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Written by Scott Keyes
If you believe that the United States should legalize dogfighting because we allow humans to fight, fear not. You’ve got an ally in the United States Congress.
During a tele-townhall late last week, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) fielded a question about his opposition to animal rights and recently introduced legislation that would undermine local standards preventing animal torture. “It’s wrong to rate animals above human beings,” he told the questioner. To make his point, King argued that “there’s something wrong” for society to make it a “federal crime to watch animals fight” but “it’s not a federal crime to induce somebody to watch people fighting.”
KING: When the legislation that passed in the farm bill that says that it’s a federal crime to watch animals fight or to induce someone else to watch an animal fight but it’s not a federal crime to induce somebody to watch people fighting, there’s something wrong with the priorities of people that think like that.
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King did not say whether it was also hypocritical that society allows people to get married yet not animals.
Of course, there is a very good reason we ban dogfighting and other similar forms of cruelty: animals don’t have a choice in the matter. Manny Pacquiao chooses to step into the ring. Michael Vick’s dogs did not. Similarly, when a human boxer loses a fight, he is not ritually executed after the fight. The same is not always true in dogfighting.
Unfortunately, King is a longtime advocate for legalizing dogfighting, cockfighting, and other forms of animal torture. Most recently, he fought legislation that would make it illegal to bring a child to an animal fight. He has also set aside his love for states’ rights in order to forbid localities from enacting anti-animal torture standards.
This post was originally published by ThinkProgress.
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+ add your ownDisgusting - why doesn't he relocate to Greece or China.....?
Hard to believe the good citizens of Iowa have elected this dismal imitation of a human. As a embarrassed citizen of Wisconsin, I'm beginning to wonder why the midwest has become a repository of crazy Republicans.
Its probably not ignorance motivating his e4ndorsemen of animal fighting.. Its called organized crime.
What a moron! People make the choice to fight, animals are forced into it!
He's Republican . He's from Iowa . Explains all.
I can't believe he has a job. At all. Any where. Much less doing what he does. How do people this crazy, ignorant and stupid get a position like this??? Frightful.
Politicians are obviously an Inferior Form of Life--and should be treated as such.
Steve King is beyond stupid. He needs to lose his job and the people need to get him out of there. People have free will to do what they want but these animals don't and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. Steve King should be ashamed of himself for saying something that even a child wouldn't say anything that stupid. Get him out of there and many others like him. We need a different government run by people that are not arrogant, amoral, unethical, stupid and can be bought. Wow, I think I covered 98% of the government and lawmakers. Steve King, what goes around comes around.
Wow you Americans have people like this running your country, your goverment must be so pleased with him. Maybe you should put him in a cage with a few dogs.
What idiots vote for people like this
I think we should put Steve King in a ring to fight for his life. I think he should be put in jail, too.
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