CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA: NO FMA THIS CONGRESS?

[Human Events interviews Sandy Rios of CWA. Much kung fu FMA fighting.]

What issues are at the top of the agenda for Concerned Women for America this year?

RIOS: If you mean issues, rather than legislative items, that's a little different. But I would say about issues, on top of the heap would have to be homosexual marriage. ...

There is a lot of talk around Washington about where conservatives are going to go in terms of promoting the Federal Marriage Amendment. Different language is being proposed. Where does Concerned Women for America come down on that? Do you want to see a marriage amendment that would prohibit so-called civil unions in the states or would you accept a Federal Marriage Amendment that basically just denies the word "marriage" to homosexual unions but allows them to be legalized by the states?

RIOS: We are not satisfied with a weak amendment. The case I continue to make is what it would be like if we were sitting here, 150 years ago, and we said that we wanted an amendment to outlaw slavery, but if states want to have "owned people," they just have to call it chattel. Just don't call it marriage, or don't call it slavery. An amendment that protects marriage in name only is troublesome to us and does not go far enough. . . . I would also like to say that we don't think an amendment has a chance of passing at all in this Congress. And so we prefer holding back a little bit until we have a different Congress, different people sitting there before this issue's even raised. ...

Your position, and the Concerned Women for America's position, was that if you are actually going to go forward and actually amend the Constitution of the United States on this issue, it should ban civil unions, which are in fact, as Howard Dean pointed out, marriage in another name?

RIOS: California just granted civil unions and they said they're granting all the same privileges and benefits of marriage. The only difference is the name. ...

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