A host of conservative and pro-family Christian organizations continue to register concerns over the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA). One (but not the only) concern has to do with the open-ended language of the FMA which liberals and conservatives agree will allow for civil unions and domestic partnerships for homosexuals.

Matt Daniels, who heads the Alliance for Marriage, the group which drafted the FMA, has made numerous public statements in support of civil unions, arguing that such arrangements should be available to all states.

The issue is further complicated by the fact that President George Bush has formally come out in support of granting legal rights in the form of civil unions (a quasi-marriage status) to sodomites. The FMA has been crafted to allow for such, thus making the FMA palatable for a wide range of politicians ranging from Left-wing Democrats to professing Christian Republicans who support the rights of sodomites to have a quasi-legal marital status.

In today’s Op-Ed for the Deluth Tribune, Andrea Lafferty of the Traditional Values Coalition offers her concerns over the pro-civil unions’ element of the FMA.

Of the five (Constitution, Democrat, Green, Libertarian, and Republican) ballot access qualified Presidential candidates (who have qualified for sufficient ballot access to potentially capture the Electoral College ballot) only home school father and candidate Michael Peroutka of the Constitution Party opposes giving any special legal marital-type privileges to homosexuals.