Keep the government out of my barnyard!

Michael Medved is doing an hour discussing whether bestiality should be illegal. A Washington state legislator has introduced a bill to prohibit having sex with animals. Medved had a bestiality advocate scheduled as a guest, but he failed to show up for the show.

When the gay rights movement started, I predicted that once you break down the barrier to one sort of deviant behavior, you lose the major argument against other types of altlernate sexuality as well, since one can claim that sex with children, animals, dead bodies, etc. are a personal preference people are born with and can't control. For that matter, does kleptomania excuse theft?

The main objection to such behaviors is that they are abnormal. But if you give up on that, the rest of the case is weakened. You can say that children are not willing participants, but does that apply to animals or corpses?

One of the things that is wrong with sin is that experience has shown that it is degrading, addictive, and has negative consequences. The excuse offered for ignoring Bill Clinton's use of Monica Lewinsky was that it was "just sex," as though it didn't have any social effect. I thought at the time that this argument ignored the harm to society done by adultery. Families are broken up; disease is spread; children lose parents or become alienated from them; murders are committed all because of "just sex." When we open society up to every depraved practice on the grounds that if doesn't hurt anybody else, we find that society becomes a hostile environment for families, children, and