Buggery

In the beautiful state of South Carolina a man has been found guilty of a disgusting sex act - having sex with a horse. He got THREE YEARS in prison for that. I'm not a proponent of sex with horses. In fact, if I were running for office I would run a platform strictly against horse sex. Not because I don't find horses sexy, but because their large, strange eyes can't choose their sexual partners (free will and all that).

What I find weird and disconcerting about the whole story though wasn't that a man got caught having sex with a horse (for the second time), but that he was found guilty of "buggery."

Apparently the definition of buggery is "sodomy." So the man was sentenced and found guilty of sodomy and NOT animal cruelty, which means that sodomy is still illegal in South Carolina? Wow. OK.

Also, does that mean that when someone calls you a "little bugger" (with or with out an English accent) that they are actually calling you a "sodomite?" Which is kind of like calling something lame the word "gay." These moments of awakening was like when I realized what "cotton picking minute" really meant. Only instead of slavery its about anal sex.

So basically in S.C. you can get three years hard time not for animal cruelty, but instead for the act of sodomy. Good job, South Carolina. So if I run across the street to break into a house, do I get arrested for jaywalking or burglary?