Tennessee DA: Domestic violence laws don't apply to gay people

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  1. clarkeT

    clarkeT Well-Known Member

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    Technically he was not working for a church. He ws acting on beliefs which run counter to the law. I agree he should not put his personal morals above the law. I simply disagree with you about the possible source of those beliefs. some people dislike gays just because they're different.
     
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    Domestic violence laws are typically meant to protect women, who generally have a smaller body and are weaker, from men, who are generally bigger and have a stronger body.

    In the case of two people of the same gender, you presumably have two people of the same body size and strength, so the one isn't particularly deserving of protection.

    I believe that's half the rationale here.

    Also I don't see why domestic violence laws should be any different from normal violence laws.
    If anything, I think in many situations they should be more lax when it comes to domestic violence than non-domestic violence. When you're intimate with someone there's many things you can do to them that you can't do to just some random person.

    Maybe this DA would have still enforced the domestic violence law if the two gay persons were actually living together like they were married, and all of the same types of factors actually applied that apply to stereotypical cases that domestic violence laws were intended for.
     
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    Domestic violence laws should protect men from women (men from men and women from women), just as they protect women from men. Also, IMHO, domestic violence is for any intimate relationship not just marriage.
     
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