Posted on 08/08/2003 5:59:07 PM PDT by Deathmonger
CARROLLTON -- A Chesterfield man was charged Wednesday with sexually abusing a mare in Macoupin County, even as prosecutors in Greene County filed new charges against him of aggravated cruelty to animals.
Horse owners from the two counties attended Wednesday’s preliminary hearing in Greene County Circuit Court for Kevin Eugene McAfee, whose 43rd birthday also was Wednesday. A number of horse owners say they believe McAfee has been sexually abusing their mares oversome 20 years.
Macoupin County State’s Attorney Vince Moreth charged McAfee with one count of sexual conduct with an animal, as well as criminal trespass to property and criminal damage to property.
(Excerpt) Read more at zwire.com ...
What happens between a man and a consenting horse is protected by the Constitution's right to privacy (Article ...uh... anyway...). Oh yes, and please add this group to the list of federally-protected groups that you can't discriminate against in hiring (it's getting such that they can't get jobs as jockeys or stable hands anymore).
Anyone against this is a hate-filled equinephobe.
Sincerely,
Phineas Floob
North American Horse Riders Association
[rimshot]
I guess climbing this ladder qualified as foreplay.
What's sick is to think that this behavior might be normalized by the American Psychological Association within 10 years. And then shrinks who try to help offenders get their head straight will be denegrated and chided. Later, the question will be raised as to whether or not there should simply be an "age of consent" for mares involved in these "relationships." And we will finally "arrive" when a man and his mare are free to "marry." And all the mainline denominations said, "amen."
Professor Peter Singer, a self-professed atheist at Presbyterian-founded Princeton University, gave a speech in McLean, Va., recently in which he declared that:
* Sex with animals is all right if it is consensual. "Your dog or whatever else it is can show you when he or she wants to engage in a certain kind of contact."
* Christianity is a "problem."
* Human beings are not superior to animals – and, therefore, have no right to kill them. "I hope that you don't think that just being a biological member of the species homo sapiens means that you do have a soul and being a member of some other species means they don't."
* Why, if all have souls, is it OK for animals to kill each other but not for humans to kill them? "Animals generally are not making moral choices. Animals are not the same as humans. They don'treflect on what they are doing and think about the alternatives. Humans can."
* He might break the rule on not killing animals if termites are eating up his house, but he would first consider trying to drive away the pests in a non-brutal manner.
* Asked by a woman if it was all right to kill a hunter trying to kill geese, he said he doesn't support violence but he does encourage civil disobedience.
* He modified his previously published view that parents should be able to kill a child up to 28 days after birth. On second thought, he said, "you can't really propose any cutoff date," but the decision should be made "as soon as possible after birth."
* Besides, he says, a chimpanzee has more self-awareness at birth than an infant.
Singer is the author of Animal Liberation and professor of bioethics at Princeton University's Center for Human Values.
Singer's audience was the national Animal Rights 2002 conference whose attendees wore buttons and t-shirts declaring "Milk is Murder;" "Stop Hunting;" "Animal Liberation: Wire Cutters are a terrible thing to Waste;" "Beef, it's what is rotting in your colon," and, with a cow featured in the slogan, "I died for your sins."
How sick...once on the slippery slope, the slide speeds up...
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