Canada’s top court rules all non-penetrative sex acts involving animals are legal
Canada’s Supreme Court has acquitted a British Columbia man of bestiality charges as under the country’s laws a sexual act with an animal can be found unlawful only in the case of it involving penetration.
The man, known only by initials DLW convicted of 13 counts of sexually assaulting his two stepdaughters over a 10-year period has successfully challenged a separate count of bestiality which, as it turns out, requires penetration for it to have been illegal.
The decision that was supported by all but one of the justices acquitted the man of forcing the family dog to take part in the sexual abuse of his stepdaughters, Reuters reported.
“Although bestiality was often subsumed in terms such as sodomy or buggery, penetration was the essence – ‘the defining act’ – of the offence,” the court said, according to the Independent.
The court didn’t have the power to rule otherwise since all of the previous decisions regarding bestiality have always involved penetration which is an obligatory aspect in such cases, Justice Thomas Cromwell, writing on behalf of all judges, said.
“Parliament adopted that term [bestiality] without adding a definition of it, and the legislative history and evolution of the relevant provisions show no intent to depart from the well-understood legal meaning of the term.”
“Any expansion of criminal liability for this offense is within parliament’s exclusive domain,” Cromwell concluded.
DLW is serving a 16-year prison sentence and the bestiality conviction was brought before the court on appeal. According to the materials in the case, DLW used peanut butter to make the dog lick the genitals of his victims while he filmed the act. He tried to force the dog to have intercourse with the stepdaughters, but didn’t succeed.
The controversial ruling should encourage lawmakers to reconsider the “outdated” 1954 law as it puts animals in Canada in danger, a representative for Animal Justice said.
“As of today, Canadian law gives animal abusers license to use animals for their own sexual gratification. This is completely unacceptable, contrary to societal expectations, and cannot be allowed to continue,” executive director of Animal Justice, Camille Labchuk, told the Independent in an emailed statement.
I saw this coming so I am not surprised. Soon, it will be legal to do whatever you want to do with animals. Libertines don’t subscribe to moral notions; they prefer to subscribe to humane notions and there is a massive difference.
For as long as we can remember, societal moral protocols, primarily derived from religion, defined and regulated that which was permissible and that which wasn’t permissible. Over the years, the influence of religion has dwindled and as such, a greater number law makers are no longer looking for religious inspirations.
The non-religious look at things through humane lenses and often times, they regard moral clauses as being moribund references that function as albatrosses. If the moribund thinking was still en vogue, beastiality would have been 100% illegal.
Get [use] to it folks, this is a new age–an age of boundary pushing…
:maho
Good Day Met,Metters,Peepers nd Others…
Leviticus 18 vs 23
King James Bible
“Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down there to: it is confusion.”
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:peluk :2thumbup amen amen
Seet de Marvin….das why dem fling yu outa Sumfest. All di Bible a banish yu too.
:hammer u too bad
LAWD WE KNOW DEM LOVE ANIMALS BUT NOOOOO MAN.AS LONG AS U NO PENETRATE DEM SO DEM CAN PENE YOU??? A WA DIS, ITS NOT FUNNY SPEAKS A LOT FOR SOME LAWMAKERS
This is disgusting!!!!!!! 100% filth!!!!!!
Soon, those who don’t support beastiality will be be called bigots–LOL!
What a world though! I knew this was coming though
Met, me too. Justifying gay marriage opened the gate for all of this…
Not the marriage alone..justifying that abnormal is normal.There is no excuse to be born a woman and then say u were a man born in the wrong body..that is abnormal. So now u have these perverts that will come and justify their so called sexual orientation
O’God, yes… Those transgenders, my God, is there a more confused group of people? A so-called straight man decided to change his sex, began dating men only to come out that the new she is lesbian and went back to dating women.
The minds are getting sicker by the day
A long time some a Dem white woman yah a used dogs fi lick Dem pussc…disgusting…Some a Dem set it’s better to have sex with animals because they can’t breed u.
Not to mention that Boeing engineer who died after getting rammed by a horse. There are some really disgusting people out there and I will never ever support these types of lifestyles…
From wwhat I understand annuh really legalize it legalize. Di nasty bway jus find a loop-hole inna the law. Maybe the law was written years ago when oral sex never common so at the time the lawmakers probably word it n say “it is illegal to penetrate an animal, not knowing dat in the future oral sex woulda come in n ppl take it to the animal dem too”
The law was written in 1954. It is not so unusual for lawyers to reference prior court decisions to justify arguments that they have in front of the court. Hence, this ruling is now de facto law–until the law itself is revised.
Yup knew it was coming, watch out for incest it coming soon soon soon