Louisiana law to ban sex with animals wins Senate vote 25 - 10

[whopis01]

Source: WWL first news

The state Senate has approved a bill designed to make it clear that bestiality is illegal in Louisiana.

A law on the books prohibits "crimes against nature," but it also outlaws so-called sodomy and was ruled unconstitutional in 2003.

New Orleans Senator JP Morrell says it's important that the state has a way to arrest someone for having sex with animals.

He told fellow lawmakers, "God forbid you vote against this bill, good luck explaining it."

Ten senators did vote against it.

Read more: http://www.wwl.com/articles/louisiana-law-ban-sex-animals-wins-senate-vote-25-10

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Every one of them a Republican.

[CincyDem]

1. Well I'm glad that's settled. Been keeping me up at night for ages. n/t

[Amaryllis]

31. Yep. Crucial for our peace of mind. Gotta have your priorities straight.

[bearsfootball516]

2. Lol who the hell voted against it? 😂

[Dave Starsky]

4. Probably afraid of that dreaded "slippery slope".

You know, one day the Libruls make it illegal to fuck animals, the very next day they're taking your guns away.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

64. But vegetables are still ok?

Asking on behalf of a friend.

[FrodosNewPet]

95. Grapefruit is

[Yavin4]

7. 10 Republicans, but we dare not call them "Deplorable"

because that would be insulting. We need to reach out them. Stop being a coastal elite!

[SoCalNative]

101. Republicans

who did not like the fact that it also overturned the state's sodomy laws.

"The measure does also specify that previously illegal forms of "sodomy" are no longer against the law.

"Anal sexual intercourse between two human beings shall not be deemed as a crime," part of the bill states"

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Every time I think mankind is making progress

something like this is still going on.

[aggiesal]

5. Which 10 idiots voted against this bill? ...

Inquiring minds want to know.

Once we find out, neighbors can lock up their cattle and sheep.

Morans!!!

[Julian Englis]

6. The 10 who voted against were all Republicans. n/t

[sandensea]

19. Muskrat love?

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

102. Wouldn't surprise me.

[Yavin4]

8. Here are the "Nays"

NAYS
Mr. President
Allain
Claitor
Donahue
Fannin
Gatti
Long
Mizell
Perry
Riser

[jberryhill]

32. Tough to beat the Long Riser votes

[Egnever]

9. Sorry seems like a waste of taxpayer time to me

Who is going to police that?

Are folks running around town fucking chickens in public or something?

[mpcamb]

10. If they were last week, they'd better not now.

[jberryhill]

33. You'd be surprised

Several years ago in my state, there was a woman who was charging admission for people to watch her engage in certain acts with a dog.

After she was arrested, it was determined there was not a statute which quite applied to what she was doing.

One was enacted pretty quick.

[GeorgeHayduke]

36. And in my state

several years ago a man died after a barnyard interlude with livestock at an underground "fantasy farm". I'll keep the post from becoming NSFW by omitting details other than to say he wasn't trampled.

Some people are just into the donkey show, but

[TalenaGor]

53. Enumclaw

I remember

[GeorgeHayduke]

55. Yessiree.

My grandmother had lived there for years. Who knew?

[TalenaGor]

63. lol

so weird to have something so weird so close to home...

[GeorgeHayduke]

75. The disturbing probability

is that all those 'weird things' most likely occur more often than we are aware. And right under our noses.

I built a house in a small deveopment and my partner at the time had a penchant for board games with neighbors. So, I went, unwillingly just to appease. We ended-up spending too much time at this girls house: http://amp.theolympian.com/news/local/article25236901.html

Mmmyeah. 😐

[TalenaGor]

79. OO

Wow

[lunasun]

86. Also her father was an ultra conservative john bircher politician. She was mentioned in Wrapped in

the flag book

[GeorgeHayduke]

92. Yup. She was really off.

Super aggressive and her poor husband was constantly henpecked. My time with them was in 03 or 04 and they always had that news channel on. I would succumb to drinking when we got home after a visit.

