Utterly Meaningless

Well, if the definition of family requires that everyone has to be related to everyone else by blood or marriage, half the folks in my town would be in trouble.

True story (WARNING! WARNING! ANECDOTE AHEAD!): Years ao in DE when our youngest (now 7) was just a baby, there was a young girl, age maybe 12, who lived down the street. This girl had a very complicated family life. Her mom and her current stepfather had each been married three times and had kids from each marriage. ( I’m not sure we ever really figured out all the relationships.) She was visiting Lydia and the baby when she innocently asked if all four kids had the same father. Assured that they do, she was shocked. She’d never known anyone to stay married or together long enough to have four kids. A marriage that had lasted 13 years was equally unheard of.

Lydia and I just celebrated 20 on Wednesday. I wonder what she’d say now.

Jodi asks-
since when does the government have the right to issue permits for people to live in their own home?

JJ exclaims –
you’re kidding, right?

Except in college towns, these ordinances tend to be aimed at poor minorities who share a house or apartment to cut down on expenses. The laws are transparently racist.

Of course, the law could also ensnare two gays or lesbians with kids.

Gotta watch out for those right wing nuts trying to get home owner registries and communities like this organized. While communities zone, registries are more far reaching in that they ask if one is married, single, co-habitating single same sex, and co-habitating single opposite sex.

Yikes, think of the problems that could arise from these registries and communities:

~Iin communities where married onlys are zoned in, selling a home at a fair price could be problematic for a non-married person as they try to move out of the community to be in compliance with the ordinance.

~If the registries are public, businesses could use them to hire people based on life style. Yeah, yeah, Constitution and all, but what really could stop employers from peeking in on people and basing qulaifications also on life style and risks associated?

~Married only zoned communities bring in married only businesses. Ack. Think of the implications for diversity of goods and market fairness. If these are found Constiitutionally sound for one group, it could spill over to a whole county or state.

~Regulating families so tightly leads could also lead to someone spouting off about education and lead the community to adopt a code for children of residents to attend a mandatory private or g-school based on only one style of family values.

~Married only communities might lean toward a pastor to be the HOA leader – which eerily makes me think of Hilldale and Colorado City.