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No cockfighting in Oklahoma, the Supreme Court says.
The justices turned down an appeal today from cockfighting supporters, who have lost at the ballot box and in courts.
Oklahoma voters in 2002 approved a ban on the blood sport, in which knives or cutting barbs are attached to roosters, which usually fight to the death.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court upheld voters' decision earlier this year, prompting the appeal to the Supreme Court. Justices rejected it without comment.
This may be one of the last things the Supreme Court does that I end up agreeing with. Cockfighting - hilarious name aside - is pretty sick. I have no special love for chickens, except when made into delicious buffalo wings, but it came as a surprise to hear that someone actually argued that having dumb birds kills each other for gambling purposes should be legal.
Such as...
Attorney Larry Oliver, in filings at the court, said that the law was so vague that people could be arrested for watching blue jays fight in their back yard.
"All birds fight by nature," he wrote. "This Oklahoma statute was drafted by radical animal rights people who exacted a constitutional overkill in their pursuit to ban everything associated with cockfighting."
Because only a radical animal rights person would think the "sport" of cockfighting could be enjoyed by anyone other than trepanned hillbillies, I guess.
When voters approved the anti-cockfighting law, Oklahoma was one of three states that permitted the sport. Louisiana and New Mexico still allow it.
Finally, something to rub in the face of my Sooner friends.
Not that it won't be trumped by "0-for-5" and Texas' stunning teen pregnancy rate.
Sherry Todd, an assistant attorney general in Oklahoma, told justices: "The right to conduct cockfights is not a fundamental right. In fact, the federal government and 48 states have enacted some form of law prohibiting cockfighting."
Todd also said that the law "does not criminalize the enjoyment and/or observation of the natural activities of birds in their natural habitat."
Meaning the Discovery Channel's "Birds Gone Wild" series is safe for another season.
Big 'Lar Oliver is right, ALL birds fight, and some accidentally have razor blades strapped to their claws and then are mistakenly put in tiny pens with crowds of screaming people around betting on it. It just happens, so get used to it.
When will this cock on cock violence end?! Can't we all just get along?!
When cocks are outlawed, only outlaws will have cocks.