[3catwoman3]

37. Bad enough that someone would abuse a dog in that way.

Worse that anyone would wish to watch, and "worser" still that anyone would be willing to pay to watch.

[moriah]

46. Baaaaaah means noooooo!

Seriously, if someone gets caught fucking their livestock, they should be able to be charged.

And I doubt many horses fit in bedrooms, so it could be passerbys that see it.

[Bradical79]

65. A co-worker used to be an officer in rural Ohio

One night he came across two guys double teaming a sheep, or goat (I forget which).

[LompocDem]

80. Must have been a sheep

Goats don't like it very much, or so I've been told.

[LanternWaste]

70. Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran

Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran (June, 2014): “It was fun. It was an adventure, to be out there in the country and seeing what goes on. Picking up pecans — from that to all kinds of indecent things with animals...”

[radical noodle]

76. A couple of years ago

they caught a man near here having sex with a horse (that belonged to someone else). It really does happen. It often isn't their own animals that they're caught with.

[Nevernose]

100. They busted a mortician in Elko for necrophilia

This was in the late 90s. Turns out, Nevada didn’t have a law against it. Because normal people don’t think of that kind of lunacy and politicians generally have more important laws to worry about.

But laws and regulations are rarely made before there a problem. They’re made in response to a problem.

The Nevada legislature passed a law their next session, but the creepy mortician got a misdemeanor for something like “improper disposal of human remains.”

Point is: it looks like Louisiana might actually have a problem with chicken fuckers.

[TNNurse]

11. Wait a minute,

ten people voted against this????

[Julian Englis]

15. No, 10 Repulicans voted against it

[GoneOffShore]

54. So baaaaad. But they only have eyes for ewe.

[smirkymonkey]

68. I know! That's what shocked me.

Republicans. Louisiana - Where men are men, and the sheep are scared.

[unblock]

12. Nobody's business what people do in the privacy of their own goat

[jberryhill]

34. .

[unblock]

38. Curse you jberryhill!! Now I'll never be able to listen to that song the same way!!

[jberryhill]

88. Really?

Until now, what did you think that he and his monkey had to hide?

Struck me as a little odd the first time I heard it. Like, what are he and his monkey up to?

Given that "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?" was also in the White Album, they always struck me together as companion pieces.

[unblock]

91. really?

it's not an actual monkey, it's his pet name for yoko.

honestly, i never heard it any other way.

maybe because my father called my mother that. well, it was shortened to "monk" by the time i was old enough to notice.

[jberryhill]

93. Ah, I didn't know about the nickname

Well, then, I guess John Lennon would have had nothing to hide in Louisiana either way.

[unblock]

94. .

[spike jones]

97. I have always thought the monkey

was a "monkey on his back, as in an addiction or obsession.

[christx30]

96. I would have also accepted

AC/DC’s “Dirty Deeds dome with Sheep”

[LiberalFighter]

13. Unless they have a different definition of animal...

They just made it illegal for anyone to have sex.

[mahina]

57. HA!!

Good catch.

[left-of-center2012]

14. "crimes against nature"

Leave that naughty tree alone !

[procon]

16. Is this a fake problem, or is there something terribly wrong with

the men folk in Louisiana? Seriously, is there a shortage of women in that state? Don't these guys know how to get a girlfriend? Are they mean, ugly, republicans, or just crazy? Is it more basic, like no personal hygiene and no teeth, and bad habits like chewing tobacco, drugs and booze that make them undesirable?

Maybe they don't have money to pay for a "date", but even men without jobs manage to court girls, and there are many other alternatives beside beastiality, so this seems pretty far fetched.

[Hekate]

44. Rural boys get real lonely, way out on those farms. Anyway there was a Deep South lawmaker ...

...several years back who made passing reference to, um, early experiences. It was almost like: "Who among us has not fallen in love with a ewe as a teenage boy?" He just included it in some public remarks, and his local audience apparently let it pass without comment, iirc, but DUers had quite a lot to say.

