Sexual morality trumps animal protection

Erik Marcus sent in an update on the “is it still bestiality if the animal is dead?” case we reported on a while back. If you recall, Bryan James Hathaway was arrested for having sex with a dead deer on the side of the road, but his lawyer argued that because the deer was dead, it wasn’t a crime. The judge has denied the motion for dismissal, stating that Wisconsin’s laws deal more with sexual morality rather than animal protection, so the status of the deer was irrelevant. Depending on how that decision went down, it could have led to some interesting discussions about what exactly is appropriate when dealing with dead animal flesh (people do a lot of twisted stuff with animals for pleasure, although generally it happens at the dinner table). As it is, this doesn’t even change things when it comes to general morality, just the sexual kind, and it certainly doesn’t do anything good for animal protection. Link.