Does "Moo" Count As Consent?

Before I get to the actual article to which the title refers, let me first put in a plug for MoveAmericaForward.  You think your week was rough? 

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And now, just because I like to make the gay rights types squirm, the title article:

Welcome to the Slippery Slope

You know, with gay marriage going on, and in the recent past, liberals kept telling us there is no such thing as the "slippery slope" where granting gays the right to marry would lead to things like people marrying animals.  "That's just so sick no one would accept that."

Oh really?

Well, why don't we ask Frank Kameny, a hero to the homosexual community who was integral in pressuring the American Psychiatric Association to reclassify same-sex activities as "normal?"  He wrote, to a pro-family organization, that he believes bestiality is fine, "as long as the animal doesn't mind."  Again, I wonder if "moo" would count as consent.

What else does he say?

"Absolutely indisputably a central part of the very definition of Americanism is the guarantee, found in the Declaration of Independence, as not merely a Right, but as an Inalienable Right, of the 'Pursuit of Happiness,'" he wrote. "If something which someone arbitrarily defines as a 'sexual perversion' provides happiness for consenting adult participants, then its enjoyment is enshrined in basic Americanism."

So, having sex with an animal is an "inalienable right," is it?  A man who wants to boink his sheep has a Constitutional right to do so? 

"Bestiality is not my thing … But it seems to be a harmless foible or idiosyncrasy of some people. So, as long as the animal doesn't mind (and the animal rarely does), I don't mind, and I don't see why anyone else should."

Wow, so Kameny has actually interviewed animals to see if they mind some guy getting his jollies with them?  Has he actually stood there while the act was in session and determined whether animals in general mind or not?  Just where is he getting his data to state that animals rarely mind?  Talk about making a statement that leads to a lot of questions...

But, since a "normal," "open-minded," "tolerant," and "progressive" liberal homosexual hero thinks that "dirty deeds done with sheep" is a right we should all be able to enjoy if we so choose, what's the difference between that and actually being allowed to marry said animal?

A marriage of "Party A" and "Party B," indeed.

And no, the gay right guys don't need to get their pretty little panties in a bunch.  I hardly think all homosexuals would want to have sex with animals or would condone it.  My point is that if such a "hero" of the gay community considers sex with animals a right, what is to say that people wouldn't demand the same kind of right to marry the animal they have been having sex with? 

And worse yet, on what basis would you be able to say it's not someone's right?  I sincerely doubt gays are going to want to disagree with the man who coined "Gay is Good" or got their behavior listed as "normal" only a few decades ago. 

(Kameny's) letter continued: "If bestiality with consenting animals provides happiness to some people, let them pursue their happiness."

And if people claim that marrying said animals provides happiness?

Get ready for the slide.