{"id":1971,"date":"2008-07-08T10:49:55","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T10:49:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-07-08T10:49:55","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T10:49:55","slug":"the-natural-state-arkansas-group-wants-to-ban-same-sex-couples-from-parenting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2008\/07\/the-natural-state-arkansas-group-wants-to-ban-same-sex-couples-from-parenting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Natural State?  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The restriction has faced opposition from the state\u2019s top officials, including <strong>Gov. Mike Beebe<\/strong> and <strong>Attorney General Dustin McDaniel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Ferguson, legal director for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aradvocates.org\/issues\/highlights_detail.asp?id=94\" target=\"_blank\">Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families<\/a> said, \u201cThis ballot measure goes way too far, and I think that\u2019s one of the reasons why they\u2019re having trouble getting signatures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The state Supreme Court recently struck down a state policy that specifically banned gays and lesbians from becoming foster parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homophobic citizens &#8211; hoping to bar lesbians and gay men from adopting or fostering children in Arkansas &#8211; filed petitions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[333,465,881],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Natural State? 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