Seriously though, I think it mostly has to do with lack of availability of actual unrelated girls but great availibility of whole herds of unprotesting farm animals, plus being really horny. One would expect to grow out of it, I guess.

Most of us live in cities these days, and have no frame of reference. I know I sure don't have a frame of reference. Yes, bestiality is considered abnormal and is illegal nearly everywhere. It definitely is aberrant in a city.

Glad Louisiana is catching up.

[Kaleva]

45. Why do you think it's just men that commit bestiality?

You probably never saw the Orange is the New Black episode where a woman briefly considered having a hot date with a dog and a jar of peanut butter.

[smirkymonkey]

69. I know! Don't these men have sisters?

Jeeze!

[procon]

71. With or without teeth? LOL nt

[smirkymonkey]

72. *snort*

I think they prefer them toothless.

[TexasBushwhacker]

74. It's more common than you think

Animals have ended up in shelters that have been abused horribly.

http://m.humanesociety.org/news/press_releases/2017/05/WV-bestiality-shows-need-for-strong-laws-051217.html

[unblock]

17. The law also decriminalized anal sex between two humans

10 republicans decided to go on record *both*:

- that they hate love and freedom and pleasure between consenting adults

And

- that they heartily approve of raping defenseless, non-consenting animals.

[Sancho]

83. If a handful of corn feed results in consenting livestock, is the farmer guilty of pimping?

This is so complicated....

[0rganism]

18. is this a major problem for Louisiana?

if so, i'm glad Louisiana lawmakers are stepping up to handle the grinding epidemic of beast buggery currently sweeping the state, now that all their other pressing problems have been solved

[Blue_Adept]

66. Almost every state has these laws on the books

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_bestiality_in_the_United_States

Be sure to check out the Pro-zoophilia organizations in the United States

[FailureToCommunicate]

20. Tucker's expose is vindicated!

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

21. I can think of one vote against.

[BootinUp]

22. This is like a flame bait bill or something. nt

[crim son]

23. Please don't make DU look stupid to the uninformed reader.

Those ten were didn't vote "no" because they support the right to screw a horse.

[TheSmarterDog]

29. And you know this ... how?

[moriah]

47. Then you're saying they equate screwing the same sex and screwing a horse?

Because that's the only other explanation.

Either still makes those ten idiots. Unless they think adult horses can consent.

[CaptainTruth]

24. Are they aware that human beings are animals?

I'm going to assume they mean non-human animals.

And if they don't realize humans are animals it's probably best of they refrain from the whole sex/breeding thing.

[moriah]

49. Laws often have definition sections, and your assumption is correct.

" (1) 'Animal' means any nonhuman creature, whether alive or dead."

So at least they cover necrobestiality with this, too.

[Hekate]

73. "Necrobestiality"?

[jberryhill]

87. Don't play with your food

[jberryhill]

77. Wait a minute. Whats wrong with the dead ones?

You can have a lot of fun with a slice of bologna.

You can eat them, you can wear them, but you can’t have sex with them.

Like, what if you are having sex in leather?

Or lamb skin condoms?

[Lheurch]

25. To be fair...

They did not vote no, they voted "neigh."

[renate]

26. welcome to DU!

and

[3catwoman3]

39. OMG, that was...

...brilliant!

Welcome aboard.

[mahina]

58. Welcome to DU.

Thanks for the giggle.

[LSFL]

27. Everyone knows...

That the best way to fuck the animals is through environmental deregulation.

[CentralMass]

30. Louisiana where the men are men and the sheep are nervous.

[Sancho]

35. I don't care what they say...

I'm not going to give up yoga with goats!!

[TheDebbieDee]

40. Uhm.... Does a giraffe-shaped dildo count as an animal?

Well, I live in Missouri anyway...

[WhiteTara]

41. Wow. I wonder how those republicons do explain that

to their voters. I am stunned that there is such a problem in Louisiana that they have to make a law, but wow.

