[Jeanette X]

Originally Posted by Pharaoh

You mean the two gay penguins at the Central Park Zoo in Manhattan that zoo keepers gave an egg to raise. That's hardly natural is it? I'm talking about animals in the wild, where that never happens.

http://www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common...es/default.htm

"Flamingos are a good example" says MacFarlane "Six percent of them actually form male-male pairs that engage in all the same things a male-female couple will engage in, including courtship and parenting. They may actually take over a nest and raise the young."

Never happens, huh?

Originally Posted by Pharaoh

I'd rather a nice normal couple adopt children, so they can have a mother and father, not two gay men, as parents.

But in the absence of an adoptive heterosexual couple, isn't adoption of a child by two men or two women better than being in a state run foster care system?