La. Senate refuses to protect 'chicken boxing'

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

La. Senate refuses to protect 'chicken boxing'
By MELINDA DESLATTE, Associated Press | April 7, 2014 | Updated: April 7, 2014 7:02pm

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The sport of "chicken boxing" doesn't have many friends in the Louisiana Senate.

Senators refused Monday to protect chicken boxing from Louisiana's ban on cockfighting, despite pleas from their colleague, Sen. Elbert Guillory, R-Opelousas.

Guillory said chicken boxing is similar to human kickboxing, with matches that aren't fought to the death and that involve rubber "gloves" to cover the spurs on a chicken's legs to ensure safety.
"There is no blood. There are no knives. There is no cruelty. And there is no abuse," he said, holding two pairs of chicken boxing gloves.

Guillory's defense of chicken boxing came during debate on a bill by Sen. J.P. Morrell, D-New Orleans, that would close loopholes in Louisiana's cockfighting prohibition. Guillory, who represents an area of rural Louisiana that fought to keep cockfighting legal prior to the 2008 ban, said Morrell's bill was so broad it would ban a legitimate sport between chickens.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/La-Senate-refuses-to-protect-chicken-boxing-5383759.php

[rpannier]

1. Legitimate sport between chickens

I may have to get satellite TV. I guess I'm missing The Rooster Bowl and the National Hen League's Chicken Cup

[pinboy3niner]

2. Chicken boxing is just a gateway to Peep wars

Oh, the Peepmanity!

[alp227]

3. Elbert Guillory? That name sounds familiar.

oh yeah he's the phony Democrat who became Republican (then a Democrat between 207 and 2013) and recorded a video reciting right wing "Democrats were the party of slavery and segregation duhhhh" talking points.