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"gay" penguin later mated with a famale penguin
==Need==
==Need==
Not to belabor the point, but I don't really see this article being ''encyclopedic'' enough to warrant all of this work going into it. An article specifically about ''two'' "gay" penguins? I once again suggest deleting this article. -[[User:DrSandstone|DrSandstone]] 14:03, 25 November 2008 (EST)
Not to belabor the point, but I don't really see this article being ''encyclopedic'' enough to warrant all of this work going into it. An article specifically about ''two'' "gay" penguins? I once again suggest deleting this article. -[[User:DrSandstone|DrSandstone]] 14:03, 25 November 2008 (EST)
==One-sidedness==
So far all the references have been one-sided. Here's something I found on Wikipedia:
Candi Cushman, education analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said the book is far from a “true story.” “It’s very misleading,” she said, “and it’s a very disingenuous, inaccurate way to promote a political agenda to little kids. What they’re not telling kids is that the supposedly gay penguin who is the star of this story later mated with a female penguin in real life. The penguin’s heterosexual behavior was widely reported in national news, including the Chicago Tribune. “Besides the point that it’s not even an accurate story, the bottom line is that elementary school libraries are not appropriate places to push political agendas.”[9]
Unfortunately, the NY Times link seems to have expired. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 15:23, 25 November 2008 (EST)