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Article: Kangaroo courting
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- The Spectator
- Article date:
- November 30, 2002
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Labour is downgrading the crime of bestiality after lobbying by zoosexuals, reveals Ross Clark
WHEN David Blunkett stood up last week to launch his blueprint on sexual morality, `Protecting the Public', and said grandly, `The law on sex offences is widely recognised as archaic, incoherent and discriminatory,' few might have imagined that one of those with reason to celebrate would be the unfortunate soul jailed in April for buggering a goat beside a railway line near Hull.
Bestiality is being downgraded as a crime, even though a quick reading of `Protecting the Public' would seem to indicate otherwise.
Clause 79 reads as if the prohibition of coupling with animals had never occurred to ...