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June 21, 2007
Hey, Animals Do It!
Posted by Dave Blount at June 21, 2007 7:18 AM
Here's a reassuring thought for pedophiles and other assorted perverts. The popular argument that homosexual behavior must be good because some animals exhibit it, which has been promoted at public expense and even to schoolchildren, can be expanded to all manner of sexual aberration and licentiousness.
As Dr. Robert A.J. Gagnon, Associate Professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary notes:
I never used my dear departed dog "Cocoa" and her instinctive sexual habits as a basis for determining what is "natural" behavior. You can find animals of various species where some part of the population at least practices incest, pedophilia, extreme polyamory, and cross-species sex, along with same-sex activity.
Less reassuring is Gagnon's insight that being "born gay" (or "born pedophile" or "born necrophiliac" or whatever) is no argument in favor of officially sanctifying depravity, as it is normal for people to have to struggle with immoral desires.
If animals do it, it must be okay. Or maybe not.
On a tip from Wiggins.
