They may not realize it yet, but cultural conservatives got some bad news in Ohio. Late in April, the Ohio Supreme Court agreed to hear Ohio v. Carswell, a case that asks whether the state’s recent Marriage Amendment nullifies the legal protections currently afforded unmarried victims of domestic abuse.
Virtually no matter the court’s answer, cultural conservatives will lose, setting back efforts in Ohio and elsewhere to pass and enforce anti-gay-marriage amendments, as well as the broader national project of which they’re a part – the push to make the law an annex of traditional morality.
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