Does anyone know what happened in Black Jack, Missouri today?

[northzax]

I can't find a single thread on it? :shrug:

[MADem]

1. Did you look here?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2290249

[liberal N proud]

2. What shocks me is where Black Jack is located in MO

I could understand some of the thinking from rural areas of Missouri having lived there but in an urban area, that blows my mind.

[myrna minx]

3. There is a discussion about it here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1214873

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Town won't let unmarried parents live together (AP/CNN)

Wednesday, May 17, 2006; Posted: 11:41 a.m. EDT (15:41 GMT)

BLACK JACK, Missouri (AP) -- 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.

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.

The town's Planning and Zoning Commission proposed a change in the law, but the measure was rejected Tuesday by the City Council in a 5-3 vote.

"I'm just shocked," Shelltrack said. "I really thought this would all be over, and we could go on with our lives."

The current ordinance prohibits more than three people from living together unless they are related by "blood, marriage or adoption." The defeated measure would have changed the definition of a family to include unmarried couples with two or more children.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/17/unmarried.ap/index.html

[truebrit71]

5. If it's my home, and I own it, the government can go fuck themselves...

Unless this is government subsidized housing this simply CANNOT be constitutional...Besides which the interpretation of the ordinance is wrong. If I read this correctly, 1 father, 1 mother, 3 kids. If the three kids are from the same mother and father then they are all related to one another and the ordinance doesn't apply....

Fucking stupid morans...... :eyes:

[iilana X]

6. This is depressing.

What next? No...on second though, don't answer that. x(