Florida Senate fails basic biology, accidentally outlaws sex.

[kpete]

Florida Senate fails basic biology, accidentally outlaws sex.
By Southern Fried Scientist, on May 11th, 2011

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.

*****An act relating to sexual activities involving animals; creating s. 828.126, F.S.; providing definitions; prohibiting knowing sexual conduct or sexual contact with an animal; prohibiting specified related activities; providing penalties; providing that the act does not apply to certain husbandry, conformation judging, and veterinary practices; providing an effective date.



I have constructed this helpful little graphic for the Florida Legislature to examine:
http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=10369

[EFerrari]

1. LOL

[onethatcares]

2. one thing for certain

the Floriduh legislature fucked us over big time this session.

[FLPanhandle]

3. LOL

Well, I'm close to the border. I guess my wife and I will have to plan our weekends in Alabama. :)

[Mojo_electro]

7. Good for you, ...I'm all the way down in Delray...

...I hope nobody narcs.

[NutmegYankee]

4. It's likely that "animals" is defined in the state code.

Most states clearly define the term to apply to non-humans and add exceptions like fish. Odd but true!

On edit: found it
Title XLVI
CRIMES

Chapter 828
ANIMALS: CRUELTY; SALES; ANIMAL ENTERPRISE PROTECTION

828.02 Definitions.
—In this chapter, and in every law of the state relating to or in any way affecting animals, the word “animal” shall be held to include every living dumb creature; the words “torture,” “torment,” and “cruelty” shall be held to include every act, omission, or neglect whereby unnecessary or unjustifiable pain or suffering is caused, except when done in the interest of medical science, permitted, or allowed to continue when there is reasonable remedy or relief; and the words “owner” and “person” shall be held to include corporations, and the knowledge and acts of agents and employees of corporations in regard to animals transported, owned, employed by or in the custody of a corporation, shall be held to be the knowledge and act of such corporation.

As a funny question though - Does "living dumb creature" mean republicans are animals? :evilgrin:

[CreekDog]

5. Republicans enjoy it more when it's illegal.

:hide:

[Mojo_electro]

8. hey, easy now....

They just have a wide stance is all. :rofl:

[pokerfan]

6. Needs pictures

This is okay:


This is not:


And I love their definitions:
"Sexual contact" means any contact, however slight, between the mouth, sex organ, or anus of a person and the sex organ or anus of an animal, or any penetration, however slight, of any part of the body of the person into the sex organ or anus of an animal, or any penetration of the sex organ or anus of the person into the mouth of the animal, for the purpose of sexual gratification or sexual arousal of the person.
http://gawker.com/5800990/did-florida-accidentally-ban-sex

Whew, I am fully aroused.

[sakabatou]

9. Heheheh