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Keep our young’uns away from ‘dem Homosex’ules
In QuizLaw’s continuing efforts to apprise you of the backwards, retarded state of our nation, this afternoon’s entry will swing to the left of the dial and focus on gays and the law. While my colleague is fond of chronicling the antics in his hometown of Philadelphia (where cheese steaks must be ordered in English only), the folks in the part of the country where I hail from aren’t entirely progressively minded either.
In fact, in Arkansas today, the state’s highest court is hearing arguments over whether gay couples in the Natural State are allowed to become foster parents. The state, obviously, is arguing that a ban on such arrangements would protect a child’s moral and spiritual welfare. The ACLU, however, asserts that such a ban is not only unconstitutional and discriminatory, but it reduces the number of eligible parents willing to feed an extra mouth or two.
As it turns out, the state doesn’t allow unmarried heterosexual couples who live together to become foster parents, either; however, single unmarried folks are perfectly allowed to have foster children. What’s the reasoning behind this backwards logic? Apparently, the health, safety, and welfare of children is endangered if the child is forced to live in a home where “unmarried sex occurs.”
Really?! And here I thought that guns, drugs, and lawyers were the root of all evil. I grew up in Arkansas, and I have to say, unmarried sex is just part of life down there — how the hell else do you think they’re going to populate the pool of foster children?
