{"id":3226,"date":"2005-03-27T17:17:23","date_gmt":"2005-03-28T01:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/03\/27\/its-only-domestic-violence-if-youre-married\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T10:58:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T18:58:40","slug":"its-only-domestic-violence-if-youre-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/03\/27\/its-only-domestic-violence-if-youre-married\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s only domestic violence if you&#8217;re married"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8607,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.advocate.com\\\/new_news.asp?id=15513&amp;sd=03\\\/25\\\/05&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.advocate.com\\\/new_news.asp?id=15513&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6221,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8608,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FalbumTerm=Gothik%26partnerId%3D30&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a jaw-dropping, &#8220;holy shit&#8221; item: in Ohio, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/new_news.asp?id=15513&amp;sd=03\/25\/05\" title=\"The Advocate: Judge cites Ohio gay marriage ban in disallowing unmarried people from filing domestic violence charges\">beating someone you live with is only domestic violence if you&#8217;re married<\/a>, and the justification used for this is Ohio&#8217;s constitutional ban on same-sex marriages.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  A judge has ruled that Ohio&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>  Judges and others across the country have been waiting for a ruling on how Ohio&#8217;s ban on same-sex marriage, among the nation&#8217;s broadest, would affect the state&#8217;s 25-year-old domestic violence law, which previously wasn&#8217;t limited to married people.<\/p>\n<p>  Wednesday&#8217;s ruling by Cuyahoga County common pleas judge Stuart Friedman changed a felony domestic violence charge against Frederick Burk to a misdemeanor assault charge.<\/p>\n<p>  Burk, 42, is accused of slapping and pushing his live-in girlfriend during a January argument over a pack of cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>  His public defender, David Magee, had asked the judge to throw out the charge because of the new wording in Ohio&#8217;s constitution that prohibits any state or local government from enforcing a law that would &#8220;create or recognize a legal status for relationships of unmarried individuals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Prior to the amendment&#8217;s approval, courts applied the domestic violence law by defining a family as including an unmarried couple living together as would a husband and wife, the judge said. The new amendment banning same-sex marriage no longer allows that.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This disgusts me on all sorts of levels. The discrimination against same-sex partners is bad enough, but using that to reduce the possible penalties for abusing someone you live with purely because you&#8217;re unmarried is reprehensible &#8212; in this case, the assault was reduced from felony domestic violence, with a possible 18-month jail term, to a misdemeanor assault, with only a possible six month jail term.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping the appeals process goes a <em>long<\/em> way towards turning this mess around.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FsongTerm=Children of the Light%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Children of the Light' on the iTMS\">Children of the Light<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DEva O Halo Experience%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for Eva O Halo Experience on the iTMS\">Eva O Halo Experience<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FalbumTerm=Gothik%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for Gothik on the iTMS\">Gothik<\/a><\/em> (1994, 4:22).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a jaw-dropping, &#8216;holy shit&#8217; item: in Ohio, beating someone you live with is only domestic violence if you&#8217;re married, and the justification used for this is Ohio&#8217;s constitutional ban on same-sex marriages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-3226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}