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Act 1 adoption law elicits pros, cons

Panel gauges voter-OK’d restrictions

By Tracie Dungan

Professor Mark Strasser (left) of Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio, and professor Lynn Wardle of Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School in Provo, Utah, take part in a symposium on adoption restrictions Thursday at the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville.

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Professor Mark Strasser (left) of Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio, and professor Lynn Wardle of Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School in Provo, Utah, take part in a symposium on adoption restrictions Thursday at the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville.

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More than 100 University of Arkansas law students heard the legal, moral and social pros and cons of the state’s year-old adoption-limit measure during a symposium Thursday.

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This article was published November 6, 2009 at 6:39 a.m.

Arkansas, Pages 15 on 11/06/2009

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TheBatt says...

"but it does infringe on their right to have meaningful relationships,”" WHAT???!!! I guess the definition of "meaningful relationship" has been so watered down as to mean nothing.

It is bad enough that these children come from broken homes. They don't need to face that yet again because of adoption by non-committed MARRIED couples. While legal marriage is no guarantee, non-committed and non-legally bound adoptive "parents" is just ASKING for trouble, and sets yet a further bad example to perpetuate the cycle.

And lets be totally honest - this isn't about "meaningful relationships", it is about homosexuals that don't want to have to live by the conditions they bring on themselves by engaging in relationships that are not representative of the God-designed Family. It is about systematic destruction of the Family Unit - a foundational tool of Marxism.

November 6, 2009 at 8:15 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

kcjenkins says...

The simple but painful fact is that if a couple can not 'commit' to each other enough to marry, how can they be trusted with the long-term commitment to raise a child? This is about what is best for the CHILD, not about the wishes of the adults. I desperately want to increase the number of children who are adopted. I was adopted, thank God. But putting children into unstable homes, with people who are not even committed to their own relationship, is very risky for the child.

November 6, 2009 at 7:22 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

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