I Guess Those Foster Kids Didn't Really Want A Roof Over Their Heads...

A group of Arkansas crazy Christians have decided that they need to pass a state law that would ban "unmarried couples" from being foster parents. The law does not discriminate against straight or gay couples, simply unmarried couples that live together.

Arkansas already has an official state policy barring unmarried couples that live together from being foster parents, so this balot initiative law is an attempt by the Christian scare bears to solidify the policy. What's funny about this is that these "Pro-family" bull shiters want to say that they are only trying to promote a family positive environment, meanwhile denying many family positive homes the opportunity to fost a child simply because the man and woman, or woman and woman, or man and man aren't married.

The logical thing would be to allow any stable, happy, healthy couple the opportunity to foster a child. The Christian freaks like to pretend that married couples, simply by the fact that they are married, allows them a moral superiority, which is really what's behind all the anti-marriage BS in the country right now. If the gays can be married, that one less thing uppity Christian heteros can look down their noses at us for.

I dated a guy in college that was raised in the foster care system. The fact that most of these foster families are Christian Scare Bears really scared him, because he grew up in homes that constantly told him about how evil he was. Combine that with the knowledge and abandonment issues that foster children already experience, and you have a recipe for bad mental health.

All I'm saying is foster homes and adoptive parents should always be considered on a case-by-case basis. There are no hard-set rules about who will be good parents and who won't. There never have been. But its laws like this that show exactly the unintended consequences of the Crazy Chrisitans efforts, and I hope some day soon they start to focus their efforts on how to make their own lives better before trying to decide for someone else what is good for them.