THE NANNY GOAT STATE:

Bestiality Soon to Be Outlawed in Florida (BRIAN HAMACHER, Mar 18, 2009, NBC Miami)

The State's Senate agriculture committee, in a long overdue measure, has voted unanimously to charge anyone who has sex with animals with a third-degree felony.

Amazingly, Florida is one of 16 states that still permits bestiality, despite the obvious harm caused to the victim - in most cases the family pet or farm animal.

"There's a tremendous correlation between sexually deviant behavior and crimes against children and crimes against animals," said Sen. Nan Rich, a Sunrise Democrat, told the Miami Herald. "This is long overdue. These are heinous crimes. And people belong in jail."

Pretty rare these days for Democrats to define deviancy up.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 18, 2009 3:52 PM