LGBTQ+ senior citizens in Arkansas face barriers to safe and stable housing • Arkansas Advocate
Fred McLean hoped his veteran status would help him and Donald Underwood obtain housing aid from the Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs when they got married in 2022. McLean has received health care from the VA for years but said all it ever gave Underwood was a plot in the state veterans’ cemetery, where McLean […]
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Arkansas town allows Nativity scene after public backlash
An Arkansas town will allow a Nativity scene erected in a park to remain after initially ordering it to be removed. The Christmas display in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, had been put up every year since 1950, but the mayor of the town ordered that it be removed this year after he said a resident threatened […]
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Controversy over nativity scene in Arkansas community
EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. (KNWA/KAIT) – A decades-long tradition in Eureka Springs almost ended over a debate about a nativity scene. According to content partner KNWA, the nativity scene at Basin Park has been put up by Beta Sigma Phi since 1950. The Great Passion Play is now in charge of the display. Executive Director Randall […]
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