Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
This is the kind of bill that slips through in the rush to sine die. Comedy Central may as well set up a studio in Phoenix. The comedy just writes itself with the Arizona Legislature.
Phoenix New Times did such an excellent job on this story that I have to repost it here — you guys rock! ManBearPig? Not in Arizona! Legislature Passes Embarrassing Bill Outlawing "Human-Animal Hybrids":
Martin Cizmar – Russell Pearce, Jan Brewer, and ManBearPig
The Arizona Legislature finally has tackled the super-cereal business of making sure that the likes of South Park's infamous "ManBearPig" have no place in the Grand Canyon State.
A ManBearPig — as described by "Al Gore" on the show — is half man, half bear, and half pig.
While there may be a minor snafu with the math involved with ManBearPig, creatures similar to the legendary South Park beast are apparently such a problem in Arizona that state lawmakers (you know, the boobs who gave us SB 1070) passed a law making their creation illegal.
That sound you may be hearing right now isn't the roar of a Centaur, it's the rest of the country continuing to LOL at the expense of Arizona.
See, the Arizona Senate passed a bill yesterday that makes it illegal to "intentionally or knowingly create a human-animal hybrid."
SB 1307 makes it a class-six felony to knowingly create such a hybrid during research and class-one misdemeanor to buy or sell a human-animal embryo.
The bill was created by Senator Linda Gray and co-sponsored by the who's-who of the knuckle-dragging Republican legislators in the Arizona Senate, including the architect of SB 1070, Russell Pearce.
We called Senator Gray to find out what mythical planet she thinks she's living on why there's a need for such a bill, but she never got back to us.
The bill passed the Senate with a 16-12 vote and awaits a full vote in the House of Representatives after it was passed in a House panel. [The bill passed the House with a 35-24 vote and has been "transmitted to the Governor."]
To see how your state senator voted on this time-waster, click here.
[To see how your state representative voted on this time-waster, click here.]
In case you were wondering what motivates this kind of stuff, check out this end-times blog "The Final Hour" Fluorescent Cats, Spider Goats And Human/Pig Hybrids. Yes, scientific research is being done on the subjects described in this article, but the author's fantastical conclusions and decrying biblical "abomination" is far from the truth.
We are not going to be growing human/pig hybrids in Missouri as feared by the author any time soon.
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The problem is that this law could well apply to all transgenic research…you know, where we put human genes into lab mice or bacteria so we can study how those genes work without, you know, going all Dr. Mengele on people.