About that anti-gay marriage amendment: Watch out for collateral damage

The NC Coalition Against Domestic Violence came out against the anti-LGBT marriage amendment today, warning that a similar constitutional change in Ohio wrecked havoc with its laws protecting people -- married or unmarried -- in domestic violence cases. In Ohio, the DV law protected unmarried folks who lived together "as if married," but of course, once the state constitution said that the only "u...

Independent Weekly • Sep 9, 2011