Watching the Sulzberger Family
Pinch Sulzberger Dominates Gay Marriage Debate with his New York Times and Boston Globe Newspapers

   The debate over gay marriage continues to be totally dominated by the newspapers owned and operated by the Sulzberger family, with Pinch Sulzberger as Chairman.

   NY Times Is Excited by 'Homosexual' Animals
   By Attorney J. Edward Pawlick

  The New York Times published an article on Feb. 7 about animals having homosexual sex in a desperate attempt to show that homosexuality among humans is "natural" and probably genetic.

   The news came as no surprise to farmers and others who know that when cows are in heat, they rub themselves on anything that feels good, including any other cow that happens to be standing there. They also know that if the other cow stands still and allows the cow to mount her, then that cow is also in heat. That common knowledge is now being classified as homosexual sex. Also, if the animal is placed by herself at that time, she will run up and down the fence, bellowing at the top of her lungs, in an attempt to escape and find a bull, which is heterosexual sex and makes all cows bi-sexual.

   But it is surprising to most to discover this "natural" conduct being recommended for human females by the Sulzbergers and their New York Times.

   The article revealed that some scientists are spending their lives studying this animal behavior, with the leader being Frans de Waal, director of the Living Links Center of the Yerkes Primate Center at Emory University in Atlanta. He published a book in 1997 about apes which practice similar behavior. Another book, published in 1999 by another scientist, Bruce Bagemihl, was cited by the American Psychiatric Association in a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court last year in Lawrence v. Texas, the case which challenged the state's anti-sodomy law.

   The reporter at the Times, Dinitia Smith, wrote her article in typical Sulzberger style, with the scintillating news at the beginning, some rebuttal near the end and then the wrap-up in favor of the Sulzberger thesis as the final conclusion.

   This story ended with the following from Marlene Zuk, a professor of biology at the U. of California: "Sexuality is a lot broader term than people want to think. You have this idea that the animal kingdom is strict, old-fashioned Roman Catholic, that they have sex just to procreate. [In certain apes] you see expressions of sex outside the period when females are fertile. Suddenly you are beginning to see that sex is not necessarily about reproduction. Sexual expression means more than making babies. Why are we surprised? People are animals."

   Most observers believe that humans should not be using animals as a guide to their behavior or that it is beneficial to teach teenage human females to rub each other's sexual organs because it feels good.

   Even some scientists were quoted. One, Prof. Paul Vasey, said, "For some people, what animals do is a yardstick of what is and isn't natural. They make a leap from saying if it's natural, it's morally and ethically desirable. [But] infanticide is widespread in the animal kingdom. To jump from that to say it is desirable makes no sense. We shouldn't be using animals to craft moral and social policies for the kinds of human societies we want to live in. Animals don't take care of the elderly. I don't particularly think that should be a platform for closing down nursing homes."

   The article, like all articles in the Sulzberger newspaper, tells the reader nothing about the background of the reporter or the scientists who are quoted and whether they have prejudices or preconceptions about the subject matter of their story.

   The title of the article is: "Love That Dare Not Squeak Its Name." Reporter Smith encapsulated the reason for writing it in this question, "[I]f homosexuality is not a choice, but a result of natural forces that cannot be controlled, can it be immoral?" But that is a big "if" which Pinch Sulzberger can have us debating forever if we take the bait. Now that the gay gene theory is dead, he will desperately put forth anything in his newspapers to achieve his plan for gay marriage across the nation.