By Jan Dahinten Friday, January 28, 2005; 2:13 AM
SINGAPORE, Jan 28 - SpongeBob SquarePants, the wacky cartoon character who sparked a gay alert warning by U.S. Christian conservative groups, is neither gay nor straight.
He is asexual, says his creator. ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43479-2005Jan28.html>
[If the fundies are upset by SpongeBob's amorous practices, wait til they get wind of angler fish:]
... Because angler fish are so sparsely populated throughout the vast millions of cubic miles of ocean, chance mating encounters between males and females would be unlikely. In fact, when deep-sea anglers were first brought up in trawls they puzzled scientists because they were all females. Then someone noticed small "growths" on the female that turned out to be males. When a tiny male meets a female he bits into her flesh and literally fuses with her body. Like the linking together of web sites on the Internet, the two blood supplies also fuse together so that the male obtains nutrients and oxygen from the female. Without any need for most of his organ systems, such as eyes and digestive organs, the male's body degenerates into essentially a pair of sperm-producing testicles. Thus the female essentially becomes a hermaphrodite with up to six or more of these tiny male parasites attached to various parts of her body....
<http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0701.htm#Angler>
It's a pity the fundies don't share God's wacky sense of humor.
Carl