Really?

Fifty-seven percent of voters in Arkansas supported a measure to prohibit unmarried sexual partners from adopting children or from serving as foster parents. The measure specifies that the prohibition applies to opposite-sex as well as same-sex couples.

With all of the children out there needing someone to love them? There are plenty of married, "normal" people out there that make lousy parents...

But...

Arkansas also approved a constitutional amendment to establish state lotteries to fund education, overturning a law set in 1874.

Yes...Arkansas desperately needs money for education...but I don't know if this is the way to get it.

I'm at a loss...

PREFACE TO FOLLOW UP: This might really bother some people out there, and I debated on putting it in. But afterall, this is my blog, and I can voice my opinions if I want to. I have been really bothered by some of the transitions this country is making. It is my right to serve my God in my life, and I don't want that right ever taken away...and it's because of that I do not feel comfortable taking the rights of others away. I make my own decisions about how I live...hopefully I will be a good example to others and will be able to be a witness to them when the Lord allows...but others can choose to make their decisions about how they live their lives as well and only God can say who is right and who is wrong...He will judge someday so it's not my place to judge today...with that said...

FOLLOW UP: The more I think about this post, the angrier I get. I realize I might be ruffling some feathers here, but I can't stop thinking about the children it could effect. The voters of Arkansas are saying that a couple that has been together for 10 years, decides to have a child, realizes they are "reproductively challenged", and wants to adopt cannot. It was their decision not to get married, and frankly it's none of my business. They can have a child together the old fashioned way, but the state of Arkansas will not let them take an "unwanted" child and bring it into their home because they are not married? They are not child molestors or drug users...they are not married. It is not the state's right to take the moral high ground and say that only married couples make good parents...it simply isn't true. If a married couple adopts, and then divorces, will the state take the child away? After all...they are not a married couple anymore. Pro-lifers should be outraged...you are encouraging a woman to have a child, but you are taking her other options away. You are limiting the people that could take in that child. According to the U.S. Census 2000, the National Survey of Family Growth (2002), and the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (2004), a ban on gay and lesbian individuals being allowed to foster could displace 9,000 to 14,000 children if pursued nationally. You're saying that up to 14,000 children would be placed back into the system, possibly a group home because of conservative opinions. I could not explain to a child that they must be removed from the home they have been in because some people don't agree with how their foster family lives. Some people don't agree with the Christian lifestyle either, so what if they said that Christians could not adopt children because some people didn't agree with their beliefs?