Ballot initiative results from Arkansas, Arizona, Connecticut, and Florida, oh and King County
Filed by: Alex Blaze
November 5, 2008 4:30 AM

http://www.bilerico.com/2008/11/ballot_initiative_results_from_arkansas.php

Arkansas Act 1

Arkansas voters passed Initiative Act 1 with 57% of the vote yesterday. The measure bans unmarried couples in that state from adopting or foster parenting. It doesn't affect single parents' ability to parent.

This is the most ridiculous ballot initiative I've seen in a while. The state of Arkansas has 3700 children in the foster care system and only 1000 available homes. One would think that the last thing that state would want to do would be to significantly reduce the number of foster parents, but there they went.

I realize that many social workers, faced with an even greater shortage of homes, will just start treating unmarried couples as single people. But the fact that there would even be people in the state so motivated by the Arkansas Supreme Court's decision in 2006, which lifted the ban on gay foster parenting, that they'd sacrifice children's well-being, is disgusting. I hope the Arkansans who voted for this come off their high this week, look at what they did, and are ashamed of themselves. Because there's nothing for them to be proud of here.