Yesterday I talked about Arkansas’ first-ever legislative fiscal session, which officially convenes on February 8 at 12 p.m. While it’s true that we don’t know exactly what to expect, we do know that one important issue will get some attention: the Arkansas Lottery.
In November of 2008, Arkansans voted to institute annual legislative sessions—meaning that, henceforth, the legislature would go from meeting every other year to every year. In less than a month, we’re going to see the results of that vote.
When we defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman back in 2004, “progressives” shook their heads and figured that such a vote was par for a backward place like Arkansas. Then Michigan did it, and even Oregon. In all, forty states, one way or another, now define marriage as the union of a man and a woman.