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[fortyfeetunder]

This was a dupe - go here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5700917

[baldguy]

1. Fuck that.

The GOVERNMENT doesn't get to tell me who can & can't be in my family!

[electropop]

2. Guess that's why I've always called it Manasshole.

:evilgrin:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. Oh yea. alot of us had something to say about that earlier....

Some kind of "family values" huh?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5700917

[Ms. Toad]

4. Laws like this were pretty common

in the 70s - my understanding is that they were drafted to get rid of hippie communes.

I find this interesting

>>Kent Willis, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, said the new rule is "constitutionally questionable" and pointed to a 1977 Supreme Court ruling that struck down a similar law defining family passed by the city of East Cleveland, Ohio.<<

Hmm...that law in East Cleveland was still being used to deny school registration to children in GLBT families in the mid to late 80s. It's been a while since I looked at the case but I think the unconstitutionality had to do with barring folks with legally recognized family relationships from living together, but it was still OK as long as there was no legally recognized relationship.