FIC Blog

If you had followed Monday’s hearing via the bizarro world of liberal blogdom you’d have thought the day belonged to our opponents. But those who were there–or who watched it for themselves via CTN rather than relying on Mike Lawlor’s favorite propagandists–know differently. The Judiciary Committee’s March 26th public hearing on the bill to redefine […]

Below is a (slightly edited) post that I originally published on this blog on October 5, 2005. Ever since we transitioned to a more standard blog format I’ve noticed a number of comments from opponents indicating they don’t get what we’re trying to say on the topic of media bias. My hope is that re-posting this […]

It’s a curious thing, this absence of any mention of today’s Plan B hearing in the morning papers. How is it that the hottest controversy of the 2006 session rates no mention the day of the 2007 hearing for the same bill?
We sent an e-mail alert late Friday to our membership asking them to attend the hearing […]

Opponents in our last two threads say FIC is not truly pro-family unless we adopt the left-wing economic agenda. Now comes Courant columnist Susan Campbell with more free advice:
To people who worry that same-sex marriages threaten the institution, I have one powerful, life-changing word for you: adultery.
Pure and simple, what so often threatens traditional marriage […]

The Hartford Courant recently held a forum on political blogging in Connecticut…with a panel that didn’t include a single conservative. Don Pesci, one of our state’s best conservative bloggers, responds:
When the Hartford Courant recently hosted a forum on blogging, no conservative bloggers were represented on the panel that included McEnroe, introduced as a blogger, a […]

Predictably, the Family Institute will be engaging in some live-action trolling, showing up to try and get into the paper by taking advantage of Love Makes a Family’s quality advance work. If FIC showed up alone, the only need reporters would have to attend would be to document Lou DeLuca’s antics: the report would otherwise […]

It’s February in Connecticut, with all the usual signs to prove it: snow on the ground, kids home from school, and Courant columnist Susan Campbell raging against “bigots” who stand athwart her crusade to erode the meaning of marriage.
We’re accustomed to Campbell’s usual fallacies: pretending 1) that same-sex “marriage” has legal portability when it doesn’t; […]

Our opponents employ several different strategies to intimidate and silence those who dare to oppose them. Probably none backfires as much as the claim that anyone who knows marriage is between a man and a woman is a “bigot.” In fact, an advertisement currently running for the Dan Lovallo show quotes Brian saying as much. And two […]

Way back on Nov. 15, 2004 on this blog we took note of a column by Courant business columnist Dan Haar. According to Haar the 2004 results showed that “[a]s the nation lurched to the right on Election Day, Connecticut moved hard the other way,” and he smelled an opportunity:

Eventually, progressive-minded folks would settle — […]

Same-sex “marriage” and FIC Action’s Let the People Decide press conference were widely covered by local media this week. You can read the Courant’s story here, the Waterbury Republican-American here, the Associated Press here, the New London Day here, the Stamford Advocate here, the Manchester Journal Inquirer here, and the Meriden Record-Journal here.
During the Q and […]