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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 […]

So I’m on Dan Lovallo’s program last Friday talking about the scientific break-though of embryonic-like stem cells being created without having to kill human embryos (”When I read the news I thought of the Family Institute of Connecticut” Dan graciously told his audience) and Dan asks me about the media factor in all of this. […]

A reporter for a local Christian paper tells me we had between 250 and 300 people at Wednesay’s event; the mainstream media, naturally, puts the number lower. Regardless, the Family Institute of Connecticut’s office has been overwhelmed these last 48 hours by people calling to tell us the Rally for Liberty was a success.
In what may be the […]

I’ve noted before the case of the 15 year-old West Hartford runaway who appears to have been the victim of a statutory rape that went unreported by Planned Parenthood (where she went for her abortion). The incident is a sad reminder that Connecticut is one of only six states that has yet to pass a […]

“From Both Sides, A Bid To Change Abortion Debate” reads the top headline of today’s front page. It’s not hard to understand why one side is seeking to change the debate:
And Democrats have been losing the abortion fight, at least at the margins, for some time.
“They sense they’re out of step with the electorate,” said […]

The following editorial, “DELUCA: Senate rulers wield yardsticks,” appeared in the Republican-American on June 15th and is reprinted here with permission.
Sen. Louis C. DeLuca did the right thing by resigning as minority leader. His private conduct cast serious doubt on his ability to lead. However, it appears the Democrats and the news media aren’t going to […]

Articles in several of today’s newspapers summing up the 2007 regular legislative session–which ended at midnight–are notable for what they are refusing to mention: the effective defeat of this year’s same-sex “marriage” bill.
This piece by the AP, for instance, gives a run down of the “winners” and “losers” of the 2007 session. Such burning issues as “elephants” and […]

It’s not yet certain, but lobbying by pro-family voters may have doomed this year’s transgendered special rights bill:
The proposal had made its way through several legislative committees earlier this year and was approved by the state Senate May 23. But after nearly three hours of House debate Monday afternoon, the bill was set aside, a […]

FIC’s May 23rd Rally for Marriage was a success, drawing our largest-ever weekday crowd. Roughly 300 pro-family citizens like you attended the event to show their support for marriage protection and to support a rare constitutional opportunity to let the people decide.
The Rally began with an invocation by Pastor William Ashburn of the First Assembly of God […]

Is there a pro same-sex “marriage” commentator in Connecticut more confused than Susan Campbell? In her latest diatribe she says the “base argument” against same-sex “marriage” is tradition (a point explicitly refuted in Maggie Gallagher’s testimony before the Judiciary Committee), that pro-family activists ”seem wont” to rely on scripture (ignoring several years worth of arguments by FIC based entirely […]