Arkansas Families First needs help

In terms of proposals on ballots this election, California is getting much of the attention.  I certainly hope and pray that prop 8 is voted down, and I have donated what I can to it, but I’d also like to bring another proposed initiative going up for a vote.

In Arkansas, Act 1 on the ballot is a proposal to ban all unmarried people from being foster or adoptive parents.  This started a couple of years ago when a gay foster parent ban was struck down by the supreme court.  Soon after, legislators attempted to make it a constitutional amendment, which never passed.

Now John F. Thomas (I have no idea if his middle name actually begins with F, but there is simply an explicative I cannot help but insert in his name) is the vice-president of the Arkansas Family Council which gather signatures to get this initiative on the ballot.  Since it leaves out any mention of gay parents, and is a blanket ban of anybody who is not married, it has not been struck down as an unconstitutional measure. 

Arkansas Families First is a group working endlessly against this initiative.  They are fundraising, protesting, canvassing, phone banking, you name it.  Every little bit can help.  If you live in or near Arkansas, consider helping with any of the suggestions on this page.

If you do not live in Arkansas, <a href="http://arkansasfamiliesfirst.org/help/donate/consider donating here.

Not only is this ban a ridiculous reinforcement of the idea that gays or unmarried people can never be decent parents, it also means that hundreds of children needing temporary or permanent homes in Arkansas will be denied them because of these bullshit standards about "what makes a family".

P.S.  Focus on the Family is all up in this shit, if it passes in Arkansas, don’t think it will be the last state that puts it on the ballot.