FIC Blog

FIC Blog has had occasion over the years to lament the sleazy anti-family billboards along our state’s highways. Gov. Rell has now issued an executive order halting new contracts to build or maintain billboards on state property and is submitting legislation to prevent existing contracts from being renewed once they expire. Gov. Rell apparently sees the […]

The targeting of Connecticut’s youth has become a major focus of our state’s pro same-sex “marriage” activists. The Family Institute of Connecticut is determined to see that our youth are served-and not confused-by our state’s educational institutions. But to take up that fight we must first understand the great influence our opponents already wield.
Feb. 13th, […]

The day began with a standing-room-only press conference on Rep. Art O’Neill’s homeschooling bill. It ended with all three of the bills FIC Action supports getting raised in committee. Our concepts on homeschooling, fatherlessness and a variation on parental notification were all raised for public hearing by the select committee on children.
Raising these bills is just the […]

Next week marks the start of the 2008 session of the Connecticut General Assembly—and anti-family lobbyists are already launching new attacks on faith and family! But their attacks are being met by a new force that has risen up in the last few years to fight for our values: Family Institute of Connecticut Action.
Here are […]

It’s bad for the environment:
Scientists have quantified for the first time the extent to which divorce damages the environment. The researchers found that the combined use of electricity across the two new households created rose 53% while water use was up by 42%.
Across America – one of 12 countries studied – divorced households used 73 […]

The Family Institute of Connecticut has noted for years the social costs of family decline. Now it is getting so bad that even the mainstream media and our state government are beginning to connect the dots. From a November 21st Courant story:
Treau Bemis was first. The 2-year-old Groton girl died in September after her mother’s fiance, […]

In these politically correct days, who could argue against “tolerance”? It rolls off the tongue so easily - like motherhood and apple pie – and evokes heart-stirring imagery such as the Statue of Liberty beckoning unto the people of all nations who are “yearning to be free”. 
Sadly we have lost our understanding of the word. […]

“Marital Priorities Change” yawns the headline in yesterday’s Courant. As noted by Maggie Gallagher, the Pew Research Center had a more descriptive headline for its own poll: “As Marriage and Parenthood Drift Apart, Public Is Concerned About Social Impact.” An excerpt from the AP story that ran in the Courant:
NEW YORK - The percentage of […]

Yet another oft-cited argument by SSM supporters is that homosexuals have an inherent predisposition towards the behavior. They claim that it is an innate, inborn quality, perhaps a consequence of some as yet undetermined genetic factor. In any event, having made this claim, they proceed to assert such behavior ought not to be deemed immoral, […]

Last Christmas I criticized the anti-Christian slant of the Courant’s holiday editions. So when our local paper of record makes it a point to honor–rather than undermine–a traditional celebration it seems only fair to give it equal notice. And the Courant’s Father’s Day edition is definitely worthy of notice.
Yesterday’s paper starts off right by seeking out […]