What is more important: enacting law to stop Alabama state sponsored child abuse or enacting a law to stop cockfighting?

21 Jan 2012 - MONTGOMERY, Alabama - According to an Associatied Press story the Alabama Legislature will introduce a Bill in the session that begins Feb. 7 to increase the penalty for cockfighting.

The bill will be sponsored by Republican Rep. Jim Barton of Mobile in the House and by Republican Sen. Cam Ward of Alabaster in the Senate. Sen. Ward was a cosponsor of the ACFA in the 2011 session.

ALFRA is not saying a cockfighting bill is not necessary. ALFRA is asking our Legislators which bill is more important to society.

Why are we not reading stories published by the AP about our Legislators working to saferguard fit parents and children's rights to First Amendment freedom of associations?

If the state Legislature does not pass the ACFA this session but passes the following Bill, we all will know what is more important to our elected officials rather than stopping state sponsored child abuse.

Read the AP story here.