FIRST ROSIE, NOW WENDELL

“They’re one of the most dedicated couples in the penguin enclosure,” said Angie Pelekedis, a spokesman for the New York Aquarium, on Coney Island. “They sleep in the same nest. They even have sex, though I don’t know how successful that is.” This from the Telegraph’s story on the emergence of a gay penguin couple in New York. What’s interesting is that it seems to be far more than mere opportunistic homosexuality – which is so common in the animal kingdom. It’s actual coupling – and another nail in the coffin of the natural law argument that homosexuality is somehow unnatural. Only if you define nature as unnatural does the argument make any sense, given what we now know about humans and animals in the 21st century.