[JURIST] Arkansas Circuit Judge Timothy Fox Wednesday declared that a state ban on placing foster children in a household with a gay member was unconstitutional. The Arkansas chapter of the ACLU brought the case, challenging a 1999 regulation that stated that gays cannot become foster parents, and foster children cannot be placed in any home with a gay household member. The judge found that the regulation did not accomplish the goal of the state Child Welfare Agency Review Board, which is to promote health, safety, and welfare of the child. Instead, he concluded that the regulation sought to regulate public morality, which was outside the boundaries of the agency. Read the decision here. AP has more. The ACLU offers additional material.