[news] the war on you

Well, on many of you.

Mo. Town Denies Unmarried Couple Permit

When I first read about this, I assumed they had gotten turned down for domestic partnership registration, or maybe some kind of public aid. But no: The city council of a Missouri town declined to change-- and the mayor suggested he might soon enforce-- a rule forbidding four or more people from living together unless connected by "blood, marriage or adoption". If you try, you can be evicted by the city.

(This came up when an unmarried couple with three children was refused an occupancy permit, which seems like an insane interpretation of the law in the first place; the kids are blood relatives of both parents, after all. Saying that any pair of people has to be connected directly to each other by blood/marriage/adoption would essentially forbid two people that each had a child in a previous marriage from getting married, even if both parents adopted the other's kid-- the children still wouldn't be blood relatives.)

I have to ask: Are there unenforced laws like this all over the place which I just haven't heard about? (Are there enforced laws like this, in which case I would feel very naive?)