Pardon me while I toss my cookies in disgust.
Three months ago I pointed out the ongoing struggle of a family in St. Louis being kicked out of their home due to a bizarre ordinance within the city. The current law prohibits more than three people from living together unless they are related by “blood, marriage or adoption.” Olivia Shelltrack and Fondrey Loving were denied occupancy following their move into a home in a suburb. The reason? They have three children and are unmarried. “The town’s Planning and Zoning Commission proposed a change in the law, but the measure was rejected [yesterday] by the City Council in a 5-3 vote.”
One might think this was nothing more than a gross misunderstanding, the inadvertent inability of the city council to fully appreciate the circumstances of the case. One would be wrong in making such an assumption. “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.”
You see, it was not possible for the city to approve ordinance changes when they would be forced to admit that a family might easily consist of four or more people without also forcefully including a married couple. In fact, the rejected change stated nothing more than that a family might be unmarried parents with two or more children. And why do you think the measure was defeated with a statistically large majority? Because, poppets — and don’t make me smack you around for not realizing this immediately — the modification represented an unstated, indirect extrapolation that gay couples with kids could, under the law at least, be defined as a family.
What a truly sad state in which our nation now finds itself.
[I again point out the cosmologically karmic coincidence of the last name of the father in this outcast family: Loving. That is also the last name of the interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving, who are directly responsible for the downfall of anti-miscegenation laws in America. The SCOTUS struck down all such laws in 1967. They also struck down all sodomy laws in June 2003. What an undeniably significant irony on all counts.]