Gays and lesbians can't
adopt in the state of Florida. Transgender people are being
branded as sexual deviants and will likely soon be barred from
using bathrooms appropriate to the sex they identify
with. And now, Florida's state senate agriculture committee has
finally taken a small step into the 21st century and voted
unanimously to charge anyone who has sex with animals with a
third-degree felony, according to the
Miami Herald
.
Florida was one of 16
states with no official law on the books banning
bestiality.
"There's a
tremendous correlation between sexually deviant behavior and
crimes against children and crimes against animals," Sen.
Nan Rich, a Democrat from Sunrise, told the
Miami Herald.
"This is long overdue. These are heinous crimes. And
people belong in jail."
The bill is likely to
pass later this year.