Anti-gay ballot initiative in California could ban all marriages, straight ones included

This isn't uncommon, the religious right offering some anti-gay measure that is so broad it does lots of other damage. In Ohio a few years back, the anti-gay measure there ended up making parts of a state domestic violence law unconstitutional. The Ohio courts found that you can't protect single women from domestic violence, otherwise you'd be treating their domestic situation the same as for married women, and you can't do that under these anti-gay laws - married is not the same as unmarried, per these laws. So in Ohio, women who were beaten up by their boyfriends couldn't fall back on the state's domestic violence laws. Similar thing happening in California, in that the language appears so broad that it's affecting everything. So for all you Californians, when the anti-gays say "oh that's absurd, it would never happen" - tell them about Ohio. More from the LA Times.