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My only criticism is that AFF did not start this TV campaign until two days after early voting began. The ad should have been running over the weekend (like cereal and toy ads), during the times that kids and families are more likely to be watching.

Well I agree Vernal

BUT go give some money to Arkansas Families and you will see A LOT more of this ad.

Link to website in my name

No child should be punished making them be in the presents of homosexuals... they are weird and nobody want even to be around one....

chasv- you're the one who is weird. I wouldn't let a foster child get within 10 miles of you.

You need to get those lesions on your brain checked soon!

What an amazing, great ad! By far the best one I've seen this year!

I've been against this stupid move by the Cox people from the beginning, but I am very proud to be a "No on 1" person now. I wish I could go vote again!

That a way to go rockstar.
No child should be harmed mentally by living with homosexuals because we know they will brain wash the children as they grow up.

I have no idea where you get your "facts" chasv, but it is obviously not from a science book. Although I suspect you believe science is an instrument of the devil. A gay instrument at that. Probably a flute.

I just cannot understand why homo-phobes think about gay sex so much. Ithink they dwell on gay sex much more than gays and lesbians themselves. It seems odd.

It seems odd to even mention this, but just for clarity: I'm a happily married man. My wife and I are expecting. And if something terrible happens to us, I certainly can think of many gay/lesbian homes I would prefer to take in our children compared to the hate-filled homes of people like chasv.

Do the morally right thing in regards to this Initiative.

Sound Policy's post made me think that if the state has to spend time questioning all the unmarried adults who happen to live together, single and married whackjob applications will slip through unnoticed. - One more reason to vote No on Initiated Act 1.

Oh, and also the fact that the only homes these kids would have under Initiated Act 1 would be imaginary homes because we're about 2000 homes short now.

This is a no brainer moral issue about children's welfare peddled as Christians protecting kids from immorality. It disgusts me that the Arkansas Family Council would even dare to promote such an agenda at this cost to every child in this state.

Secondary to me is the cost to all the people who do put children first, like unmarried grandmas who will be unsuitable to raise their grandchildren anymore if the Family Council gets its way.

I have little money to give, but with the high price these kids will pay if it passes, I can't afford not to do something about this. I've been emailng and talking to people about this issue for a long time. AFF has volunteer needs, as well as whatever outrageous amount of money it takes to run this ad on tvs throughout the state.

I guess when you have no sense of decency or morals you can use children to do your shilling for you.

chasv and strangelove, can you please explain how Dick Cheney's daughter happens to be gay?
Dick and his wife are heterosexual, but their daughter is gay, has a partner, and a baby.
How many letters have you written, how many e-mails have you sent, how many phone calls have you made, asking Ms. Cheney to give her baby to a straight couple?
Come on, tell us how much hell you have raised about Republican Cheney's daughter.
Hypocrits.
You betcha.

I'd like to compare Prop 1 to a scene from the recent Simpsons movie.

Picture it, Springfield, 2007. Bart and Homer are sitting in a boat in the middle of the lake fishing. Homer decides to drop a bug zapper into the water to catch A fish. In the process, HUNDREDS of fish are now dead and floating in the water. Homer reaches down and pulls ONE fish out of the water to eat. Seem like a waste?

This is exactly what is happening with Prop 1. Homer is the group that wrote this proposition, the bug zapper is the proposition, and the fish are all the non-married couples in Arkansas. The one Homer pulled out of the water was the one same-sex couple whom they were trying to prevent from adopting or fostering in the first place.

Even if I agreed with chasv and Strangelove, which I most certainly do NOT, I would vote against this bill. It's similar to taking a bug zapper on a fishing trip, or a hand grenade on a quail hunt. It's too broad and eliminates too many people.

But then again this isn't about the children: it's about legeslating someones morality. And you, Strangelove, have the AUDACITY to accuse us of legeslating on the backs of children. Mote and beam, my friend, mote and beam.