Judge Overturns Arkansas Adoption Ban

[kpete]

Source: KFSM



http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/Piazza%20Order.pdf

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In November 2008, 57 percent of Arkansas voters approved the measure, which prohibited unmarried couples from adopting or fostering children. In December of 2009 a lawsuit was filed by 29 adults and children who would be affected by Act One, and on Friday Judge Chris Piazza ruled the act was unconstitutional instead of proceeding into a trial.

The decision pleased Carole Barnes of Alma, who said her family was affected by the ban on unmarried couples from adopting or fostering children.

"Well I have a single daughter who's 40 years old that would, she's very capable of having a child in her home but that law prevented her from having that," Barnes said.

The measure effectively prevented gay and lesbian couples from adopting children, and received support from the Arkansas Family Council which had backed a previous attempt to keep homosexuals from adopting. Steven Cox with the Family Council said that Judge Piazza's actions fly in the face of the majority of Arkansans' wishes.



Read more: http://www.kfsm.com/news/kfsm-news-adoption-ban-overturned,0,991490.story

[JI7]

1. people who vote for such things don't care about the kids

they would rather kids have no parents and be abused than have one good parent or a good same sex couple from taking care of them.

[defendandprotect]

2. Good . . .

[Gman]

3. and it matters not to Mr. Cox that this majority voted for something unconstitutioal

that's often lost on the RW, regardless of how much they talk about the constitution.

[iamthebandfanman]

11. no no no

they clearly only support the parts that help them when they need it. it doesnt apply to the rest of us. duh silly.


lol

[Gman]

14. On one hand they the constitution is an unincluded book of Holy Scripture

and just as divinely inspired. On the other, they want mob rule, the constitution be damned.

[Onceuponalife]

4. Right on

:applause:

[No Elephants]

5. Thank you, Judge Piazza. Nothing worse than a bad judge; nothing better than a good one.

Equal rights under the law means the law cannot discriminate against any group, even if some bigot's warped, control freak view of the Bible supposedly requires it.

[chollybocker]

6. Once again, Huck has failed to Save America's Puppies.

Huck, huck, huck. :evilgrin:

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

17. HA

:thumbsup:

[Heathen57]

7. When you are removing the rights of a minority,

The majority be damned! These idiots cannot seem to understand anything about the Constitution of the US much less the one from their state.

The only thing they really care about is forcing their religious laws onto the rest of the country, and the low brow fools who only listen to the likes of Pat Robertson, Focus, and the entertainers at Faux Noise are the ones who will complain about this the most.

[tomm2thumbs]

8. the part of his order that made the most sense, perhaps for other cases was...

"If the constitutional concept of equal protection of the law means anything, it must at the very least mean that a bare...desire to harm a politically unpopular group cannot constitute a legitimate governmental interest."


Strangely to the point...

[ima_sinnic]

9. how irksome it must be to some people that we have the freedoms we do

:nopity:

watch the zealots try to appeal, try to force their narrow, bigoted, hateful, pathetic view of the world on the rest of us and make it law.

[rpannier]

10. People need to go to the website and read the comments

Then click 'judge it' they got some great choices

[keopeli]

15. +1

[Not Me]

12. Damn

Florida now trails Arkansas. This place sucks.

[alp227]

13. NICE! More right-wing tricks blown up.

"The Family" made sure to cloak its homophobia under a blanket ban on unmarried couples in general. When marriage is restricted to heterosexual couples, the Family knew darn well that the "ban on gays" wouldn't be too obvious. The fact is that single parents and gay parents exist and can raise good kids. I mean, even Clarence Thomas grew up with only his grandfather raising him most of his childhood. Won't conservatives acknowledge that?

[femrap]

16. Maybe Arkansas

should be its own little country. I can't believe 57% of the people would deny children a home.