"It'll undo domestic violence protections." Nope. Wisconsin domestic violence laws don't factor sexual orientation. In fact, 2001 Wis. Act 109 expanded our statute to "romantic or intimate social relationship(s) between (two) adult individuals" — no word on orientation.
"Gays will lose visitation rights, power of attorney, etc." Actually, anybody can make these arrangements with anyone, regardless of the relationship. How do eccentric widows leave property to their cats?
They write a will. To liberals who scoff at this, why, then, was the importance of everybody getting their legal affairs in order the only lesson you learned and promoted after Terri Schiavo's murder?
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In particular, he has been battered for living in Virginia rather than Pennsylvania, and for taking $70,000 from Pennsylvania for his children's home-school education. After his book of conservative values, "It Takes a Family," was released last year, Santorum was criticized for passages that appeared to demean working mothers.
Santorum has repeatedly drawn heat as the voice of the extreme right on controversial social issues such as abortion and gay marriage - during an interview he infamously compared gay sex to "man-on-dog" sex - and championing Terri Schiavo's right to remain on life support.
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What protection can the law afford against domestic violence? Ever? Only moral education and personal restraint can stay your hand from striking your spouse or partner. The law can't prevent violence, it can only punish the wrong-doer afterward.
With the erosion of moral education and religious values, domestic violence has become the number one cause of death and injury to young women. It's even slightly ahead of the carnage from auto accidents, although the two figures are in the same ball park. Nothing else -- disease, suicide, other accidents -- is even close. We've been through the figures and their sources in great detail. (Domestic violence is substantially higher in non-married than married relationships, btw, and I believe it is higher still in gay relationships.)
So what can the law do about this? Nothing. The law is, in fact, left-handedly feeding the epidemic of DV by prohibiting all trace of moral and religious teaching from public schools. Thank you, ACLU -- you have this blood on your hands.
Terri Schiavo suffered severe trauma at some point. The odds are very high it was the night she ended up on the floor nearly dead soon after her husband came home. There is no other explanation of how she was so badly injured. Michael has no alibi. None.