Wedding March
of the Penguins?

Just when you thought it was safe to stock up on sardines and bottles of Arctic water for the coming "gay" penguin wedding boom, one of the most prominent "gay" penguins has to spoil it.

You may have heard by now that Silo, one half of the allegedly homosexual penguin couple at New York's Central Park Zoo of Roy and Silo, has left Roy for a young female named Scrappy. This is not a hoax. The New York Post broke the story on Sept. 16 in an article titled, "Chilly Willies."

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Before reporting this to you, I wanted to make sure the story was true. Sure enough, Fox News confirmed it, although Newsweek and the New York Times had yet to weigh in.

The Times has been annoyed of late because the hit movie "March of the Penguins" is stubbornly heterosexual and pro-family with nary a "gay" penguin in sight. This brings joy to conservatives and stings the conscience of liberals who preach that everything evolved randomly, with no particular design or Designer.

As for Roy, as is probably the case with the Times, he's inconsolable. He keeps staring at a wall. No word on the current mental state of Tango, the female hatchee from the egg that Roy and Silo raised as their own after trying to hatch a rock given to them by the zookeepers. Hey, nobody said Roy and Silo were penguin rocket scientists. And still, they rated a children's book, "And Tango Makes Three," which schools are supposed to give to kids to persuade them that you don't need a mom and a dad.

For homosexual activists, embarrassment over this penguin breakup has to rank right up there with Anne Heche leaving Ellen DeGeneres and marrying ... a man. Or Julie Cypher leaving Melissa Etheridge. Or Elton John leaving his current domestic partner and marrying – wait, that hasn't happened yet.

For years, we've been hearing that the presence of "gay" penguins is proof that there's nothing normal about males and females mating, and that Roy and Silo's parenting skills are sublime. The corollary is that society should bless bride-less or groom-less "weddings," and that we should turn boys and girls over to homosexual couples without hesitation.

Don't believe it? Listen to New York Post Brooklyn Bureau Chief Gersh Kuntzman in a column he wrote for Newsweek on March 2, 2004. After rightly disparaging the "commitment-challenged" "Sex and the City" women as role models, he wrote, only partly tongue-in-cheek, that, in Roy and Silo

We finally had a First Couple of Monogamy that would show the world that love and fidelity could still conquer all (plus they looked great in their little tuxedos). Roy and Silo's love is a story for the ages ... When the baby chick was born, Roy and Silo cared for it ... So if Roy and Silo can do it, why can't humans? Indeed, if homosexual marriages exist in the animal kingdom, they must be normal.

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I think it's poetic justice that it was none other than Mr. Kuntzman's own New York Post that got the scoop on the penguin break up. That's the way the blubber crumbles, Mr. Kuntzman.

Six years ago, when Roy and Silo became an item, reports began coming in from around the world about "gay" animals at zoos. Books are now being published by homosexual scientists about "gay" animals in "all species." Activists actually use this as a prime talking point in debates on same-sex "marriage." Conveniently, they decline to derive lessons for humans from other animal behaviors, such as incest, cannibalism and, well, the Law of the Jungle.

I'm not sure where the penguin tale goes from here, but I can guarantee one thing: Silo, and probably Roy, will be dropped from the media "A" list faster than you can swallow a smelt.

Robert Knight is director of the Culture & Family Institute, an affiliate of Concerned Women for America.