ohio hates gays, loves domestic violence!

From Americablog :

It's Official: OH Gay Marriage Amendment not just about Gays by Joe in DC - 3/24/2005 04:34:00 PM

Well Ohioans, you've been hoodwinked. You thought you were stopping gays from etting married last November when you voted for that amendment. Apparently, you ere all too damn lazy to read the language or listen to the debate. Bottom line: it ffects more than gays according to an Ohio Court.

According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, a judge struck down part of the state's omestic violence law today based on the "gay marriage" amendment:

Ohio voters who approved a constitutional amendment last fall that denied legal ecognition of unmarried and gay couples probably didn't envision the measure being uccessfully used as a defense in domestic violence cases.

But that became a reality Wednesday when Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge tuart Friedman ruled that the amendment, approved by voters as Issue 1, made prt of the state's domestic violence law unconstitutional.

Friedman said that because Ohio's domestic violence law recognizes the relationship between an unmarried offender and victim as one "approximating the significance or effect of marriage," it represents a direct conflict with the amendment's prohibition against such recognition and is thus unenforceable.

It's a matter of time before other Ohio laws are challenged based on this amendment.

The ironic thing here is that gays didn't really lose anything under the amendment. See, gays can't get married anyway. It's those straight Ohioans who voted against their own interests....again. Who knew they'd be supporting domestic violence? Who knows if they also voted to end divorce? We'll see.

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Just goes to show what happens when you let bigotry guide you. It will only get worse and worse until people start to see some reason (which isn't likely under this administration!).