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Gets Extension for Anti-adoption Signatures

Arkansas Group
Gets Extension for Anti-adoption Signatures

A proposed measure prohibiting unmarried but cohabitating couples from adopting or fostering children in Arkansas has fallen short of the 61,794 signatures necessary to get it placed on the November ballot, according to a press release from the Arkansas News Bureau.

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A proposed measure prohibiting unmarried but cohabitating couples from adopting or fostering children in Arkansas has fallen short of the 61,794 signatures necessary to get it placed on the November ballot, according to a press release from the Arkansas News Bureau.

The Family Council Action Committee has been spearheading the initiative and has been granted an extension of 30 days to gather additional signatures. It still needs about 4,000 valid signatures to get the initiative on the ballot. The group originally submitted the required number of signatures, but only 57,888 were certified as valid. FCAC executive director Jerry Cox plans to obtain the missing signatures, and 10,000 more, in part by canvassing large churches to gain support.

According to the group, gathering signatures for this measure is more difficult than the signature-gathering effort four years ago to amend Arkansas's constitution to ban gay marriage, which passed easily, because the adoption issue is more complicated and difficult to explain.

In working on this campaign, the FCAC is working to "blunt a homosexual agenda," Cox said. (The Advocate)

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