State court: Domestic violence law unfair to gay couples [SC]

Associated Press ^ | Mar 24, 2016 6:32 PM EDT | Meg Kinnard

[Olog-hai]

A law that perhaps unintentionally failed to protect domestic violence victims in same-sex relationships appears to be unconstitutional, and now South Carolina’s high court is trying to decide what to do.

The court was asked on Wednesday to weigh in after a woman tried to get a protective order against her former fiancée, also a woman, and was denied. The state’s domestic violence law defines “household members” as a spouse, former spouse, people with a child in common, or specifically men and women who are or have lived together — but not unmarried same-sex couples. …

[EagleUSA]

Only lawyers are going to profit from all the gay pandering and PC crap. This was predicted by many.

[Pining_4_TX]

If you talk to cops off the record, they will tell you that a disproportionate number of domestic violence calls are from homosexual couples. These people are unstable.

[Secret Agent Man]

Very much so. And they are more violent than normal couples.

And as mentally messed up people it is not at all surprising.

[tbw2]

A separate issue I’ve read about:
* lesbians are proportionally far more likely to abuse partners than men
* if one goes to the women’s shelter, the other isn’t barred because they instinctively bar only men

[ameribbean expat]

And SC has no other law which would have generated a restraining order? I find that hard to believe. Gaystapo in action.

[StoneWall Brigade]

South Carolina, ping

[upchuck]

Thanks for the ping SWB.

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[Morpheus2009]

So I guess the problem is whether or not there is a men’s shelter, and how easily if a woman was getting beaten by another woman if her abuser could get into the shelter easily.