What do you think?

I personally am not in agreement with this and would definately vote against it were I a resident of that state. I think if someone has love to give a child, no matter what there marital circumstance, they should be given a chance. If they are stable, mentally and financially, and can give the child love and support that their parents obviously werent able to give then why not give them that chance.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080825/ap_on_re_us/gay_foster_ban

ITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A proposal aimed at effectively banning gays and lesbians from becoming foster or adoptive parents was cleared Monday to appear on this fall's ballot in Arkansas.
The measure would prohibit unmarried couples living together from fostering or adopting children, and Arkansas doesn't allow gays to marry or recognize gay marriages conducted elsewhere.
Secretary of State Charlie Daniels certified the proposed initiated act for the Nov. 4 ballot after verifying that the Arkansas Family Council Action Committee had submitted 85,389 valid signatures of registered voters. Supporters needed to turn in at least 61,974 valid signatures.
"Arkansas needs to affirm the importance of married mothers and fathers," Family Council President Jerry Cox said. "We need to publicly affirm the gold standard of rearing children whenever we can. The state standard should be as close to that gold standard of married mom and dad homes as possible."
The Family Council campaign is a response to a 2006 Arkansas Supreme Court decision striking down a state policy that specifically banned gays and lesbians from becoming foster parents.
The ballot measure would take the place of a state policy that currently bars unmarried couples living together from serving as foster parents.
The measure faces the threat of a lawsuit from groups who say that it unfairly discriminates against unmarried couples and limits the number of foster and adoptive homes available for children.
Arkansas Families First is campaigning against the measure and has said it plans to file a lawsuit to keep it from appearing on the November ballot. Debbie Willhite, a lead consultant for the group, said last week that the group has found signatures that should have been rejected by the state as invalid and that the group also plans to challenge the constitutionality of the measure.
"We're going to work very hard to defeat this because it is just bad policy for children," Willhite said.
Attorney General Dustin McDaniel opposes the proposed initiated act but said last week that he was confident it could survive a legal challenge.
Cox said the Family Council will rely on support from the same network of churches that helped it pass a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in 2004.
The Family Council's campaign had a debt of nearly $2,800 as of July 31. By comparison, Arkansas Families First reported more than $45,000 in the bank for its efforts to fight the measure.

Quoting **Kat**:“ I personally am not in agreement with this and would definately vote against it were I a resident of ... [snip!] ... of July 31. By comparison, Arkansas Families First reported more than $45,000 in the bank for its efforts to fight the measure.”

This makes me so mad..

There is such a lack of available homes for children in need of them as it is. Why put these stupid, meaningless, arbitrary rules in to bar even more children from having a happy home? Is being gay that abhorrent?

Quoting **Kat**:“ I personally am not in agreement with this and would definately vote against it were I a resident of ... [snip!] ... of July 31. By comparison, Arkansas Families First reported more than $45,000 in the bank for its efforts to fight the measure.”

I think it's ridiculous to assume the homosexual populace is incapable of raising a child. They aren't like a sub-human poopulation. Peopleneed to give uptrying to control other's lifestyles. The child may have to suffer through occassionalissues with his/her peers on the matter but if people stopped being so ignorant this could beomitted as well.Not to mention if a couple wanted to adopt it'd be a much more fulfilling lifestyel than if they were to just stay in a foster home in which staff has such serious regulations the children wouldn't recieve the love they could if they found a home (i.e. I worked with orphans and they had rules such as no hugging the children) . . . children need love. I can understand rules such as no groping the children, but you can't hug them when they ask for a hug?? What kid will have a healthy up-bringing if their emotional needs are not catered to as well? I think they'd be much better off with a homosexual couple than they would be alone.

That pisses me off. There are so many children who need love. How can people be so close minded that they would rather a child grow up unadopted and screwed up mentally then to allow them to be reared by gay/lesbians?

On top of that...there are a lot of people who really don't believe in marriage. Why should they have to get married in order to adopt?

Quoting Brittany aka Bree:“ That pisses me off. There are so many children who need love. How can people be so close minded that ... [snip!] ... that...there are a lot of people who really don't believe in marriage. Why should they have to get married in order to adopt?”

As far as marriage is concerned I agree as well. My mother raised me as a single mother and had my abusive father stuck around I would have been way moremessed up. Whoever put all these rules down quite obviously didn't have to grow up an orphan.

So let me get this straight. The type of people supporting this ban are probably the type that don't want abortions, and then they also want to strictly limit the pool of who can care for unwanted babies.

That makes no sense