This is getting out of hand. Or should I say, out of a flipper-like wing? Penguins are being lifted off their little waddling feet and held aloft as shining examples of how people should lead a decent life. Penguins may be models of upright social behaviour - in a biomechanical sense. But some members of the Christian right in the US are going much further. To them, penguins are not only upright but also the epitome of righteousness: loving, caring parents who form lifelong monogamous relationships. They see the bird's arduous annual migration across the shifting ice floes of the Antarctic as an allegory for the Christian spiritual journey and suggest that the birds should be held up as role models for human behaviour.
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