Inter-species Marriage Celebrated by Gay Activists
January 5th, 2006 at 2:01 pm by Preston Taylor HolmesIn the next logical step forward for traditional marriage, lovelorn Brit Sharon Tendler recently married Cindy, a 35-year-old dolphin.
In a modest ceremony at Dolphin Reef in the southern Israeli port of Eilat, Tendler, a 41-year-old British citizen, apparently became the world’s first person to “marry” a dolphin.
Dressed in a white dress, a veil and pink flowers in her hair, Tendler got down on one knee on the dock and gave Cindy a kiss. And a piece of herring.
“It’s not a perverted thing. I do love this dolphin. He’s the love of my life,” she said Saturday, upon her return to London.
When asked in the past if she had a boyfriend, she would always reply, “No. I’m going to end up with Cindy.” On Wednesday, she made it official, sort of. While she acknowledged the “wedding” had no legal bearing she did say it reflected her deep feelings toward the bottlenosed, 35-year-old object of her affection.
“It’s not a bad thing. It just something that we did because I love him, but not in the way that you love a man. It’s just a pure love that I have for this animal,” she said.
She also mentioned, off the record, that there are more uses for a bottlenose than snarfing down herring.
January 5th, 2006 at 3:03 pm
[...] Preston from over a Six Meat Buffet has a very disturbing post this afternoon. It deals with a “interspecies marriage” between a British citizen and a 35 year old bottle nose dolphin named Cindy. Of course the marriage holds NO legal status, but this is one of those things that the mere appearance looks bad. Weather it is legal, supported, popular or not the fact that some even consider that such a thing could exist is disturbing. Full Post Here [...]
January 5th, 2006 at 11:34 pm
Maureen Dowd says men aren’t necessary, so I guess at least one more agrees with her.
January 6th, 2006 at 12:48 am
I’ve heard of dolphin-safe tuna, but a tuna-safe dolphin?!
January 6th, 2006 at 3:00 am
WTF………….with a nose of a…….errr do they even have a nose…………who needs a man. Imagine……….someting that bit to grind on
January 6th, 2006 at 9:27 am
Cindi, you are one sick freak.
P.S. What’s your phone number?
January 6th, 2006 at 11:56 am
Why do you claim that the wedding was “celebrated by gay activists”? There is nothing in the article about gay activists. Heck, Sharon isn’t even gay– despite the name “Cindy”, the dolphin is actually a male.
January 6th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
Rob, that’s called a sarcastic – or snarky – headline, implying that gay activists would view such a wedding as another victory for their agenda. That is obviously absurd, but I bet some people snickered at it. Except for literalists such as yourself who may have mistaken this blog for a mainstream news outlet.
January 6th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
Even more disturbing is that Cindy is a transgendered Dolphin, which is pushing the aquatic envelope. His bride refers to Cindy with the male pronoun.
Consider holiday meals with all the cousins, too. Seals, Narwhals, all kinds of whales, Walri. This is troubling in the extreme. The fish-consumption alone would empty fifteen Japanese trawlers in one sitting. Damn these people.
January 6th, 2006 at 1:30 pm
where’s PETA in all this? isn’t this some kind of cruelty to animals? it’s not like cindy was able to give a nay or yay in the matter. and what about the ridicule from other dolphins? did she think of that when she married him? geez, some humans are so selfish.
January 6th, 2006 at 1:32 pm
Ah, you were trying to be funny. My bad; I thought you had misread the article.
January 6th, 2006 at 4:14 pm
This isn’t a mainstream news outlet?