The town of Black Jack, Missouri has rejected a measure that would unmarried couples to live together, provided that they have children. Social conservatives have already shown the country that they are against same sex unions; in the same old-fashioned, close minded view they are now using governmental power to force all people who wish to live together to get married.
The couple who attempted to fight this law have several children together and bought a house. They now face eviction because the city has the audacity to issue "occupancy permits." When someone is a land-owner, they should be able to live however they want on that land, as long as they do not cause direct harm to others. We have the natural right to consent, what we consent to is under the control of nobody but ourselves.
This situation illustrates why we need to end all licensing of marriage. Why do we have to ask the government permission to marry? What happens if the government starts saying no to "normal couples" because they lived together before marriage and therefore have committed sins, or had prior divorces? What if in a state like Missouri, legislators inact a law removing children from such situations and giving them to married couples? How far will people legislate morality? Some people do not like gay marriage. They have the right not to like it, they do not have the right to control it.
If the majority always got its way, we would probably not have freedoms such as speech, religion, and due process. The majority is OK with the government spying on us. The majority should have no right to control any rights, rights are given to us by the virtue of our humanity, they cannot be taken away from us.
