{"id":6506,"date":"2009-06-04T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T09:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/06\/a-groveling-lackey-on-gay-penguins\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T14:56:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T21:56:23","slug":"a-groveling-lackey-on-gay-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/06\/a-groveling-lackey-on-gay-penguins.html","title":{"rendered":"A groveling lackey on gay penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>A reader writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m a college student who greatly enjoys reading your blog. Your combination of orthodoxy and humor never fails to simultaneously inform and entertain me. If I had any money to spare, I\u2019d definitely contribute to your fund! I\u2019ll just have to send some prayers your way instead.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I saw this story on the BBC about \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/esciencenews.com\/sources\/bbc.news.science.nature\/2009\/06\/03\/gay.penguins.rear.adopted.chick.after.hatching.egg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">gay penguins<\/a>\u201d in a zoo in Germany, and I was wondering if you\u2019d heard about it. It makes me want to laugh and smack my head against something at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>P.S.-As a humble \u201cfollower\u201d, can I suggest that you give us shorter poems to memorize, at least for starters? \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks for your kind words! And thanks especially for your prayers, which do me great good! I\u2019m glad the blog is of service to you!  I hear from college students quite often and it gives me great hope for the future of the Church!<\/p>\n<p>I recall the gay penguin story from a while back.  Very silly agitprop.  Basic MSM rule of thumb: If it supports the notion that we can do whatever we want with our pelvis, then we must Heed the Wisdom of Nature.  If it calls us to do things not in accord with the post-modern bourgeois values of your average newsroom inhabitant, then We Must Not Behave Like Animals.<\/p>\n<p>PS.  Since you have been a good cringing lickspittle, I will give you a day off.  However, I expect two haiku of praise and veneration tomorrow.  I have to keep up my rep as a power-besotted tyrant, you know.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader writes: I\u2019m a college student who greatly enjoys reading your blog. Your combination of orthodoxy and humor never fails to simultaneously inform and entertain me. 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