"To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing,
if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Friday, October 27, 2006

There’s a lot of hot animal action in Norway.

Giraffes mounting, aroused whales mating and dragonflies copulating--perfectly normal, tender scenes--although perhaps not for all, as in this case these animals are of the same sex.

Breaking what is taboo for some, the Oslo Natural History Museum is currently showing an exhibition on homosexuality in the animal kingdom which organisers say is the first of its kind in the world.

“As homosexual people are often confronted with the argument that their way of living is against the principles of nature, we thought that ... as a scientific institution, we could at least show that this is not true,” exhibition organiser Geir Soeli tells AFP.

“You can think whatever you want about homosexuals but you cannot use that argument because it is very natural, it’s very common in animal kingdom,” Soeli adds.

But the bests part comes right at the end.

While the images displayed at the Natural History Museum wash over passing school children, the exhibition has sparked consternation in conservative Christians.

A Lutheran priest said he hoped the organisers would “burn in hell,” and a Pentecostal priest lashed out at the exhibition saying tax payers’ money used for it would have been better spent helping the animals correct “their perversions and deviances.”

That’s right, folks.  We need to teach animals to be heterosexual.  Seriously, you can’t make this shit up.

Update: There’s more on this over at Reason.  Trust me, take a look.