More on Christian penguins and other sexually active animals

From The Guardian (my own two bits after the excerpt):

If ever the world needed reminding about the oddities of America's Christian Right, its espousal of the film March of the Penguins provides us with a perfect example. To the movement's intellectuals, this French nature documentary - with its images of birds blinded by blizzards but still battling to protect their young - affirms decent, traditional norms like monogamy, sacrifice and child-rearing. Boys and girls have been urged to watch with notebooks to write down pious musings as they watch this life-affirming work. Penguin decency needs shouting about, it is argued. It shows us The Way.

But surely the penguin is only one of God's works. Earth also has Bonobo chimps, whose jaw-dropping sexual athleticism would make Hugh Hefner blush; well-fed cats that cruelly toy with their prey; and praying mantises that eat their spouses. How do we know that these creatures do not point The Way? We don't, therefore we should remember the words of the film company executive responsible for March of the Penguins: 'You know what? They're just birds.'

Camping in the Masai Mara in East Africa many years ago, I and my camping companions were intrigued by the common tendency of young male baboons to get a quickie sexual fix by insertion into the derriere of other young, and unperturbed, male baboons. The habit was about as common as a Christian righty picking his holy nose while driving the SUV. Not gay sinning baboons or naughty bonobos, nor intelligently designed penguins, nor even Christian rabbit-like-procreation. Simply all in a day's work on dirty, lusty, syncretic, gross, naturally and anthropogenically toxic, naturally and anthropogenically improved, anal-omnipresent and anal-constricting, cruel and generous, fantasy-filled and violently real, symmetrical and asymmetrical, dead and alive, rotten and fragrant, sublime, beautiful, beautiful Earth.

And these fools are in the dark of a theater with flashlights and spiral notebooks seeking signs of proof of a politically-manipulated idea debunked as absurd some three hundred years ago.

By the way, the film was made by French filmmakers.