adoption rights

The U.S. has nearly 440,000 children in foster care, more than 117,000 of whom are waiting to be adopted.

While lawmakers are obsessed with gay couples, who’s thinking about the thousands of kids in the state’s foster care system?

The law would also allow adoption agencies to reject prospective gay parents for “religious” reasons.

“Same-sex couples would make it all about them. It’s not.”

Judge Mitchell Nance said he believes “under no circumstance” would “the best interest of the child be promoted by the adoption by a practicing homosexual.”

Because, “religious freedom” has never been about “best interests of the child.”

The law, however, does not allow same-sex partners to marry.

“Now these children will be able to claim the benefit of having both parents,” the judge said.

The decision does not give long-sought automatic recognition to the families of same-sex couples however.

Arkansas’ highest court will hear arguments over whether married same-sex couples can have the names of both spouses on their children’s birth certificate.