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A small group of men who engage in sexual activity with their pets gathered on Berlin's Potsdamer Platz earlier this year to protest a law ratified by the upper house of parliament, the Bundesrat, that bans bestiality. The lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, passed the legislation late last year as part of a comprehensive animal protection act that brings Germany in line with a European Union directive. German zoophiles now face fines of up to €25,000 for all forms of sex with animals. One of the protesters told the German newsmagazine The Local that a lobby group called ZETA...

CNSNews.com) – (Updated) The Senate on Thursday evening voted 93-7 to approve a defense authorization bill that includes a provision which not only repeals the military law on sodomy, it also repeals the military ban on sex with animals--or bestiality. On Nov. 15, the Senate Armed Services Committee had unanimously approved S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a provision to repeal Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). Article 125 of the UCMJ makes it illegal to engage in both sodomy with humans and sex with animals. It states: "(a) Any person subject to...

Traditional Values Coalition Opinion Editorial For Publication On Or After Tuesday, August 6, 2002 Illinois Lawmakers Criminalize  Sexual Assault Against Animals By Rev. Louis P. Sheldon Chairman, Traditional Values Coalition Washington, DC – Princeton University’s resident “ethicist” Peter Singer must be greatly alarmed by the action recently taken by the Illinois state legislature. Illinois lawmakers just passed a law making it a felony offense for a human to sexually assault an animal. The legislation was signed into law in late July by Governor George Ryan.  Peter Singer is an animal rights activist and advocate of infanticide for human babies. While...