Not really, but it got your attention.
Article on gay marriage and domestic violence
Basically the wording of domestic violence laws (making hitting your girlfriend/wife/boyfriend/husband punishable as a distinct felony) unteneble unless you're married. The new laws banning gay marriage do so by making government unable to recognize any partnership but marriage as a legal entity. This means that your live-in girlfriend is not protected by domestic violence laws because Ace and Gary down the street are in a consensual relationship. Talk about the law of unintended consequences!
But then again the cynic in me thinks that the whole fisaco started as a way for conservatives to reduce the power of domestic violence laws as a way of returning to the good old biblical days where you
basically owned your wife.
Article on gay marriage and domestic violence
Basically the wording of domestic violence laws (making hitting your girlfriend/wife/boyfriend/husband punishable as a distinct felony) unteneble unless you're married. The new laws banning gay marriage do so by making government unable to recognize any partnership but marriage as a legal entity. This means that your live-in girlfriend is not protected by domestic violence laws because Ace and Gary down the street are in a consensual relationship. Talk about the law of unintended consequences!
But then again the cynic in me thinks that the whole fisaco started as a way for conservatives to reduce the power of domestic violence laws as a way of returning to the good old biblical days where you
basically owned your wife.
