I suppose in tomorrow's news we'll see an editorial arguing that a society that lets a woman marry a dolphin can't really refuse gays the marriages that they want.
Joel | 12.30.05 - 3:56 pm | #

The trouble with cetaceans is that they always marry beneath themselves.
Hunk Hondo | 12.30.05 - 4:04 pm | #

I've got to say, Mark, your tagline is PERFECT!

I expect that this is more of a "holy union" ceremony of the kind that gays have been able to get from sympathetic Methodist and Episcopalian ministers for decades. I doubt seriously that it was a legal marriage. So I don't think there's much legal traction to get from this bizarre event.

It seems to me that her weirdness is crazy, but even more crazy is the willingness of the resort to cater to it. They seem not to have given any consideration to the difficult conversations various parents are going to have to have with their children after this.
Ron Belgau | 12.30.05 - 4:08 pm | #

She has clearly flippered out.
Chad | Homepage | 12.30.05 - 5:05 pm | #

Oddly enough, a mystery novel by Sharyn McCrumb contained a similar subplot - in this case a woman who attempts to have a, well, "relationship" with a dolphin. She comes to a bad end...Perhaps we should send this woman a warning about what might happen if she pursues this too far?

I believe the book was called, *If I'd killed him when I met him* from "If I'd killed him when I met him, I'd be out of jail now" - I think it may have been a country song. The book is a kind of satire on some of the sillier elements of modern feminism.
alias clio | 12.30.05 - 5:26 pm | #

If practically the first words out of your mouth after getting married are, "I am not a pervert," then that means yes, you are a pervert.
Sean P. Dailey | Homepage | 12.30.05 - 5:58 pm | #

I wonder how animal-rights activists feel about this one...
Dave Pawlak | Homepage | 12.30.05 - 6:17 pm | #

I wonder how animal-rights activists feel about this one...

Well, I assume they'd be for it since dolphins are sentient according to the tv show Seaquest DSV and therefore it would be bigotry to forbid them to marry as they choose.
Publius | Homepage | 12.30.05 - 7:33 pm | #

Gay? I wish! If I were gay they'd be no problem! No, what I have is a romantic abnormality, one so unbelievable that it must be hidden from the public at all cost. You see...
paul | Homepage | 12.30.05 - 7:34 pm | #

Why is a male dolphin named Cindy? That's what I want to know.
Peter | 12.30.05 - 8:02 pm | #

This has got to be a spoof. Didn't you see that bit at the end about the newlyweds going bowling?
Annalucia | 12.30.05 - 8:48 pm | #

Freak.
Eliz... | 12.30.05 - 10:30 pm | #

I wonder who was best man . . .?

Flipper?
Marion (Mael Muire) | 12.30.05 - 10:51 pm | #

Being a millionaire means surrounding yourself with people who will never tell you you are a narcissistic git.

Another one for the "Quoteable Quotes" file.
Dennis_Mahon | Homepage | 12.30.05 - 11:23 pm | #

"Why is a male dolphin named Cindy?"

You see, Cindy was born a female dolphin, but a few years ago she underwent the necessary procedure to become a male dolphin. She kept the name as a kind of protest against all forms of gender differentiation. Hence, her/his marriage to Tendler is not, strictly speaking, a case of lesbian bestiality, but merely a case of, er, "normal" bestiality.
Mark Gordon | Homepage | 12.31.05 - 1:35 pm | #

I wonder when the first human-plant marriage will be? It would be so incredibly trendy. lots of taboos and barriers broken then. sic transit ...
Dunmoose | 12.31.05 - 2:17 pm | #

"And which plant?", he said in a not really surprising fit of evil.
Ed the Roman | 12.31.05 - 5:04 pm | #

I knew things would come to this but I kinda had an idea that the human/animal weddings wouldn't start until I was old or gone. The future came sooner than I thought.
dymphna | Homepage | 12.31.05 - 7:37 pm | #

Fungie the Dingle dolphin (Co. Kerry, Republic of Ireland) had better watch out! Nobody should mention this to our Equality Agency (currently campaigning to remove the exemption which protects religious groups/agencies from being sued for "discriminating" against gays) or our Supreme Court (who "found" that a constitutional amendment enacted 9 years previously to prohibit abortion actually permitted it). It'll give them ideas...
hibernicus | 01.01.06 - 10:21 am | #