# Defense of Marriage in Virginia **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 26, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/defense-of-marriage-in-virginia/378024 "2006-10-26T21:14:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 37
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/defense-of-marriage-in-virginia/378024/37 "2006-10-27T16:56:38Z")
[QUOTE=Bricker] Do you have a good-faith belief that the ultimate result of the passage of the marriage amendment in Virginia will be the loss, as a matter of law, of the protections of Virginia Code 18.2-57.2, for unmarried family or household members as defined in Virginia Code 16.1-228? [/QUOTE] I consider it a matter of established fact, based on what happened in Ohio, that many victims of domestic violence would (at best) find it necessary to go through an extra wringer to obtain those protections or (at worst) be denied them altogether. Even the former is unacceptable, given that it would be inflicted as a side effect of an unnecessary measure to ward off a nonexistent problem. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/defense-of-marriage-in-virginia/378024)._