Florida fails to outlaw sex with animals...

[cynatnite]

As ThinkProgress recently noted, the Florida legislature has been trying to close a “loophole” that made it one “of only a dozen or so states that don’t have a law against having sex with animals.” While the state has been unable to pass a bestiality law, it has had no problem finding time to make sure it’s illegal to get married or adopt a child if you’re gay. Now, the legislative session has ended, and lawmakers have once again failed to outlaw sex with animals. This time, they were thwarted by fertilizer:

The Senate passed the measure twice, but it did not earn so much as a hearing in the House until this session, when Hasner proposed a compromise. The ban was tucked into an omnibus agriculture bill, which passed in the House.

But the Senate passed a different agriculture bill on the last day of the session that would have allowed some gun owners to store their guns in their vehicles in previously exempted locations. The bill also added a fertilizer provision that would make it easier for localities to approve strict ordinances. With mere hours left before the session’s close, the House refused to take up the gun and fertilizer language, effectively slaying the agriculture bill.

“Lawmakers said they did not want to be accused of wasting time addressing a rare crime” and debate what one legislator described as a “yucky” subject in public meetings.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/07/florida-bestiality-legal/

[Taverner]

1. Those Republicans sure are soft on Man-on-Box Turtle love...

[AnArmyVeteran]

6. I'd hate to see what the mutant concoction of DNA from those 2 species produced...

One thing that is consistent between both the 'right wing' and the 'turtle' species is the sizes of the brains. What if right wingers lived to be 200 years old like some turtles?

[boston bean]

15. they ought to try snappers...

[louis-t]

2. Doesn't federal law prohibit this?

[NoNothing]

5. I don't think so

Why would it?

[louis-t]

8. I guess because it's such an appalling thing

I can't imagine any state having to have a debate on whether it should be illegal or not.

[NoNothing]

11. I guess, I mean it's gross

But so are lots of things people do with each other. I'd put the issue pretty far down on the scale of legislative importance.

[foxfeet]

3. The Repugs need someone to fuck

and many of the non-native snakes perished in the freeze this past winter.

[AnArmyVeteran]

7. Sounds like sex resorts catering to tea bagging rightwingers will start popping up in Florida now...

[Dappleganger]

4. Wasting time is an art form for FL lawmakers.

Personally, I wished they'd just all go home and let the animals take over. At least they know better than to fuck US.

[femrap]

9. From

what I hear....males having sex with their dogs is not all that rare.

And don't blame the messenger.

[aikoaiko]

10. Hey, I AM an animal.

Reverse "Elephant Man" moment.

[madinmaryland]

12. Rick Santorum has moved to Florida??

[ehrnst]

13. Yet it will waste time outlawing the rare act of healthy late term abortions..(nt).

[klook]

14. Alas, Dogland is no more

Would have been a golden opportunity to expand their offerings to the bestiality trade -- Florida's answer to the famous Nevada Mustang Ranch.

[joeybee12]

16. Understandable? It'd be the death knell for Saturday night dates for

the GOP.

[Lochloosa]

17. Whoo Hooooo!

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

Whoops.....:blush:

[pipi_k]

18. Disturbing on a couple of levels...

1. That they didn't outlaw it

and

2. That any state might actually NEED to outlaw it.


:scared: for the animals