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In a poorly-considered move that is sure to follow him like a cloud of BO to the end of his career, Georgia Republican Bill Heath sponsored an amendment that would ban genital piercing for consenting adult women. Consenting. Adult. Women. Heath is neither consenting nor female, so why the hell does he care?

An apparently unsympathetic reporter from Associated Press sent out the following, which — to my great surprise — even appeared on the Christian Right’s news site:

Amendment sponsor Rep. Bill Heath, R-Bremen, was slack-jawed when told after the vote that some adults seek the piercings.

“What? I’ve never seen such a thing,” Heath said. “I, uh, I wouldn’t approve of anyone doing it. I don’t think that’s an appropriate thing to be doing.”

From way out here on the progressive edge of the left coast, it’s easy to laugh at Biblical, repressed, Kentucky-fried perceptions of morality. The attitude in California seems to be “live and let live.” As far as I can tell, significant parts of the Midwest and South feel it necessary to legislate behaviors in order to “protect” society. I don’t understand it.

Well worth reading is Shannon Larratt’s editorial, Bill Heath: American Traitor. Larratt is the editor and publisher of a “full-spectrum body modification publication,” a website that Bill Heath will also try to ban, assuming the Internet isn’t already illegal in Bremen, GA.