FIC Blog

Last week we told you that confirmation votes like Judge Lubbie Harper’s “are usually rubber-stamp affairs” and that “even a higher-than-normal ‘no’ vote on Harper’s confirmation” would send a message. That is what FIC Action just accomplished today.
As expected, Judge Harper was confirmed by the legislature. But a careful observer can gauge the progress FIC [...]

Family Institute of Connecticut fully endorses the statement of my esteemed predecessor, Brian Brown, on the AZ shootings and the SSM debate:
Gay-marriage advocates and I have deep, real and important moral disagreements about the nature, meaning and purpose of marriage (and sex and gender, most likely!). If the expression of these views makes anyone feel [...]

Two years ago last Sunday the Connecticut Supreme Court undemocratically imposed same-sex “marriage.” Within six months state residents faced the worst attacks on religious liberty in living memory. And if you think the worst is behind us, you haven’t met Julie Kieras.
Julie was a language arts teacher in Windsor Locks who had recently been named Teacher [...]

Remember when FIC forced DCF to break its links to “gay Bible” workshops last year and the Courant botched the story:
The inevitable Susan Campbell column for next Sunday practically writes itself (”Why can’t those poor dears at FIC escape their misbeggoten fundamentalist upbringing and go on to write feminist dribble like me?”)
She’s so predictable:
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The Courant did run a correction last Saturday on its botched story  falsely reporting that FIC had asked DCF to remove website links to “churches that welcome gays.” And then they botched the correction, saying that the article incorrectly stated that FIC sought the removal of gay-friendly “religious organizations,” rather than “churches.”
On Sunday, the paper ran a [...]

So the Courant writes this story saying that FIC made DCF remove website links to “churches that welcome gays” and you can guess what happened next. Colin McEnroe’s already out of the gate with his usual combination of debating points (does Faithworks violate the First Amendment?) and smarminess (FIC’s the “Washington Nationals” of political activism, even though [...]

Several recent missteps by Connecticut’s senior U.S. Senator have caused some to question his integrity. Today, it’s my turn:
Peter Wolfgang, who leads the Family Institute of Connecticut, said that Dodd’s reversal was motivated by political expediency.
“He took a position against same-sex marriage when he was running for president because that was the most politically palpable [...]

While it’s certainly true that each person can believe what they will, according to the dictates of their conscience, it’s always interesting to observe people who attempt to misappropriate the label of Christianity when their system of belief actually contradicts the teachings of Christ and His apostles. This is often the case with liberals who [...]

If you’re an Obot, you might be thinking that June is meant to be LGBT Pride Month.

But for thousands of years, it has been celebrated as a time that signifies the special nature of the union between male and female. Even beyond our Judeo-Christian traditions, the ancient peoples of the earth recognized this time of [...]

We live in troubling times. Throughout the United States – at the local, state and federal levels of government – assaults continue upon our religious freedom. Recent examples include:

Enforcement action by San Diego County against a local pastor and his wife, for daring to hold a bible study group in the privacy of their home. [...]