Me Hate Me, Part II

Holy fucking shit. What is going on here...

It turns out that the hastily-written, hastily-passed anti-gay, "we hate everyfuckingbody" bills from the last election cycle have two unintended consequences that would be funny except that they're so damn tragic. First, an Ohio woman who had a baby with her partner several years ago, is now using the anti-gay portion of the "sanctity of marriage" bill (are you kidding? Can you say "gay male prostitute in the White House"? "Henry Hyde's mistress"? "Rush Limbaugh's three divorces"?) to argue that her partner, who helped raise the kid, shouldn't get visitation rights, because there was no legal domestic relationship. If I recall correctly, she told Time magazine that "I'm using a law that's going to hurt me down the road..." and then, presumably, she lit up a crack pipe, robbed a bank, and joined a white power hate group--since she is such a proponent of glibly doing things that will only hurt her terribly "down the road". What a cunt.

The even worse news is this: the marriage laws aren't written to target gays, specifically. They disallow any marriage between same-sex partners, but they also render meaningless any relationship that "approximates marriage as defined". Meaning, of course, that common law is abolished. "Households" and "families" don't exist outside of marriage, in theory.

And lo and behold, scores of men in states that passed these ridiculous laws are contesting domestic violence charges against them, because there can be no domestic relationship under the new laws. Simple assault, which they are claiming they ought to be charged with, carries a much, much lighter sentence than domestic violence.

"Puttin' more violent offenders back on the streets--that's what the Republican Party has done for YOU!"

Thanks, you fucking assholes.