DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. A new bill on domestic violence, which expands its reach, faces opposition from Conservatives and the Republicans in the Judiciary Committee, based on prejudicial argumentation at best. Domestic Violence is already undergoing stresses in evaluation: now the New York Housing Authority will not give preferred placement to victims of psychological battery, only physical, and only if accompanied by police complaints. The new law would expand coverage to immigrants by offering them temporary visas, Indian tribes, rural areas and same sex couples. The verbose and inconsequential opposition has been telling: it resents helping illegal immigrants, basically depriving them of protection in the eventuality of the crime and considers the expansion to other groups a dilution of the law's coverage. Phyllis Schlafly is the most calloused, discriminatory, short sighted and inhumane arguers of them all: she considers complaints of domestic violence only an example of man hatred aimed at destroying the sacred bond of marriage by leading to divorce. After all, what is facing murder or the possibility of a breakdown leading to harm to oneself or others in the face of the sanctity of marriage and a necessarily unspoken male's prerogative to violent prevarication, that should not even be met with a self-preserving hatred for the offending party, not of his entire gender?