Congrats, Arkansas
Don’t get to say that very often…
Arkansas high court unanimously rejects gay adoption ban
In a unanimous decision and sweeping decision, the Arkansas Supreme Court today struck down a regulation that banned lesbian and gay people from serving as foster parents.
The decision ends a seven-year legal battle between the state and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Pointing to the findings of a lower court that overturned the ban, the Court criticized the Child Welfare Agency Review Board’s reasons for enacting the regulation, writing, “These facts demonstrate that there is no correlation between the health, welfare, and safety of foster children and the blanket exclusion of any individual who is a homosexual or who resides in a household with a homosexual.”</i>
I guess homophobic religious zealots will have to find a different state’s rock to hide under now.
