Question: If your elected officials fail basic taxonomy, promote anti-science curriculum, and consistently attempt to undermine the fundamental unpinning of all biology, what happens when they start trying to legislate from this flawed view of reality?
The answer is this poorly-worded miasma of a law recently passed in Florida, which presumably was designed to prevent bestiality and promote animal welfare, but which has actually made it illegal, effective October 1, 2011, for anyone to have sex in Florida.
The nub, if you can call it that, is Florida legislators use the word "animal" which, to a college sophomore somewhere who between bong hits remembered human beings are also animals, means Floridians are total rubes!
Well, according to this "logic" so are the good folks in Massachusetts who have made it a crime to watch "animals" fight. (Sorry about that all you boxing and hockey fans!) Add to the list as well Rhode Island, Washington, Illinois, Minnesota, California, and basically anywhere else that is considered left of the American center.
I cannot tell if this represents simple though damn thorough ignorance of law, or if it is part of a campaign to "normalize" bestiality. I guess I could be setting up a false dichomoty here. No reason it cannot be both.
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