at the bit to adopt a baby and go shopping for diaper bags, car seats, and a decent money market fund for the little TRexling's education, I certainly support the recent statements of noted clergyman, Yahweh (also known as Jehovia, Our Lord and Father, and, most commonly, just "God") on the topic of same-sex families.

To wit:

  Mon May 21, 12:03 PM ET

LONDON (AFP) – A pair of gay flamingos have adopted an abandoned chick, becoming parents after being together for six years, a British conservation organisation said Monday.

Carlos and Fernando had been desperate to start a family, even chasing other flamingos from their nests to take over their eggs at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) in Slimbridge near Bristol.

But their egg-sitting prowess made them the top choice for taking an unhatched egg under their wings when one of the Greater Flamingo nests was abandoned.

The couple, together for six years, can feed chicks by producing milk in their throats.

Well, isn't that handy?  Clearly God planned for this very contingency.  How do you like that?

"Fernando and Carlos are a same sex couple who have been known to steal other flamingos' eggs by chasing them off their nest because they wanted to rear them themselves," said WWT spokeswoman Jane Waghorn.

"They were rather good at sitting on eggs and hatching them so last week, when a nest was abandoned, it seemed like a good idea to make them surrogate parents."

Aw.  That's so sweet.  Now they just need to move into a split-level ranch and put little plastic people on metal stands in the front yard.

Gay flamingos are not uncommon, she added.

"If there aren't enough females or they don't hit it off with them, they will pair off with other males," she said.

The thing I love about stories like this is the deep psychological upset it will cause in the hearts and minds of so many feckless "Christian" Rapture-Baiters.

Rapture-Bait: Homosexuality isn't natural!

TRex: Then how come it happens so often in nature?

RB: Homosexuality is against God's Law!

TRex: Ah, well, no.  Homosexuality is against an antiquated set of man-made laws.  You can tell God himself doesn't mind Teh Gays because, well, he makes so many of us.  Clearly he's enjoying his work, don't you think?  Just look how good looking and talented we are, or well, at least, I am.

RB's head: Ka-BOOM! 

But just in case Carlos and Fernando's case isn't enough to make you smile, how about this story?

No Sex Please, We're Female Sharks

Science Daily — Female sharks can reproduce without having sex, scientists have found. A female hammerhead shark has given birth without mating with a male and its offspring has no paternal DNA.

An international team of researchers from Queen’s University Belfast, the Guy Harvey Research Institute at Nova Southeastern University in Florida and the Henry Doorly Zoo in Nebraska has found evidence that sharks can reproduce asexually by an unusual method known as “parthenogenesis”. This is the first scientific report of asexual reproduction in sharks.

Or this:

LONDON, England (Reuters) — Flora, a pregnant Komodo dragon living in a British zoo, is expecting eight babies in what scientists said on Wednesday could be a Christmas virgin birth.

Flora has never mated, or even mixed, with a male dragon, and fertilized all the eggs herself, a process culminating in parthenogenesis, or virgin birth. Other lizards do this, but scientists only recently found that Komodo dragons do too.

"Nobody in their wildest dreams expected this. But you have a female dragon on her own. She produces a clutch of eggs and those eggs turn out to be fertile. It is nature finding a way," Kevin Buley of Chester Zoo in England said in an interview.

He said the incubating eggs could hatch around Christmas.

And finally, this:

Mary Cheney gave birth today to perhaps the most anticipated baby in contemporary U.S. politics — her first child, Samuel David Cheney, whom she will raise with her longtime partner Heather Poe.

The 8-pound, 6-ounce boy is the sixth grandchild for Dick Cheney. The vice president and his wife Lynne, both beaming, posed for a photo with the baby just hours after his 9:46 a.m. birth at Washington's Sibley Hospital.

Congratulations, Mary and Heather!  Now do the right thing and raise that baby in accordance with God's will, as a Liberal.

Yes, straight people, I have a little bit of bad news for you.  You've become terribly passe, and frankly, you're kind of starting to embarrass the rest of us.  So, yeah, if you guys could take a little time out from your frantic breeding, feeding, marrying, divorcing, fighting, and fighting about breeding, we'd appreciate if you'd at least do something about your awful haircut and those hideous clothes.

Thanks!

Love,
The Gays

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