UPDATE: DV charges can’t be brought against unmarried people because of gay marriage ban

Last month, Feministing reported that a lower-than-low Ohio lawyer was trying to get his client out of domestic violence charges by using the state’s gay marriage ban. He argued that his client, who was not married to the victim, “cannot be charged with the felony because domestic violence charges should be reserved for married couples under the state’s law defining marriage.”
I never really thought this argument would stick, but it seems that Judge Stuart Friedman—who ruled yesterday that domestic violence charges cannot be filed against unmarried people—found it compelling enough to screw unmarried women across the state:
Judges and others across the country have been waiting for a ruling on how the gay marriage ban, among the nation’s broadest, would affect Ohio’s 25-year-old domestic violence law, which previously wasn’t limited to married people.
…Before the amendment, 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 gay marriage amendment no longer allows that.
Un-fucking-believable.
I would say more, but I think Media Girl’s analysis sums up my sentiments exactly:
At least the battered unmarried women of Ohio can find solace in the fact that their suffering is for the noble cause of preventing gays from marrying. Here’s to black eyes against gays. Here’s to broken ribs to support heterosexuality. Here’s to rape in the name of straight pride.