Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Four state legislators in Massachusetts have introduced a bill that would soften the crime of bestiality, a move pro-family activists say is a natural progression of the state's legalizing same-sex marriage.

[…] A story in Boston's Weekly Dig describes the legislation, entitled "An Act Relative to Archaic Crimes."

"The bill would strike down several sections of the current penal code criminalizing adultery, fornication and the advertisement of abortion," the reported stated. "It also repeals what appears to be a sodomy statute forbidding 'abominable and detestable crime against nature, either with mankind or with a beast.'

(Whole article here.)

How can anybody find this remotely surprising after everything else that’s gone down in the USA these days? In the immortal words of Ivan Karamazov, “If there is no God, then everything is permitted.”[1] Can state-mandated benefits for non-human partners be far behind? The progressive growth of degeneracy is pretty clear; it's only the rate that is astounding.

[1] Apparently, despite much argument to the contrary, Dostoevsky did write this. See this reference.