Arkansas Debates Ban on Gay Adoption & Foster Parents, pt.1

An Arkansas Senate Public Health Committee debates banning gay, lesbian ,and unmarried couples from being foster parents or adopting. poor audio quality is from the actual room acoustics. The poor spelling is mine :) (pt.1 of 19)

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• Arkansas
• gay
• lesbian
• adoption
• foster
• children
• law

[celticcoldfire]

That is a perfectly valid point...actually studies show that homosexuals are actually more inclined to be slightly better parents due to the planning and work it takes to get there.

[Serenityearth]

Excellent point. I was placed in foster care with my sister at age 6. A heterosexual home. The couple was not loving at all. My brothers went to another home and ended up spending most of their lives in foster care. They hated it. I see nothing wrong with a loving gay couple taking care of foster children. I would have rather been placed in a loving gay home then that uncaring home I went too. Sad to see selfish people who try to prevent gay couples from caring for children that need good homes.

[JordanJennicide]

fuck all Arkansas haters ! A small group of rednecks cant set a prespective for a.whole state.

[Frever95]

OMG Arkansas!!!!!!!!!! How dare you!

[DavieDave59]

Arkansas = dumbasses

[HDaviator]

Stupidity in Arkansas.... is this supposed to be surprising?

[vidhead85]

This isn't about kids--ACT 1 was about punishing gays and lesbians for being the one thing many people strive to be--PARENTS!

[formaltaliti]

Its a shame my state desided to do this -.- damn ignorant people!

[rainbowheartgirl]

Payson, this is probably pointless, but gay adoption is already legal in most states. That's why this case made news. I myself have two gay dads, and I was born in the 80s. I feel sad that your heart seems to be filled with so much hatred and prejudice towards people you've never even met. If you met my family, you'd see that we're perfectly nice people. My brothers and I did not suffer from having gay parents. On the contrary, we were blessed to have had a loving home.

[rainbowheartgirl]

This is just awful. Way worse than Prop 8, and Prop 8 got all the attention. What kind of country do we live in where you pass laws against other people's families and try to ban them from having kids? People should think about the poor kids in foster care, and all the kids in orphanages in other countries and the kids who are born to lesbian couples who can't have second-parent adoption. It's just not fair. I have two gay dads and I don't see why I should be treated like a second-class citizen.