{"id":6829,"date":"2006-08-11T16:28:09","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T20:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6829"},"modified":"2006-08-11T16:28:09","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T20:28:09","slug":"that-damn-aclu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6829","title":{"rendered":"THAT DAMN ACLU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&#038;storyid=2006-08-11T122956Z_01_N10171145_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIFE-MARRIAGE.xml&#038;src=rss\">Always sticking its nose in where it doesn&#8217;t belong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) &#8211; A Missouri couple who must get married, or move, in order to comply with a housing ordinance in Black Jack, Missouri, sued the town on Thursday, claiming rules prohibiting the unmarried couple and their children from living together are unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>The petition, filed in the Circuit Court of St. Louis County, challenges a Black Jack city ordinance that prohibits more than three people from living together in the same house if they are unrelated by blood, marriage or adoption.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Shelltrack and Loving have lived together about 13 years and have two children together, along with a 15-year-old daughter of Shelltrack&#8217;s from a previous relationship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The town argues that they&#8217;re not a family.  Where are all those &#8220;parental rights&#8221; folks now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always sticking its nose in where it doesn&#8217;t belong. KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) &#8211; A Missouri couple who must get married, or move, in order to comply with a housing ordinance in Black Jack, Missouri, sued the town on Thursday, claiming rules prohibiting the unmarried couple and their children from living together are unconstitutional. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}