“Instant Karma’s gonna get you
Gonna knock you right on the head“
A judge has ruled that Ohio’s new constitutional ban on same-sex marriage prohibits unmarried people from being able to file domestic violence charges, a decision that has prompted an immediate appeal by prosecutors.
Judges and others across the country have been waiting for a ruling on how Ohio’s ban on same-sex marriage, among the nation’s broadest, would affect the state’s 25-year-old domestic violence law, which previously wasn’t limited to married people.
Wednesday’s ruling by Cuyahoga County common pleas judge Stuart Friedman changed a felony domestic violence charge against Frederick Burk to a misdemeanor assault charge.
Burk, 42, is accused of slapping and pushing his live-in girlfriend during a January argument over a pack of cigarettes.
“Instant Karma’s gonna get you
Gonna knock you off your feet
Better recognize your brothers
Ev’ryone you meet”
I don’t know if this counts as instant Karma.
Excuse me for feeling cynical at 4 am, but it strikes me that this law lets the GOP lash out at *two* groups they love to hate: the GLBT community *and* women.
Good point. If it hadn’t been so late when I posted this, I might have been alert enough to think of it. At the time, it struck me as ironic.
It wasn’t an accident at all. I don’t have a copy of the the law in front of me but I remember quite clearly the last line.
“And unmarried heterosexual couples”
It’s very clear. The line, “And unmarried heterosexual couples” is there for one reason and one reason only and its aimed right at women that choose not to get married.
Get married, stay home, make babies.
You’re either with us or against us.