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Parents, kids not necessarily 'family' everywhere Updated 5/16/2006 4:48 AM ET
By Martha T. Moore, USA TODAY When Olivia Shelltrack saw the yellow house with green shutters, she loved it right away. It had a yard, a deck, a finished basement and five bedrooms — plenty of space for Shelltrack, her partner of 13 years, Fondray Loving, and their three children. It was in their price range.
But the house is in Black Jack, Mo., where anyone moving into a house must get a permit of occupancy. When Shelltrack and Loving went to get theirs, the city said no.
Black Jack prohibits more than three unrelated people from living together. City officials ruled that Shelltrack and Loving, who are not married, and the three kids, one of them Shelltrack's from a previous relationship, fit that description. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-05-15-unmarried-family_x.htm
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Why would anybody even want to live in such a town? This is their own problem and they should solve it their own way. Forget the litigation. Any town has every right to make whatever assanine laws they want to. If you don't like, go elsewhere. There's zillions of towns that would love to get their property taxes.
They are fools if they fight to live in such a backwards place. Why would you even fork over one cent to this town? If they made a stand and left, I'm sure others would follow and the city council would like look the losers here.
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heh, that place's nothing compared to this:
The Sunday Times February 26, 2006
'Pizza pope' builds a Catholic heaven Tony Allen-Mills, New York A FORMER marine who was raised by nuns and made a fortune selling pizza has embarked on a £230m plan to build the first town in America to be run according to strict Catholic principles.
.... The town will be centred around a 100ft tall oratory and the first Catholic university to be built in America for 40 years. The university’s president, Nicholas J Healy, has said future students should “help rebuild the city of God” in a country suffering from “catastrophic cultural collapse”.
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It's illegal to live together if you're not married in New Mexico, and it's strictly enforced at NMSU student housing. Funny thing, most of the people from out of state who I have told about the law reply with a hearty, "Good, all the states should have that law." lol
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