Sad.

I just read a post on the Arkansas Times blog (can be found here: http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/2008/12/child_welfare_crisis.aspx) about a recently published report from the Arkansas Advocates for Children's and Families detailing the tragic circumstances that many our state's children have been subjected to.

It's accounts like these that make me very sad that Proposed Initiative Act No. 1, which would allow homosexual couples and cohabitating couples to foster children, passed in our state.

I am a Christian and a follower of Jesus Christ. I believe the Bible. And I also believe that a vote against Proposed Initiative Act No. 1 isn't a vote that condones homosexuality. I don't think that a vote against the Act is a vote "for" homosexuality. It is a vote for children. I think that homosexual and cohabitating couples are just as capable as loving and caring for a child as married couples. Just because a couple is married doesn't mean that they can provide a stable and safe home for a child.

These are my opinions, my beliefs, and you don't have to share them. I just felt the need to express my viewpoint on this issue because I feel that the children in the care of the state of Arkansas deserve that.