"Ark. High Court Backs Gay Foster Parents"

[GreenPartyVoter]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas cannot ban homosexuals from becoming foster parents because there is no link between their sexual orientation and a child's well-being, the state's high court ruled Thursday.

The court agreed with a lower court judge that the state's child welfare board had improperly tried to regulate public morality. The ban also violated the separation of powers doctrine, the justices said.

The board instituted the ban in 1999, saying children should be in traditional two-parent homes because they would be more likely to thrive.

Four residents sued, claiming discrimination and privacy violations against homosexuals who otherwise qualified as foster parents.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20060629/D8IHVM1O0.html

[jsamuel]

1. Arkansas is going blue!

WOOT!

[sui generis]

2. funny that

you're good enough to adopt and be foster parents but you can't get married or have any legal contract that approximates marriage to safeguard that family.

Does it get any more schizophrenic than that?

[Avalux]

3. Excellent.

It's wonderful to read stories like these where reasoning wins out over claims that have no basis in reality. Of course, this judge will be labeled dangerous, radical, activist, far-left.....etc. :eyes:

[jsamuel]

4. it was the high court, not judge

The justices agreed Thursday, saying the ban was "an attempt to legislate for the General Assembly with respect to public morality."

[Avalux]

5. Thanks.

My comment doesn't apply then; unless to all the justices. ;)

[jsamuel]

6. good news deserves a kick