The Arkansas
Family Council announced Wednesday that the group will work
to place a measure on the 2008 statewide ballot to
amend the constitution to bar gays from adopting or
foster-parenting children. Council executive director
Jerry Cox told the Associated Press that the
proposition will be submitted to the governor's
office in the coming weeks but that a draft has not
been completed.
The state senate
passed a bill this year banning adoption by gays, but
the house judiciary committee rejected the measure. The
new legislation would reinstate a ban on gay foster
parents that the state supreme court overturned last
year, AP reports.
Placing a
proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot requires
gathering enough signatures to equal 10% of the ballots cast
in last year's gubernatorial election, about
78,000. (The Advocate)