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If you thought Virginia was weird, it's easier to pass a law through Montana's state legislature that allows citizens to eat their own roadkill than it is to strike down a law that made gay sex a felony punishable with up to 10 years in jail and a $50,000 fine. The latter is slated to happen in a House vote Wednesday, even though three-dozen Montana Republicans still don't want to see the (unconstitutional) law taken off the books. Montana's "House voted 64-36 to endorse Senate Bill 107, one day after House members narrowly voted to remove it from the House Judiciary Committee," reports the Billings Gazette's Mike Dennison. The state Senate passed the bill months ago, but it "became stuck in the House Judiciary Committee when the Republican-controlled panel tabled it," according to the AP.
Update, 4:34 p.m. Eastern: SB-107 has passed and snagged a Republican supporter, reports John S. Adams of The Great Falls Tribune:
SB107 pickes up another supporter, passes on third reading 65-33. Bill moves on to governor. #mtleg #LGBT
— John S.Adams (@TribLowdown) April 10, 2013
To put that strong Republican resistance into some perspective, Montana's House Bill 247, which would allow Montanans to eat their roadkill, passed the House in February on its second reading (like SB 107) and its third readings by votes of 99-1 and 95-3, respectively. SB 107 would finally change the definition of "deviate sexual relations" in the state—a full 16 years after the state Supreme Court ruled that the language criminalizing gay sex as unconstitutional—and no longer lump in gay sex as the same kind of crime as having sex with an animal. Here's the passage that's still giving 36 of the 61 Republicans in the House some problems: