Ohio’s gay marriage ban doesn’t just protect the sanctity of good Christian marriage the way God intended it; it’s also got the added perk of getting domestic violence abusers off the hook, as in the case of Frederick Burk, a convicted abuser who, in a sterling example of “male headship,” slapped and pushed his live-in girlfriend around during an argument over a pack of cigarettes. Yesterday, Burk’s lawyer succeeded in having the case thrown out because the wording of the gay marriage ban passed last November prohibits any legal recognition of relationships between unmarried individuals, and the courts can no longer define a family as including an unmarried couple living together as would a husband and wife. Sure, that’s terrifying news for unmarried women living in abusive relationships, but we don’t want people living in sin in our Christian nation anyway, now do we?