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A “gay nativity scene” at a church in California has been vandalized and we are immediately informed that it will be investigated as a hate crime.
A Bible-burning vandal damages New Haven’s Christmas tree–possibly soaking the holy book with something to increase the fire–and authorities call it “unfortunate.” A person deliberately crashes his car into Fairhaven’s [...]

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 [...]

Rhetoric aside, Sen. Lieberman has been no friend of social conservatives. Whether he was upholding the legality of partial-birth abortion or forcing the military to approve of homosexual activity, Connecticut’s retiring U.S. Senator has consistently opposed traditional values. But he has the opportunity to make one parting gesture for the pro-family cause.
Sen. Lieberman is the [...]

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

The article is here. FIC Action responds here.
Sen. Wikos’ proposed S.B. 428 is here. The Hartford Public High scenario was contemplated when the legislature codified the court ruling redefining marriage in Connecticut. An amendment to prevent this type of situation failed in 2009. That amendment was the basis of Sen. Witkos’ 2011 bill.
Once again, FIC’s predictions [...]

The Master’s School, a private Christian school in West Simsbury, is being pressured to accept homosexual activity because it allegedly encouraged a student to withdraw or face expulsion after she told administrators she is a lesbian. The public knows only her version of events as told in The Courant and elsewhere, the headmaster having declined [...]

The same party that passed the radical Bathroom Bill–which was opposed by several Democrats and every Republican–is now denouncing others as “extremist.” Read all about it here.

FIC Action response to the passage of Connecticut’s Bathroom Bill can be found here.

Judge confirmed despite objections to ruling
BY PAUL HUGHES
WATERBURY REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
03/17/2011
HARTFORD — State Rep. Alfred C. Adinolfi suspects a spot on the Supreme Court is a “political reward” for Appellate Judge Lubbie Harper Jr. for voting to legalize same-sex marriage.
Adinolfi, R-Cheshire, was among 20 representatives and senators who voted against Harper’s appointment to the state’s highest [...]