The 88th General Assembly
has convened the 2012 fiscal session

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Yesterday's challenge of Act 1 makes the NYT, WP

Andrew DeMillo's Associated Press report of the Arkansas ACLU's challenge of the initiated act prohibiting unmarried cohabitants from adopting or serving as foster parents went national in this morning's paper, making the front sections of this morning's New York Times and Washington Post. The group filed the lawsuit on behalf of 29 adults and children from more than a dozen families, including a grandmother who lives with her same-sex partner of nine years and is the only relative able and willing to adopt her grandchild, who is now in state care. The law takes effect on tomorrow.