... recognize any legal arrangement identical or substantially similar to marriage. Jerry Cox, president of the Arkansas Marriage Amendment Committee, which collected more than 200,000 signatures to get the proposal on the ballot, said he was pleased ...

... after 200,000 Arkansans signed petitions seeking its consideration. John Thomas, spokesman for the Arkansas Marriage Amendment Committee, said the amendment's passage was due in large part to support from churches and other civic groups ...

... around the country are looking at the question and the possible challenges," Sklar said. Cox said the Arkansas Marriage Amendment Committee, which led the petition drive to put the measure on the ballot, has scaled back to one staffer but will ...