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Certain religious sects have documented bestiality in their teachings and the Christian Bible points to several passages in which the act is a crime and that the punishment for such a crime is stoning of both the human and the animal. I will not go into a debate on religion as I have my ideas, theories, and understanding of the reasons why such things are documented but I will say this:
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There's a strong point of view that those laws were in order to ban behaviours that the native tribes in Canaan performed during idol worship, such as ritual sex of many sorts. It can then be interpreted more as a ban on idol worship than on the act itself.