Arkansas Supremes Uphold REAL Family Values

This diary is admittedly too short, and not what I expected to be posting as a first diary, but I think the importance of the news speaks for itself.

Today the Arkansas Supreme Court said "no" to religious bigots, ruling that gays and lesbians have as much right to be foster parents as anyone else.

http://www.nytimes.com/...

The court agreed with a lower court judge that the state's child welfare board had improperly tried to regulate public morality. The ban also violated the separation of powers doctrine, the justices said.

More below.

Good stuff. And this, though painfully obvious to most of us, still needs saying:

''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 resides in a household with a homosexual,'' Associate Justice Donald Corbin wrote in the opinion.

This is a heartening victory for civil rights and the Constitution, at a time when many of us are worried about the health and continued survival of both. But I think the biggest winners as a result of this ruling are the children who can now become part of families who love them.