Anti-gay legislation backfires

Check out what happens when people blindly trust and follow the bigots who dominate the religious right movement in America. From Yahoo!News:

An Ohio state appellate court has ruled that the state's 2004 marriage amendment effectively prevents the state from prosecuting domestic violence between unwed couples.

In a decision released Friday, a divided three-judge panel of the Second District Court of Appeals ruled that Ohio's strict constitutional limitations on marriage mean that its domestic violence statutes may not be enforced against a "person living as a spouse."

The majority wrote that the legal status of "person living as a spouse" is unconstitutional in light of the amendment's ban on recognizing a relationship that "intends to approximate the design, qualities, significance or effect of marriage."

And the damage is not limited to Ohio:

While Ohio's amendment has clashed with the wording of the domestic violence law, other state marriage amendments have called into question the ability of public employers to offer domestic partner benefits. Domestic partner-related lawsuits are under way in Michigan, Utah and Ohio.

See, that's what happens when people are deceived by religious zealots who want to establish a theocracy and live "by the Bible" in 21^st century America.

Someday, a domestic violence incident will turn ugly and someone will die. And all because the police couldn't stop the attacker.

But at least gays can't marry. Whew! We're safe now.