FIC Blog

What We’re Up Against
The Connecticut Post is running a fawning, puff-piece series on Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy’s first year in office. The series inadvertently reveals what we are up against–and why Family Institute of Connecticut is so crucial to faith and family in our state.
There is, for instance, this in the first installment:
[Dannel Malloy] remembers [...]

In the three years since one judge redefined marriage for all of Connecticut we have faced blatantly unconstitutional attacks on religious liberty and shocking new assaults on parental rights. The media downplays all of it. But they at least get one big thing right:
“We forced the legislature to pass the strongest religious liberties guarantees against [...]

FIC Action’s update on forced pro-gay indoctrination at Hartford Public High School and a response to the Hartford Courant. Read it here.

On September 16th a Hartford jury acquitted a blogger of threatening and inciting violence against three state officials because, they told the media, the prosecution did not meet its burden of proof.
This blog post is not about that. It is about the laughingly incomplete description of S.B. 1098, the 2009 Bishop Removal Bill, given by [...]

A blog run by former employees of the Hartford Courant is reporting that Susan Campbell, Rick Green and Helen Ubinas will no longer be columnists at the paper, but will continue on in the general assignment/analysts category.
FIC has tangled with all three of them in the past. Susan Campbell, in particular, was our longest-running journalistic [...]

Neither FIC, nor FIC Action, nor FIC Action Committee had anything to do with an alleged push-poll which supposedly targeted Len Suzio’s opponent in the 13th Senate District’s Feb. 22nd special election. FIC Action Committee endorsed Suzio, a longtime  pro-life activist, in an email on January 18th and promoted his candidacy again in emails on [...]

(Below is a slightly edited version of yesterday’s FIC e-mail alert -PW)
Second Circuit Denies Expedited Appeal
When Enfield changed its mind last week and voted to appeal a temporary injunction against holding graduations at First Cathedral, FIC noted that
according to The Courant, the BOE is still not seeking to move this month’s graduations back to First [...]

The Courant Ed Page is right when it says on its facebook that obvious bias is the Ed Page’s job. But there is a difference between the bias of advocating for a position and the bias of making misrepresentations–and The Courant’s bias on Enfield is very much the latter.
We have already discussed why the media [...]

We told you last week that we would have more to say about Courant columnist Rick Green’s lazy excuse for journalism. Late Friday night we posted a full response to Green on FIC Blog:
Rick Green thinks he has exposed a secret conspiracy between FIC and Greg Stokes. Instead, he has exposed himself to be a [...]

(Below is the text of today’s FIC email alert. Two additional points: 1) This lawsuit is actually not over; Enfield’s vote was only to not appeal the judge’s ruling. 2) I will discuss what this means on the Dan Lovallo program today at 5 pm. - PW)
Twenty-one years ago today a young man stood athwart [...]