As ThinkProgress recently noted, the Florida legislature has been trying to close a “loophole” that made it one “of only a dozen or so states that don’t have a law against having sex with animals.” While the state has been unable to pass a bestiality law, it has had no problem finding time to make sure it’s illegal to get married or adopt a child if you’re gay. Now, the legislative session has ended, and lawmakers have once again failed to outlaw sex with animals. This time, they were thwarted by fertilizer:
The Senate passed the measure twice, but it did not earn so much as a hearing in the House until this session, when [House Majority Leader Adam] Hasner [R] proposed a compromise. The ban was tucked into an omnibus agriculture bill, which passed in the House.
But the Senate passed a different agriculture bill on the last day of the session that would have allowed some gun owners to store their guns in their vehicles in previously exempted locations. The bill also added a fertilizer provision that would make it easier for localities to approve strict ordinances. With mere hours left before the session’s close, the House refused to take up the gun and fertilizer language, effectively slaying the agriculture bill.
“Lawmakers said they did not want to be accused of wasting time addressing a rare crime” and debate what one legislator described as a “yucky” subject in public meetings.
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