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We are blessed to live in a country that cherishes freedom - and that includes your freedom to choose with whom to associate and with whom to trade. Even when political machinations may tend to thwart the will of the people, the power of how you choose to spend your money can be an effective [...]

It’s been an enormously busy time at FIC, but I want to assure all of you who asked that we are committed to firing up FIC Blog again. Among its many features, FIC Blog serves as a sort of “virtual archive” of FIC’s activities and media appearances–and in the last few months we’ve done more [...]

While the political world swirls in Obama mania, there hasn’t yet been much media attention upon the outcome of the marriage amendments in Arizona, California, and Florida. Nevertheless it appears that supporters of traditional family values can find reassurance in all of these contests. Here are the results as they currently stand this morning:

Arizona Proposition [...]

From our Oct. 14th e-mail alert:
Last Friday [Oct. 10th] four judges on Connecticut’s Supreme Court undemocratically forced same-sex “marriage” on our state. Our best—very likely our only—chance to restore marriage and self-government in Connecticut is for the majority of state voters to vote “Yes” on Question 1 on Election Day (Nov. 4th) to have a [...]

Below is our Tuesday e-mail alert (minus the links), which  has since sparked on an online reaction from Courant columnist Rick Green. We’ll have more on this when time allows:
The pro same-sex “marriage”/pro-abortion forces who wield inordinate influence over Connecticut’s politics and culture are legion. And they are coalescing around a campaign to stop the [...]

FIC sent an e-mail alert to our membership Tuesday morning urging them to support the con con campaign. We got a call from the AP five minutes later and the result is the article that appeared yesterday in several state papers:
Hartford - Tens of thousands of dollars are being raised in an effort to persuade Connecticut voters [...]

View FIC Action Committee’s press release on the CT primaries here.
Our members received a more detailed analysis in their in-boxes yesterday. As for the Courant article referenced in the press release, here’s the money quote:
The candidates both have impressive resumes and share a mainstream Republican philosophy of fiscal conservatism, though Witkos hews closer to the [...]

The MA house of representatives has voted to repeal a law that helped prevent their supreme court from forcing same-sex “marriage” on the rest of the country. From today’s Courant:
Opponents of gay marriage in Connecticut and Massachusetts denounced the House’s vote. Peter Wolfgang, executive director of the Family Institute of Connecticut, said the action will [...]

Campaign Pete wants FIC Blog’s readers to remember next Tuesday’s primaries. (FIC Action Committee will have more to say about them soon.) Excerpts from Pete’s comments in another thread:
A bunch of primaries take place in two weeks, on August 12th involving Pro-Marriage candidates, including:
(R) Witkos - Canton, State Senate
(D) Mazurek - Wolcott, State Rep
(R) Noujaim [...]

Of course, it always had national attention…from same-sex “marriage” proponents. Tim Gill and other out-of-state “gay” multimillionaires have sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to Connecticut to help our opponents redefine marriage. But our pro-marriage allies have now taken an interest as well:
While most of [the National Organization for Marriage's] efforts between now and the November vote [...]