Judge overturns Arkansas’ adoption law
A Pulaski County circuit judge has overturned Arkansas’ law banning unmarried couples living together from adopting or fostering children.
Circuit Judge Chris Piazza said Initiated Act One, passed by voters in 2008, constituted an unwarranted invasion of privacy. The law effectively banned gays from adopting or fostering children because they are unable to legally marry in Arkansas.
Judge Piazza said in his two-page ruling that people in “non-marital relationships” are forced to choose between becoming a parent and sustaining that relationship. Piazza wrote that the act was “especially troubling” in how it singled out the “politically unpopular group.”