NSFW: Representing the People

In a representative democracy one has to ask what is meant by representative. Do they mean someone who is tasked with the job of speaking for a larger group or someone who is an example of the kinds of people who make up their constituency? Not that the two are mutually exclusive.

If we assume the former and admit that quite often the latter also occurs, what does that say about Florida?

Florida lawmakers consider ban on bestiality

Rich's legislation would target only those who derived or helped others derive "sexual gratification" from an animal, specifying that conventional dog-judging contests and animal-husbandry practices are permissible.

That last provision tripped up Miami Democratic Sen. Larcenia Bullard.

"People are taking these animals as their husbands? What's husbandry?" she asked. Some senators stifled their laughter as Sen. Charlie Dean, an Inverness Republican, explained that husbandry is raising and caring for animals. Bullard didn't get it.

"So that maybe was the reason the lady was so upset about that monkey?" Bullard asked, referring to a Connecticut case where a woman's suburban chimpanzee went mad and was shot.

I've got nothing against sick perverts getting their kicks fucking goats as long as they get the goat's permission. The incident that sparked this controversy does not meet those criteria.

Florida is one of only 16 states that still permit bestiality -- a fact that animal-rights activist and Sen. Nan Rich learned to her horror three years ago when a Panhandle man was suspected of accidentally asphyxiating a family goat that he held by the collar during a sex act.

Unless the goat was really into BDSM, this does not sound like a consensual act. The man should have been brought up on rape charges.

While I make exceptions for the sexually deviant domesticated primate (human) sick bastards to form relationships with other domesticated animals, I have very little tolerance for stupidity. Sen. Bullard should be forced to stick her hand up a goat's ass so she can learn first hand what animal husbandry is all about. There is no romance in it. Not even with a chimp.

Though buying it dinner may help relax it.