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Mar 12, 2007
Quickie Link: Committee Advances Foster Parent Bill
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By vanrozenheim
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(Little Rock, USA) - A Senate committee has advanced a bill to reinstate Arkansas' ban on gay foster parents. The proposal would also ban gays and lesbians from adopting children. The legislation was forwarded Monday by the Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor. The bill would also prohibit cohabiting couples from either fostering or adopting children. Arkansas had a ban on gay foster parents, but that prohibition was thrown out by the state Supreme Court in June. Four people sued after the policy was put in effect in 1999 and the state Child Welfare Board dropped the policy after losing a court fight in 2004.
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