The Arkansas News has just reported that Circuit Judge Chris Piazza today issued a ruling striking down an amendment to the Arkansas Constitution banning adoption or foster parenting by gays and lesbians.
Act 1 was passed by Arkansas voters in 2008, and the ACLU filed a suit challenging the ban shortly thereafter.
Today, Judge Piazza said the ban “infringes upon the fundamental right to privacy guaranteed to all citizens of Arkansas.” His ruling also said Act 1 unconstitutionally burdens non-marital relationships and acts of sexual intimacy between adults by forcing them to choose between becoming a parent and having any meaningful type of intimate relationship outside of marriage.
Act 1 supporters had said the ban should be upheld because children are better off being raised in “traditional family” settings with married parents of opposite genders, and that the ban would protect children from abuse and neglect.
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Garsh, all those wholesome opoosite sex marriage households never do anything wrong, do they?
“children are better off being raised in “traditional family” settings with married parents of opposite genders, and that the ban would protect children from abuse and neglect.”
WTF? SERIOUSLY?….oh, of course, because heterosexual never abuse or neglect their children…I guess that would explain why there are so many children in foster homes, and up for adoption now – any why that 6 year old little boy was found dead and abandoned near lake Lavone in Wylie on Thursday.
There’s a valid reason. To quote most devout heteros, “homosexual relationships do not last.” With a divorce rate that exceeds 50%, apparently a lot of heterosexual relationships don’t last either.
Honestly! Give it up Act 1 supporters! There are so many broken families that live just fine OUTSIDE of the “traditional family” settings with married parents of opposite genders. Children will thrive no matter who their parents are “married to”. Anyone is prone to abuse and neglect.