[TygrBright]

42. There's just... nothing to say, is there...? n/t

[chelsea0011]

43. Ads for Dems that run against any of the 10 could be interesting in the next election

[Stuart G]

48. I am so happy that the Louisiana state legislature took the time to pass this law..

Now think about it. Is there a need to pass this law?. How often do men have sex with animals?

Yes, it is men who are nuts that do this and very few at that....

...I have heard of no cases where a woman does this.. What is the point?...A man who does this is nuts. Maybe the point of the law was to make it illegal, so the cops could take him to the loony bin..

..................................................................................I don't know nothing........

[moriah]

56. I wish I knew nothing.

Sadly for my now ex, when I was dealing with a breakup by doing deep Google searches on the person ex dumped me for to figure out what she had that I didn't, I learned the answer was "a shitton of crazy".

I didn't disclose any of what I found to him, or contact her/hack anything, but what made me stop abusing her disturbing habit of posting everything about herself online was finding an advertisement for a cam show she published. There were no images left -- the reason Google was able to find it was she accidentally posted from the wrong Yahoo account and immediately terminated use of that adult entertainment persona and deleted what could be -- thank God, because the advertisement was for webcam clown porn allegedly including guest star "Bibi the lesbian cunnilinguist poodle".

So... yes, women apparently at least will do it if they're young and need the money.

[Kaleva]

59. A woman with peanut butter and a dog

You can also google search for articles about women being arrested for bestiality. There are many of them.

[Stuart G]

61. I might be wrong about that ....Aint the first time, won't be the last...

I could have made a "mistake.".....about making mistakes..Is that why they used to put erasers on pencils??
.....do they still do that ????....wait....I am getting the message....Is the eraser anything like the "delete key?"

[mac56]

50. Maybe they misunderstood.

Maybe they thought it was a bill to fund animal husbandry.

[oasis]

85. Lol

[jberryhill]

89. She's not issuing licenses for that either

[dameatball]

51. This is going to annull a lot of marriages.

[Submariner]

52. Great Democratic contender question for Repubs running for re-election

Are you one of the 10 republicans that voted to keep sex with animals in our state legal?

[agueybana79]

60. 10 people voted against this

their names should be plastered on posters EVERYWHERE in Louisiana.

(confirms my basest of stereotypes about the South).

[raccoon]

62. They must not have much to do in that neck of the woods. nt

[Blue_Adept]

67. Once again, I'm glad I'm from MA

Illegal since November 15, 1636 as part of the Plymouth Colony
Illegal since November 1641 as part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Penalty: Maximum of 20 years in prison; judge can order lesser sentence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_bestiality_in_the_United_States

[jberryhill]

78. Cool

Took a while for “burning witches” to get on the list, did it?

[Blue_Adept]

82. Yeah, but at least we weren't screwing animals

Of course, most of that wrapped up around the same time as well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials

"The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, fourteen of them women, and all but one by hanging. Five others (including two infant children) died in prison."

[Throck]

81. I have office co-workers who screw the pooch every day.

Damn slackers.

[Orange Free State]

84. One has to wonder about a State

that has the need to pass specific legislation of this nature. Be careful, Louisiana, soon you may be down at the level of Mississippi and West Virginia. Yuck.

[skypilot]

90. 'The measure does also specify that...

... previously illegal forms of "sodomy" are no longer against the law.'

I think that these idiots are so adamantly opposed to two consenting adults engaging in some form of sexual activity that they disapprove of that they will go on record opposing this law banning sex with animals because it doesn't ALSO ban those sex acts between two (or more) people that they frown upon.

[mahina]

98. Do they realize they just criminalized all sex between human beings too?

Sorry but I haven’t read the thread, will come back eventually. These people are some kind of evidence for their own disbelief of evolution.

[RainCaster]

99. LA- where the 'I love my goat' bumper sticker has a whole different meaning

At least to the GOP