Here is a vivid demonstration of what happens when you try to legislate hate and bigotry. The lovely Republicans of Ohio turned their hate of homosexuals into a hate based law that banned people of the same sex from marrying. But in their haste they wrote it too broadly. So now it effects any un-married couple as well. Which meant that a judge had to decrease the felony battery charge that was applied to a man who had assaulted his live-in girlfriend to a misdemeanor.
Obviously the Republicans who wrote the law to punish gays in particular are not happy with this. They wanted the law to punish gays alone. But, as it turns out, when you write laws to punish people who you hate and fear, you end up punishing yourself as well.
What amazes me is that nobody on the right seems to see the parallels with the use of the bible to fight the emancipation of the slaves after the Civil War.
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