Consent is only valid if one is of sound mind to give it. We have a host of ways to gauge this for humans. For example, a 12 year old could verbally consent to sex with a 50 year old, but we consider the child too young to have the sound mind necessary to consent. We do the same for the severely mentally handicapped, or people who are black out drunk.
We have no way to gauge that for animals.
A person cannot help what they are born as, and who or what they are attracted to.
However, i support any sexuality as long as it's between two consenting parties of a legal age where sexual interactions are permitted, if this is too hard for you to understand; Take a seat over there and put on the hat of shame whilst the adults talk.
Congratulations. By feeding the troll you've successfully allowed him to derail the thread.
On topic: Very good news. Hopefully more follow suit sooner rather than later.
I think that it's ridiculous on it's face, but if you dig into the issue you will find that there are actually animals that are prostituted, especially apes, and they are kept in terrible conditions but trained to have sex with humans. Doing the same to a person is illegal. Since we can't really gauge where that line is for animals, it's more complicated than it seems.
Oregon will be next...along with legalizing pot. Think they're both on our November ballot. I say it's about time.
Even then, the issue is mistreatment. Not a lack of consent per se. It's not like humans tend to be terribly concerned with animals do or do not consent to. We neuter them, castrate them, de-bark/de-claw them and slaughter them, all without giving a single fuck what they consent to or not. Yet when bestiality is mentioned, people leap all over the 'informed consent' aspect of things, like it's suddenly a right of theirs we revere.
This isn't even getting into why the perception of sex as an activity that necessitates informed consent isn't one that applies to non-human animals in the first place.