Religious Freedom

Family Institute of Connecticut is, by our very nature, focused on Connecticut. Even on those occasions when we turn our attention to something on the federal level, it usually relates back …
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The most important speech during yesterday’s three-and-a-half-hour debate in the Connecticut House of Representatives, over whether to confirm Justice Andrew McDonald’s nomination for Chief Justice, is the one you haven’t …
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We didn’t win the vote. But we won the issue for today.

The Hartford City Council voted 7-2 last night to pass the anti-pregnancy center ordinance requiring such centers to …
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That is my takeaway from having spent all day Friday at a UConn Law School symposium on the clash between same-sex marriage and religious liberty. It was laid bare not by the …
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Antisemitism is the world’s longest and most enduring hatred.  Jews have been targeted with violent hatred all the way back to ancient Greece and Rome, and even before (the Book …
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Please Join us for our 9th Annual Fundraising Banquet!

Our Keynote Speaker: Most Rev. Thomas J. Tobin

When:    September 29, 2017     …
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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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We know anti-family activists are angry because they lost ground in the last election. We know they are behaving at the state Capitol in ways we have never seen before.

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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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Shelton resident Jerry Bloom describes himself as a secular humanist. Bloom recently was allowed to put up a “Winter Solstice” banner in the public park on Huntington Green (for …
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