Right-wing referendumb passes in Arkansas

I guess in some states inalienable rights are alienable after all.

Arkansas is one of several states in the Mid-South that seems to have utterly missed out on last Tuesday's humiliation of the GOP and continues to get more right-wing. I want to talk about the economy, but as long as the dominionists clutter the ballot with social engineering garbage, I don't always get to do so.

In Arkansas, voters were confronted with a ballot measure to make it illegal for people who cohabitate to become foster or adoptive parents. Because conservatives hate gays, they supported this initiative because it would keep gays from adopting (as gay marriage isn't legal there). The measure, however, wasn't gay-specific. If it was, it would still be stupid. The new law would apply not only against gays but against unmarried people in general.

I figured there was no way in hell this was going to pass. I thought it would fail, and the Pat Robertson types would be rendered a crying mess.

Well, the referendum lost in several counties, but it was passed statewide.

After the old regulation was unanimously ruled unconstitutional by the Arkansas Supreme Court, do people really think the new law won't be overturned too?

All this in a state that already has a severe shortage of potential adoptive and foster parents.

How in the Wide, Wide World Of Sports did this referendumb actually pass? I know the dominionist underworld is stronger than you'd think in every state, and they tell people in church who and what to vote for. It's surprising that it's that powerful though.

In fact, I question the results of the election. A University of Arkansas poll found most voters opposed to the initiative.

So now the state of Arkansas is once again put in a position of probing citizens' private lives. All because of a few right-wing activists who wanted this bullshit on the ballot so badly - and because enough people were willing to listen to them.

(Source: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/9/9356/17632/46/657971;
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/us/politics/09arkansas.html)