Politician fumes over "gay" elephant in zoo

[Richard]

Just when you think you've heard it all...

Politician fumes over "gay" elephant in zoo
Reuters, 10 Apr 2009

A Polish politician has criticized his local zoo for acquiring a "gay" elephant named Ninio who prefers male companions and will probably not procreate, local media reported Friday.

"We didn't pay 37 million zlotys ($11 million) for the largest elephant house in Europe to have a gay elephant live there," Michal Grzes, a conservative councilor in the city of Poznan in western Poland, was quoted as saying.

"We were supposed to have a herd, but as Ninio prefers male friends over females how will he produce offspring?" said Grzes, who is from the right-wing opposition Law and Justice party.

The head of the Poznan zoo said 10-year-old Ninio may be too young to decide whether he prefers males or females as elephants only reach sexual maturity at 14.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_elepha...oHxjegHHPtiBIF

Somebody might want to warn this guy to stay away from the San Francisco zoo.

Richard's $.02

[mojaveman]

Somebody might want to warn this guy to stay away from the San Francisco zoo.

Perhaps he can sell his elephant to the San Francisco zoo. I understand that even animals will now be allowed to have same sex marriages in California.