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Where art thou, sanity?

posted by Zed on September 24 2005 13:02

A star attraction of Boston’s Public Garden is a pair of swans, Romeo and Juliet. After the swans were found to be neglecting their eggs, even kicking them into the water, park officials investigated. The eggs were unfertilized; both Romeo and Juliet are female.

And our culture is so screwed up that, despite how well-documented animal homosexuality is, this has created controversy.

The news ignited something of a debate among swan spectators in the Public Garden yesterday, with some insisting the city now should buy a true Romeo. […]

”I think this proves that there’s something in the environment in Massachusetts,” Brian Camenker, director of the Article 8 Alliance, a Waltham-based organization fighting same-sex marriage, joked in a telephone interview. ”Maybe it’s the water that’s causing all this lunacy.” […]

‘They should have a Romeo,” lamented Laura Elsheimer, a Hudson resident and owner of Sunshine Taxi Cab.

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