Arkansas Supreme Court, on Thursday, overturned a state law barring same-sex couple from adopting. In a statement released from the high court, they stated that the law violated an individual's right to privacy. Seems that voters, in 2008, passed a law, called Act 1, that stated that folks had to give up their rights to a relationship, co-habitating, and included both hetero and homosexual partners, regardless of time together in order to adopt a child in the state of Arkansas.
On Thursday, the state Supreme Court overturned that ruling in a unanimous decision stating that, "act 1 directly and substantially burdens the privacy rights of ' opposite sex and same sex individuals' who engage in private consensual, sexual conduct in the bedroom by foreclosing their eligibility to foster or adopt children, should they choose to cohabitate with their sexual partner. the pressure on such partners to live apart, should they wish to foster or adopt children, is clearly significant."
FINALLY! Thank you for doing something right for the children!
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