Audio By Carbonatix
With the state finances in disarray, 2009 was not the year for Florida legislators to spend their valuable time passing a law that would make it illegal to have sex with animals. But this year, with the state finances again in disarray, maybe Weston-based Sen. Nan Rich will finally get her wish.
I guess our groundbreaking feature story last August — which inspired a piece of art — did not inspire Rich to abandon her legislation.
I won’t go through all the moral arguments (check out the feature if that’s what you want), but it really is a pointless bill. There are plenty of available laws —
animal abuse, for instance — that can be used to prosecute someone
who’s caught doing the nasty with a pet or farm animal. But the best
idea is to just simply tackle some other pressing state issue. There
are approximately a thousand of them that deserve higher priority than
bestiality.
