or you'll be
run out on a rail.
BLACK JACK, Mo. - The city council has rejected a measure allowing unmarried couples with multiple children to live together, and the mayor said those who fall into that category could soon face eviction.
That's right, wabbits. If you're shacking up, you can't live together in this town in suburban MO. And if you're a kid and your parents don't happen to be married, suddenly you are no longer part of a
family, by definition.
Is creating a segregated community of married families that follow a strict definition of nuclear the next notch on the dial of "defense of marriage?"
Olivia Shelltrack and Fondrey Loving were denied an occupancy permit after moving into a home in this St. Louis suburb because they have three children and are not married.
Although obviously, if they've been together long enough to have three children together, they're not exactly uncommitted to each other. This article in USA Today alludes to their partnership of 13 years.
Mayor Norman McCourt declined to be interviewed but said in a statement that those who do not meet the town's definition of family could soon face eviction.
It begs the question of how they're going to enforce this. DNA testing for everyone? Force stepdads/stepmoms onto the streets if they haven't legally adopted the children of their new partner's former marriage?
McCourt is quoted yesterday as maintaining that the law on the books is designed to prevent overcrowding, and that the intention was never to legislate morality. Why, then, was the occupancy permit declined today?