Politics

Connecticut legislators have proposed a bill that promises to ban conversion therapy for minors and FIC has publicly questioned the need for it.

Family Institute of Connecticut believes in the …
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Mae Flexer and the Connecticut Alliance to End Sexual Violence want to increase the tax on marriage with SB 1011, ostensibly to fund sexual assault and domestic violence prevention and services: https://www.cga.ct.gov/2017/TOB/s/2017SB-01011-R00-SB.htm

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From 3/7/2017 e-mail blast . . . Powerful LGBT Lobby Holds Public Hearing to Outlaw Non-Existent Practice in CT

There was no juvenile trash talking of FIC this time, no amateurish interruptions of the media’s …
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Despite all the hyperbole about losing federal funding, it seems the state of Connecticut would attempt to replace any lost funding for Planned Parenthood CT.  This is expected.  Bad news …
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One of the problems each journalist must overcome (hopefully in journalism school) is setting aside the story they want to tell, in favor of fairness or facts.  An example of …
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NARAL is having its annual “politicians make brunch” fundraiser from 11:00-1:00 on Sunday, May 15, at a residence at 226 Kenyon Street in Hartford.  Boy, nothing whets my appetite quite …
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We hear that Cecile Richards was in Stamford this morning, campaigning for Hillary Clinton. If she were to stick around just one more day, she could have a tour of …
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This isn’t a typical post; it’s the closest thing to a feminist rant I have in me.

What triggers (see what I did there?) this rage is Senator Blumenthal’s recent …
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It must be springtime in Connecticut, because the Governor is picking on other states again — first North Carolina, now Mississippi. We’ve seen this movie before. He continues to demonstrate …
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Like the broader pro-life community, Connecticut’s leading pro-life organizations were of one accord on presidential contender Donald Trump’s recent comments: no, we don’t want to “punish” women. We’re glad the …
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