Walden's Wits - Dogs Don't Moo, But Denverites Think They Do

Tuesday, August 15, 2006 at 12:03 PM

Dogs Don't Moo, But Denverites Think They Do

Back -- no, way back in October, 2005, I had a post about the "children's" book And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson. The book tells the story of two male penguins, Roy and Silo, who attempted to mate with each other. They were given an egg to care for by the zoo keepers and later, "Tango makes three." There's only one problem. The book was written before the story played out. Silo met Scrappy, a saucy female penguin fresh from California. Silo then jilted Roy, built a nest with Scrappy, and proceeded to mate with her. To suggest that Silo is the victim of right wing propaganda is ridiculous. Chinstrap penguins don't read, although they put the New York Times to its best use when they're traveling and don't have a penguin toilet around. I guess homosexuality is a behavior and not an immutable trait.

The truth doesn't seem to be affecting Denverites with money and an agenda. They have been pasting Colorado with TV ads, billboards and buses alike with pictures of dogs and a caption that reads "moo." Their point? Some people are just born different and they deserve rights reserved for married couples.

Does anyone else spot the fakery here? I mean, this isn't Reuter-gate with clone-stamped fauxtography, but it slips into the same vein. Reality is altered for the purpose of changing people's minds. Dogs don't moo, cows don't bark, and Coloradoans should know better.

One wonders what they're teaching in the Denver schools.

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Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by dtandfambly

One of the problems is that Americans have lost their ability to think, therefore they do not protest the comparison or check out stories for themselves. As we read about Emporer Nero in Roman History, I wondered why the people continued to follow him, why not rebel? From our point of view he was a ridiculously arrogant and foolish man, not a leader. He came back to a burned down city and built more of his buildings on the poeple's land! Even after this, the Romans believed his propaganda that it was the Christians who started the fire and took all of their anger out on them, not the selfish ruler. Are we becoming like Rome?

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Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - Animals teach us....

Posted by chris perry

Yes, pretty interesting the message of the "Born Different" campaign (see http://borndifferent.com) is using the catchiness of a dog mooing. Sure, dogs MOO. That makes sense! C'mon.

...and turltles abandon eggs in the sand, rabbits trample their newborns to death, and the mockingbird can imitate the sound of a cell phone....should we thus depend on the wild variety of nature to prove the morality of a person's sexuality?

But really, this campaign is not abour morality per se, but in changing legal rights of same-sex couples to be married. Gays don't need special treatment any more than a dog needs to graze the fields and a cow chase a ball.

Check out http://no-moo-lies.com

Chris Perry
Colorado Springs

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