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We expect it from left wing bloggers or the Courant’s Susan Campbell. But Chris Powell? Below is the letter I submitted to the Manchester Journal Inquirer on April 30th, which the JI published yesterday:
 
Chris Powell should check his facts before defaming the one group that shares his concern for “arresting the breakdown of the family” […]

The lead op-ed on the front page of the Courant’s April 27th Sunday Commentary section was, of course, yet another article for same-sex “marriage“:
Their anecdotes revealed common problems. For example, same-sex couples are often denied health benefits because of a provision in the federal Defense of Marriage Act. In numerous situations, hospital or social services […]

It’s also said that gay marriage will eventually lead to polygamy and worse. This argument is without even the barest shred of merit.
–Genghis Conn on CT Local Politics, March 20, 2007
That didn’t take long. Barely a year after our opponents’ failed attempt to shout down the obvious truth that same-sex marriage could lead to polygamy, Connecticut’s […]

First there was the typically overwrought pro sex-ed Susan Campbell column:
Connecticut is one of the bluest states imaginable, yet public discussion about sex education in schools can easily jettison us back to the days of the Scopes trial, when fiery preachers railed against modernity, and movie theaters were considered Satan’s temple…
Yet the opposition shouts down […]

Our opponents are nothing if not tenacious–and they have friends in high places. A front page above-the-fold article in today’s Courant alleging discrimination against same-sex civil unions by H&R Block could revive the pro same-sex “marriage” bill that died in Judiciary on Monday. Interestingly, most of the Courant’s readers who have posted comments about the article–even […]

The increasingly resource-strapped Hartford Courant still fields an impressive team of reporters to cover the state Capitol–and yet, not a single one of them could be bothered to cover yesterday’s Catholic Awareness Day events. The paper’s print edition could not even be bothered to run the AP story covering the biggest annual legislative event by the state’s […]

Two months ago The Hartford Courant ran a story promoting t-shirts and onesies with the slogan “marriage is so gay,” the sales of which helped fund Love Makes a Family. Yet supporting the pro same-sex “marriage” group’s year-end fundraising was just the start for The Courant. Now the newspaper is trying to help Love Makes […]

My wife submitted an op-ed to the Courant last October on the Connecticut Supreme Court’s pending ruling in Kerrigan, the same-sex “marriage” case. “Not newsworthy,” they told her. She re-submitted it after Susan Campbell’s Dec. 30th column on the same topic. No response from the Courant.
Perhaps the Courant meant to say that Kerrigan op-eds are not newsworthy […]

Judging by the Courant’s news sections, you would never guess that Connecticut may be on the verge of a court-ordered radical re-definition of marriage. For months now the paper has made no mention of the Kerrigan case. And, of course, it ignored FIC’s Rally for Liberty, which brought 300 people to the state Capitol on […]

Last September 300 people attended an FIC rally on a Wednesday morning at the state Capitol to protest the Connecticut Supreme Court’s pending same-sex “marriage” ruling. The Courant ignored it.
Last Saturday, about two dozen activists held a few events around the Capitol targeting “apathy” toward AIDS. The Sunday Courant’s coverage of it appeared front page […]