Next Cultural Battleground: Gay Adoption
Sunday, December 7, 2008 3:43 AM
By Bonnie Miller Rubin, Chicago Tribune
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Anne Shelley and Dr. Robin Ross are unwinding after a jam-packed day of ferrying 4-year-old daughter Eva Mae from preschool to ice-skating lessons to speech therapy.
“It’s pretty much your mundane American family,” said Shelley, 46, over a dinner of barbecue at their comfortable home near the Ozarks.
But not everyone sees their domestic situation as a hefty slice of apple pie. Arkansas residents recently voted to ban people who are “cohabitating outside of a valid marriage,” as Shelley and Ross are, from being foster parents or adopting children as these women did.
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