US Senate defense bill removes military ban on sodomy, beastiality
Image via Wikipedia WASHINGTON, DC , December 12, 2011 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - According to the Pentagon, if a provision in the defense authorization bill repealing a military ban on sodomy and beastiality is passed, beastiality would still remain a prohibited activity based upon a separate, general provision. The measure to remove the bans was included in the Senate version of the defense bill, which passed 93-7 last week. According to USA Today , one Congressional aide reports that it is unlikely to survive this evening’s conference between House and Senate leaders which will reconcile the two competing versions of the legislation. If it does pass, however, Article 125 will be removed from the Uniform Code of Military Justice . The article states: “Any person ... who engages in unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal is guilty of sodomy.” The proposed change has met with public protest from conservative groups, presidential cont