[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

Exactly, in San Francisco, I understand, you cannot "own" your pet, you are simply a pet guardian (or something like that).

In these liberals' minds, animals have more rights than innocent, helpless human beings.

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It seems there is always a tug on society to pull us back into animal- and nature-worship, as pagans did (and do) without the benefit of Judeo-Christian truths. It's like there is a natural tendency---seen in the Bible, seen in Islam, seen in atheism, seen in the Democratic party---to return to worship of animals and to devalue human life and discount its meaning. I am thinking of: the scene Moses sees when he comes down with the 10 Commandments; or, the reversion of the boys in "The Lord Of The Flies" to feral heathens; or most any PETA statement or function.