# Teaching your kids about The Birds and The Bees takes on a new meaning

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**Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teaching-your-kids-about-the-birds-and-the-bees-takes-on-a-new-meaning/376296/1 "2006-10-13T13:01:37Z")

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> \*\*Birds and bees may be gay: museum exhibition \*\*  
> OSLO (Reuters) - The birds and the bees may be gay, according to the world’s first museum exhibition about homosexuality among animals.
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> With documentation of gay or lesbian behavior among giraffes, penguins, parrots, beetles, whales and dozens of other creatures, the Oslo Natural History Museum concludes human homosexuality cannot be viewed as “unnatural.”
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> One radical Christian said organizers of the exhibition – partly funded by the Norwegian government – should “burn in hell,” Soeli said. Laws describing homosexuality as a “crime against nature” are still on the statutes in some countries.

[http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061012/ts\_nm/environment\_homosexuality\_dc](http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061012/ts_nm/environment_homosexuality_dc)