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Offline Chris_

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ACLU Sues Over Arkansas Ban on Adoption, Foster Care by Unmarried Couples
« on: December 30, 2008, 09:49:04 PM »
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ACLU Sues Over Arkansas Ban on Adoption, Foster Care by Unmarried Couples

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.  —  More than a dozen families filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new Arkansas law banning unmarried couples living together from becoming foster or adoptive parents.

The Arkansas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit on behalf of the families in Pulaski County Circuit Court seeking to overturn Act 1, which was approved by voters in last month's general election.

"Act 1 violates the state's legal duty to place the best interest of children above all else," said Marie-Bernarde Miller, a Little Rock attorney in the lawsuit.

The group filed the lawsuit on behalf of 29 adults and children from more than a dozen families, including a grandmother who lives with her same-sex partner of nine years and is the only relative able and willing to adopt her grandchild, who is now in Arkansas' state care.

The plaintiffs also include Stephanie Huffman and Wendy Rickman, a lesbian couple raising two sons together who want to adopt a foster child from the state.

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Well we certainly can't have the citizens voting on laws like this now can we?  [/DUmp mode]
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Re: ACLU Sues Over Arkansas Ban on Adoption, Foster Care by Unmarried Couples
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2008, 11:23:59 PM »
What good is voting if some freaking court can just over rule the vote anyway?

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Re: ACLU Sues Over Arkansas Ban on Adoption, Foster Care by Unmarried Couples
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2008, 08:28:30 AM »

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"Act 1 violates the state's legal duty to place the best interest of children above all else," said Marie-Bernarde Miller, a Little Rock attorney in the lawsuit.

Unless that 'legal duty' is actually contained in the Arkansas Constitution, which is extremely unlikely, the driving policy behind State adoption, fostering or custody of minors is set by whatever the newest law on the books says about it, and it does not have to be that one.

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Re: ACLU Sues Over Arkansas Ban on Adoption, Foster Care by Unmarried Couples
« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2008, 09:57:37 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on December 31, 2008, 08:28:30 AM
Unless that 'legal duty' is actually contained in the Arkansas Constitution, which is extremely unlikely, the driving policy behind State adoption, fostering or custody of minors is set by whatever the newest law on the books says about it, and it does not have to be that one.



...or if it fits the liberal agenda which in this case is some homsexual social engineering.
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