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that there is no correlation between the health, welfare, and safety of foster children and the blanket exclusion of any individual who is a homosexual or who lives in a household with a homosexual." The court also found that the policy may have hurt children by "excluding a pool of effective foster parents"; children raised by gay parents are not more likely to have "psychological, behavioral, or academic" problems; and that there is "no factual basis for saying that heterosexual parents might be better able to guide children through adolescence than gay parents." The circuit court ruled against the board, and the board appealed from that decision to the Arkansas Supreme Court.
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After hearing extensive evidence and expert testimony about the scientific research on lesbian and gay parents, the circuit court found that the board had no factual support for its belief that gay people were less fit to be foster parents. In particular, the court found that the facts demonstrate
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The supreme court upheld the circuit court's decision because, without any factual basis for the board's policy, the board had usurped the legislature's role and had attempted to enforce a standard of morality." The board's policy therefore violated the
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In 1999 the Arkansas Child Welfare Agency Review Board established a policy that "no person may serve as a foster parent if any adult member of that person's household is a homosexual." The
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In 2007 the Arkansas House Judiciary Committee voted to reject SB 959, "a bill that would have banned gay people and most unmarried heterosexual couples who live together from
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Arkansas Department of Human Services and Child Welfare Agency Review Board, Appellants, v. Matthew Lee Howard, Craig Stoopes, Anne Shelley, and William Wagner, Appellees.
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then sued the board in the Circuit Court of Pulaski County on behalf of William Wagner, Matthew Lee Howard, and Anne Shelley—three adults who wanted to serve as
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but were rejected under the policy. Howard was a teacher who was already raising two children with his same-sex partner of nineteen years, Shelley was a
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who wanted to serve as a foster parent, and Wagner was a married heterosexual whose gay son sometimes lived at his home.
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filed suit in state court on behalf of several Arkansas families challenging Act 1 as
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The bill would have been an end-run on the Supreme Court decision in
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The trial court held the policy unconstitutional in
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Arkansas Supreme Court
367 Ark. 55
238 S.W.3d 1
2006 Ark. LEXIS 418
No. 60CV-99-9881
Hannah
Corbin
Imber
Brown
Corbin
Robert L. Brown
adoption
LGBT rights
367 Ark. 55
238 S.W.3d 1
Arkansas Supreme Court
unanimously
gay
foster parents
ACLU
foster parents
lesbian
separation of powers
adopting
Arkansas Proposed Initiative Act No. 1
ACLU
unconstitutional
Arkansas Supreme Court

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