History shades Arkansas’ gay marriage debate
Fifty-seven years after federal troops escorted nine black students into Little Rock’s Central High School as a white mob jeered, Arkansas again finds itself in the center of a debate over civil rights. This time, the issue is gay marriage, but the 1957 desegregation crisis still casts a shadow.
Arkansas plans to appeal same-sex marriage ruling
Lawyers for the state followed through with their promise to appeal a judge’s decision overturning the constitutional amendment overwhelmingly passed by voters in 2004 banning gay marriage.