And we (the US) laugh at the middle east.
 

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/17/unm....ap/index.html

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.

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.

Black Jack's special counsel, Sheldon Stock, declined to say whether the city will seek to remove Loving and Shelltrack from their home.

The US is not a free country .... we all know that.
Why are you guys still fighting communism?

I wanna move there...
no property or utility taxes...

not that those 5 council members aren't total idiots.. but .. if you're with someone... you've got three kids, and you're looking to get a house together... you're basically married anyway so why not make it official?

another happy town in Bible belt area.. I wonder what happens if they find out someone watches porn on their PC

sounds great

That shit wont hold up in court

because the media says its baaaaaaaaaaad

Reason # 8,398 I moved out of the US.

Communism is nasty, nasty evil stuff - same with anything to do with muslims, suspicous looking Chinese people, any governments we don't agree with and hell *anything* outside the borders of the US - cos that means they are all "shit countries" and a threat to our national security :pimp

The dogma is working fine - ya just have to read GFY to see the evidence :winkwink:

Time to move on, nothing is free

This has everything to do with property owner rights and nothing to do with reasons posted.

WOW.. That is shocking :-(

haha, they must be getting hammered with traffic and email, they took the site offline

I saw CNN do a story on them a couple of weeks ago.. Evidently in years past, other families/groups of people like that have simply moved out of town.

Sounds like subversive population control. I'm willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that the city is very low income. Passing this bill helps keep the trailer trash from shacking up and multiplying to the point that 3 kids are sharing 1 bed in every room.

US is a jail