This story makes me ill.
Arkansas' foster care system is seriously broken. There is a desperate need for
good (major emphasis on the good) foster parents. There are way too many kids in facilities and group homes because placement can't be found in the foster homes we have now.
Kids are being shipped all over the state to foster homes or facilities in far away counties because it's very, very hard to find placement for kids especially in the larger counties.
And yet this group wants to deny unmarried couples living together (read: gays & lesbians) the right to foster/adopt children.
Forget that there is a major need.
Forget what's in the best interest of the children.
Forget that a lot of us are more than capable of providing care for these children.
According to this group you should ignore all these things and focus solely on "a 'homosexual agenda' in Arkansas."
The article states, "there is an agenda at work in other states that's being driven by the homosexual community, an agenda that uses children in foster care or waiting to be adopted. He said his group doesn't believe children should ever be used by a particular group to advance an agenda."
First, what the fuck is a homosexual agenda?
Seriously. I'm not being purposely obtuse; I just don't fucking understand what a homosexual agenda is.
Second, isn't this group doing exactly what it is accusing this homosexual agenda of?
Aren't they just throwing around a bunch of vague accusations against some alleged group in hopes that the people of Arkansas will vote to deny gays and lesbians yet another right in this state?
By doing this aren't they using the children in foster care to further their
own goals?
The news this morning said that this initiative would ban over half the people in Arkansas from fostering/adopting.
Wow.
What a great way to ensure there is a permanent foster home shortage.
What a great way to keep this system utterly and hopelessly broken.
