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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 […]

From today’s Courant:
The state Supreme Court’s new chief justice, Chase T. Rogers, will not preside over the most significant case to be heard by the court this year, in which eight couples are challenging the ban on same-sex marriage.
The landmark constitutional case, Kerrigan et al v. the state Department of Public Health, will be argued […]

The Sunday Courant ran a front page above-the-fold article on a UConn poll it sponsored which claims the state is evenly split on same-sex “marriage”:
Brian Brown, the executive director of the Family Institute of Connecticut, dismissed the poll results, saying the questions were skewed to draw a favorable response. Brown and other opponents of gay […]

The Church has rejected a “compromise” that would have made its hospitals complicit in providing chemical abortions. The pro-abortion attack on religious liberty is one of the hottest topics at our state capitol this year, but in a “don’t stir up the natives” move the Courant buries the news on page B10:
Despite continued Catholic opposition, the state […]

As reported in today’s Connecticut Post, some 30 clergy members rallied yesterday at the Capitol “in an attempt to increase pressure on lawmakers to approve a bill that would allow same-sex couples to marry.”
“We are here today to say to Governor Rell, if and when this bill comes before you, we expect you will reconsider […]

A story on the front page of today’s Life section reports uncritically on an event–ostensibly to prevent anti-gay bullying–occuring in the nation’s schools tomorrow. Courant staff writer Joann Klimkiewicz’s article does not quote a single critic of the event, makes no mention of the controversy in Danbury and even promotes the event’s website.
From Klimkiewicz’s story:
Some schools […]

The Courant ran a long front page story on Saturday highlighting the case of Becca, a 13 year old pro same-sex “marriage” activist in Windsor and the same-sex household in which she is being raised. (The front page helpfully points the reader to the accompanying Courant-made video, which is so lacking in balance that I thought I […]

Among our more vociferous critics the myth persists that FIC lives high on the hog off of “bigotry.” Here’s some comments posted on the Courant’s website in response to my wife’s op-ed:
All the denial in the world doesn’t change it, lady. You ARE ignorant, and a bigot. You and your husband just try to gild […]

The update is that there is no update–that is, no new information to reveal. But it’s been awhile since the issue was discussed on this blog and there are a few related media items worth mentioning.
There was Catholic Concerns Day, for instance. The Courant made the absurd claim that “about 100″ participated (the Post put the […]