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Latest report from the House floor is that the motion on the agenda to extract SB 959, the gay foster parenting and adoption ban, from committee was skipped over. They could come back to it. The betting is that the hateocrats will unleash an e-mail/phone/pulpit barrage on legislators over the weekend. We've already received some Astoturf work for the bill. One mass e-mail quotes extensively from a particularly graphic series of reader comments on the Arkansas Blog last summer. If I'm not mistaken, it was the string that occurred while I was on vacation and prompted Warwick to forcefully argue on my return for a registration process for comments. To shorten the thread to its essence: One reader said homosexuals engage in some unusual sexual activities. Another reader begged to inform the first reader that some heterosexuals engage in those very same activities. I'll leave the rest to your imagination.

Another high profile issue -- making a felony of animal cruelty -- died in Senate committee today. But so, too, did the sham bill the Farm Bureau tried to pass to make the lobby look less like ogres.

Posted by Max Brantley on March 30, 2007 11:24 AM |

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Well, it appears the Arkansas Family Council has let us down. It's has mostly lost all credibiltiy in the legislature by forcing issues down the throats of the legislature. I don't know much about the inner workings of the council but my opinion is their leaders are becoming an embarrisment to the conservatiive cause. Maybe they should evaluate themselves and disband.

Posted by: Arkdude [TypeKey Profile Page] | March 30, 2007 11:48 AM

Let's stay 'under-zealous' here until these suckers ADJOURN!! I like it better when we can see/hear JC himself (not THAT JC! ;>) then we know what he's doing - when they are the quietest is when I "feel very afraid."

Posted by: Larry [TypeKey Profile Page] | March 30, 2007 12:26 PM

Exactly when are they going to adjourn? This legislation is complete lunacy.

At what point will they stop?? First no gay marriage - at least this was voted on by the public.

Then - no straight unmarried couples or gay persons being able to foster or adopt.

What's next - they going to take away foster, adopted or natural children from gays and straights?

There is no end to this hatred. This legislation is meaningless.

We've got more important issues to deal with in this state than to try and attempt to legislate morality.

Posted by: Sherwood,AR [TypeKey Profile Page] | March 30, 2007 12:44 PM

Whew.... the registration requirement has been blamed on me in the past. But I don't think I was involved in that, errr, discussion.

I may have unfortunately advocated chopping off somebody's hangie down thing, but I didn't advocate doing THAT with it.

Posted by: Julianna [TypeKey Profile Page] | March 30, 2007 03:13 PM

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