More social engineering crap from the Far Right

I'm an economic populist first and foremost. But conservatives' social engineering bullshit is what often makes them fall down so hard that it's difficult not to call them fools to their faces.

An upcoming ballot proposal in Arkansas will let voters vote on whether to make it illegal for unmarried couples to become foster or adoptive parents. Seriously.

If Arkansas voters approve this referendumb, that would just be downright shameful. There's a shortage of potential foster and adoptive parents already. If this passes, that would make a lot of people ineligible to be adoptive parents who would have otherwise been considered suitable.

It also raises a serious question: Would unmarried people who have already adopted lose their adopted children?

What prompted this measure? Well, in 2006, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional for the state to bar someone from being an adoptive parent because they are gay. Because the Far Right hates gays, the new ballot measure was concocted as a method to circumvent this ruling (as gay marriage isn't legal in Arkansas).

Conservatives are so consumed by their hatred of gays that they're willing to do anything to make sure that ruling is thwarted, even if it means a majority of the people adversely affected by the referendum aren't gay.

This is so far over the top that I don't think it'll pass even in a state that's fairly conservative. Stranger things have happened than it passing, but by supporting the measure, conservatives are just looking every bit the fools that they've long appeared to be.

Talk about a bunch of obsessos. This is as silly as the Far Right's catatonic hatred of the poor circa 1995.

(Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080825/ap_on_re_us/gay_foster_ban)