The Saturday edition of our statewide daily newspaper gets fewer readers, which make it a more important edition to read. Sometimes you get four day old news worth noting.
Today's ArkansasDemocrat-Gazette reports the Governor said Wednesday he doesn't believe foster kids should be in "gay foster homes" because of "today's society."
Children in such homes could face social stigmas, says Beebe Spokesman Matt DeCample. While he says no child should be placed in a foster home with homosexuals, the Governor is "not prepared" to give an opinion on whether to let gays adopt.
Beebe says it "takes a while" to analyze possible constitutional problems with Senate Bill 959 and he has yet to decide if he would sign it if passed by the Arkansas House, so his loophole remains. The bill has passed the Senate.
A bill to prohibit smoking in the presence of foster kids was introduced, also intended to "protect the children." How bout smoking in the presence of any children, period? State Senator Percy Malone of Arkadelphia's bill didn't prohibit smokers from fostering, just from smoking in their presence. With 800 kids needing foster homes, we wouldn't want to eliminate all smokers as potential foster parents. As a compromise, smoking foster parents can't smoke in their presence. Fair enough?
Perhaps we can have gay foster parents if they promise not to have sex in the presence of fotster kids? Oh, that's right, despite all the evidence to the contrary, they think we're more likly to have sex with our foster kids than straight folks.
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