Alliance for Marriage Also Supports Homosexual Civil Unions

TVC Warns State Pro-Family Groups

March 6, 2007 - Washington, DC – The chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition communicated with pro-family allies in key states concerning the Alliance for Marriage’s plan to bring its marriage amendment to state legislatures.

“The Alliance for Marriage gets it half-right when they defend marriage,” said TVC Chairman Rev. Louis P. Sheldon. “But then they go on to talk about the ‘right’ to civil unions. No true pro-marriage, religious conservative agrees with that.“This is the same approach which some well-intentioned people tried in Massachusetts with disastrous results. Civil unions are synonymous with homosexual marriage and to see them as some sort of compromise is delusional and naive.

“The Alliance for Marriage should either renounce its past support for civil unions or stay in Washington where its amendment has always been and will continue to be a non-starter. True grassroots religious conservative activists are battle-tested and they know that throwing homosexual marriage extremists a bone like civil unions does not keep them from attacking marriage.

“Most reasonable people realize that the battle against homosexual marriage, civil unions, domestic partnerships et al are one and the same fight. A superficial marriage victory which also established a right in the U.S. Constitution to civil unions, as AFM proposes, would, in fact, be a defeat for religious conservatives.”

Forty five states now ban homosexual marriage either by statute or constitutional amendment. Only three states – Connecticut, New Jersey and Vermont – allow civil unions.

“I am encouraging our allies in the states to be wary of AFM. If there was a ‘truth in labeling’ requirement for political groups, AFM would be forced to change its name to Alliance for Marriage and Civil Unions.”

Daniels and the Alliance for Marriage have been quoted regularly in the media as proponents of the right to homosexual civil unions:

“And I would caution against conflating civil unions with marriage.

“The American people are quite clear in the polling data; they believe that it's common sense; that marriage is a man and a woman; they want our laws to send a positive message to kids about that institution. But they are not unified on the subject of benefits, which is why it's proper for the democratic process as has happened in Connecticut to decide those issues.”

Matt Daniels, The Newshour, April 14, 2005

"Americans have always drawn a clear line between marriage and domestic partnerships and civil unions."

"If they (gay activists) are indeed winning the hearts and minds of Americans, the democratic process will allow for civil unions even if it prohibits gay marriage.”

Matt Daniels, USA Today, March 9, 2004

“The amendment would limit marriage to opposite-sex couples, but it would not out-law civil unions, which Daniels believes should be available to all states.”

The Battle Over Gay Marriage
Time Magazine, February 16, 2004

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