When I was in 10th grade I was required to take a religion class. At some point the teacher had this whole explanation about how there were two sources of rules for life, the written law (the bible) and the natural law (the world). And since homosexuality wasn’t in either, it was wrong.
At that point I raised my hand and tried to point out that there were gay monkeys, and he said, well, we can leave Aaron to talk about the sex lives of monkeys, and everyone laughed, and he went on to the next part of the class.
Well, fine. Let’s leave me to talk about gay penguins and how they successfully raised an adopted chick.
Also can I mention the Times’ URL naming conventions? Very sensible: date, section, and then a number and a word designating the topic: this article’s file name is 2004/02/07/arts/07GAY.html. Giggle.
Secretly Ironic 