If God Had Wanted Clean Bathrooms He Wouldn’t Have Created Men
Well I’m glad to see the United States isn’t the only non-Muslim country with a jittery religious kook bin. They’ve got it bad in Norway too, of all places. First it was the zoo. No…not the kook zoo…the one in Oslo…
‘Gay Animals’ Exhibit Angers Conservative Christians
(Oslo) Oslo’s internationally acclaimed Natural History Museum is being assailed by Norwegian church groups over an exhibit called "Against Nature" which shows same-sex animal pairs.
The exhibit documents homosexuality among penguins, parrots, giraffes, whales and other animals and insects. A translation from Norwegian into English of a statement at the exhibit says
"We may have opinions on a lot of things, but one thing is clear — homosexuality is found throughout the animal kingdom, it is not against nature."
The exhibit opened Thursday features a photograph that attracted considerable attention of two sexually aroused whales rubbing together. Another shows two male giraffe’s engaged in sex.
"The sexual urge is strong in all animals. … It’s a part of life, it’s fun to have sex," exhibit organizer Geir Soeli told the Reuters news agency.
But conservative Christian groups are accusing the museum of displaying pornography. One evangelical pastor said museum directors should burn in hell.
The exhibit was partially funded by the government and church groups are demanding an investigation into how the grant was made.
Next thing you know they’ll be picketing the natural history museums that dare to tell their visitors that the earth isn’t really flat…right?
Wrong…
Aimless youth embroiled in lav affair
NORWAY has become embroiled in a dispute over toilets and the nature of masculinity.
The matter blew up because a primary school headmistress tried to ban boys from urinating while standing up.
Anne Lise Gjul, the head of a mixed primary school in the southern Norwegian city of Kristiansand, wanted to introduce the ban after complaints from cleaners that many boys could not aim properly.
The measure has upset right-wing Norwegian politicians, however, who say it blurs a God-given distinction between the sexes.
"If boys are not allowed to pee in the natural way that they have done for generations, then it amounts to an assault on God’s creations," thundered Vidar Kleppe, the head of Norway’s Justice and Order party.
Happy Monday. There isn’t a crazier thing you’ll see all week then a bunch of Norwegians thumping the bible for the god given right to pee standing up. And you thought they were bad here in America.
October 16th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
crazy! glad we are no the only crazies in the world
October 17th, 2006 at 8:40 am
The reason men have peed standing up for generations, is that for generations, it’s been women who clean the bathrooms. ¬.¬
October 26th, 2006 at 6:55 am
Im a european expat working in norway, and I followed up this story.
OK, Norway has got its bible belt too, but you cannot say that Norway has got it bad too! Believe me its social heaven compared to the US!
The fact that Oslo Universiteit and zoo put up this exhibition shows how ahead Norwegians are on those gender issues. No other country had put up some similar exhibit before, except for a Dutch zoo organizing tours to see gay couple of animals among the others.
But back to Norway, ahead in terms of gender equality, but sure you’ll still hear a baptist idiot once in a while sending someone to hell. Anyway, the current bishop of Oslo (I think that its his position) is infamously gay himself.
So I understand than in the perfect world that Norway is living in, women would consider making men sit on the toilet and not stand. It might be in the rightful interest of the cleaners, half of which complaining were probably men themselves.
Yes, Norway is full of surprises and lessons.