Ohio (Gay) Marriage Law Hampers Efforts Against Domestic Abuse

Up2Late

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Tue Apr-05-05 11:53 PM
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Ohio (Gay) Marriage Law Hampers Efforts Against Domestic Abuse

Ohio Marriage Law Hampers Efforts Against Domestic Abuse

by Janet Babin

All Things Considered, April 5, 2005 �

Ohio's Defense of Marriage Act has had an unintended side effect, conflicting with state (Ohio) Domestic Violence laws meant to allow prosecution for abuse that occurs between unmarried partners. Janet Babin of member station WCPN has the story.

Click link above to goto Audio Link

If anyone in Ohio has a Newspaper account of this, please post it, I have only found it on NPR

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w4rma

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Wed Apr-06-05 12:10 AM
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1. The same folks who hate gays are also sympathetic towards wife beating

Edited on Wed Apr-06-05 12:11 AM by w4rma

so this doesn't surprise me one bit.

This was probably intentional, imho. I don't see how this newspaper can definatively say that this was unintentional or "unintended". The author can't read minds.

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Wed Apr-06-05 12:40 AM
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2. I can't say for sure, but it sounds like a very Ill-conceived Law...

...It was a Law Student that figured out the Serious flaw with this Law.

Ohio, for future reference, do NOT write discrimination INTO your laws or State Constitution, It's probable Unconstitutional.:think:

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Mnemosyne

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Wed Apr-06-05 07:34 AM
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4. Constitution? What's that? Sounds familiar, like The Bill of Rights.

Sure I've heard of it somewhere before. Oh yeah, America. Where is it going?!!

Maybe they'll put in the old "rule of thumb" provision for gays. You can't beat your partner with anything larger than your thumb. It worked for the straight men for years!!

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lcooksey

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Wed Apr-06-05 06:37 AM
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3. Voters were warned this would happen

One tactic the pro-marriage folks used against the bill was pointing out that it was so broad that it would affect unmarried heterosexual couples as well as homosexual couples. "Oh, no it won't," cried the wingnuts. "You just want to scare people!" And then after it passed lawyers started using it to fight domestic abuse charges.

Here is link to Ohio legislature trying to fix the mess they made:
http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/03/033105ohioBan.htm

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