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Results: Arkansas's unmarried couples adoption ban passes
Filed by: Alex Blaze
November 5, 2008 1:36 AM

http://www.bilerico.com/2008/11/arkansass_unmarried_couples_adoption_ban.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/11/arkansass_unmarried_couples_adoption_ban.php)

Alex 1:36

And CNN also called it for this one: Arkansas's Initiative Act 1, the ban on unmarried adoption, has passed.

Alex - 11:22

With 28% reporting, the act is up 59-41.

This isn't looking good, and it's absolutely ridiculous. This bill would overburden the foster care system in Arkansas, which already only has foster homes for about 1/3 children in that state. And it doesn't just take rights away from same-sex couples, but opposite-sex couples that aren't, for whatever reason, married.

It's awful, and it shouldn't win.

This was a "ban" I found totally inhumane and ridiculous!! "We're going to show you just how much we disapprove of you by hurting children in state custody."

Ya know, it takes a really and truly demented person to vote for that logic.

Has Tyson become strong enough in Arkansas that they've been allowed to register their chickens to vote?

Nichole

Have a bunch of institutionalised kids grow up without any sense f being loved or valued instead of placing them with individuals who can and want to make a positive difference to their lives, people that have love to give and who value those kids for who they are. I CANNOT for the life of me get how that makes any kinda sense to somebody who values compassion and social stability.

~Simone.

Wow, that is awful. The things people do when under gay panic :(

it's kind of crazy. We finally get a human being in the Oval office, but, almost as a consequence, a bunch of states are screwing with people.

Quote from: Nichole on November 05, 2008, 03:26:25 PM
This was a "ban" I found totally inhumane and ridiculous!! "We're going to show you just how much we disapprove of you by hurting children in state custody."

Ya know, it takes a really and truly demented person to vote for that logic.

Has Tyson become strong enough in Arkansas that they've been allowed to register their chickens to vote?

Nichole

Nichole, it's called "pro-family." And, no, so far the chicken lobby holds sway only California.

There was a sliver lining (in my state, at least) in '04. Now in '08, as Jerry Garcia said, every sliver lining has got a touch of grey. But, we will survive.

~Alyssa

Well I think Arkansas should take this one step further.  Anyone who is not in a legal marriage, should have their kids put in foster care, since they are not a married couple raising a kid.

I just assumed they were going to do that.