According to Reuters, gay and lesbian organizations are in an uproar. It seems that male penguins in the zoo of Bremerhaven, Germany, have been attempting to mate with one another and to hatch offspring out of stones.(While We're At It)(Brief Article)

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, May, 2005 by Neuhaus, Richard

According to Reuters, gay and lesbian organizations are in an uproar. It seems that male penguins in the zoo of Bremerhaven, Germany, have been attempting to mate with one another and to hatch offspring out of stones. The zoo has imported some female penguins from Scandinavia. In response to protests, the zoo's director, Heike Kueck, says, "Nobody here is trying to break up same-sex pairs by force.

We don't know if the males are really gay or just got together because of a lack of females." The protesters are not appeased. Giving the penguins a choice would deprive them of the choice of being gay. And who knows whether, given time enough, the stones might hatch?