They say getting older makes you more conservative. Maybe it’s true, because when I read this over at AmericaBlog, my reaction wasn’t quite the same as John’s:
Anyone who thought this “traditional family values” garbage was only focusing on gays, well, get ready because you’re next.
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Olivia Shelltrack finally has her dream home. Her family moved into the five-bedroom, three-bath frame house in Black Jack last month. But now she fears she and her fiance face uprooting their children because of a city ordinance that says her household fails to meet Black Jack’s definition of a family.
Shelltrack and Fondray Loving, her boyfriend of 13 years, were denied an occupancy permit because of an ordinance forbidding three or more individuals from living together if they are not related by “blood, marriage or adoption.” The couple have three children, ages 8, 10 and 15, although Loving is not the biological father of the oldest child.
Here’s what I simply don’t understand. They’ve been together 13 years. The have kids together. They own a home together. Why on earth don’t they just get married and be done with it?
I know, I know, they’re entitled to organized their lives the way they choose to organize them, and it’s more than a little stupid for the town to pass an ordiance like that. But really, would it kill them to just go to city hall and get the piece of paper? Especially since there are so many financial and legal benefits to being married. It’s not like being married is a Bad Thing.
Like I said, maybe I’m just too old to get it. But I don’t see what is so horribly wrong about getting married.
*sigh* Between this post, the Mark Morford thing, and my post about David Irving the week before that, I’ll probably get kicked off a few progressive blogrolls for showing DINO tendencies. I’m sorry, truly, if I’ve upset any readers. All I can say is, this is who I am; if I’m not quite as far Left as you thought, I’m sorry. I do think Joe Lieberman is a dork – does that help?