Should Arkansas Pass the Unmarried Couple Adoption Ban?

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In the same way some people have tried to use same-sex marriage as a means of promoting a homosexual agenda, they are now using adoption and foster care. Children should not be used as pawns by any special interest group. Several states have already affirmed that homosexuals may legally adopt children or serve as foster parents. The voters of Arkansas need the opportunity to prevent this from happening in our state. 

Although he was speaking of same-sex marriage, Michelangelo Signorile wrote in Out magazine in 1996, "The trick is, gay leaders and pundits must stop watering the issue down--'this is simply about equality for gay couples'--and offer same-sex marriage for what it is: an opportunity to reconstruct a traditionally homophobic institution by bringing it to our more equitable queer value system ...a chance to wholly transform the definition of family in American culture....Our gay leaders must acknowledge that gay marriage is just as radical and transformative as the religious Right contends it is.”

Similarly, Paul Ettelbrick, professor of law at NYU and Columbia, writes:

“Being queer is more than setting up house, sleeping with a person of the same gender, and seeking state approval for doing so....Being queer means pushing the parameters of sex, sexuality and family, and in the process transforming the very fabric of society.”