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Gay Fascism, Police Incompetence
in Rhode Island

In all the years I have been fighting for the one man-one woman definition of marriage I have never feared for the safety of my wife and children. Until now.

Last Sunday we travelled to Providence to support NOM-Rhode Island's pro-marriage rally and to see Brian Brown, NOM President and former executive director of the Family Institute of Connecticut. Brian and Sue are the godparents of our son, Isaac, Leslie and I are the godparents of their daughter, Annie, and this was the first time our two families had seen each other since the Browns left CT.

It was not the reunion we were expecting. If you view the second photo in this article you will see my wife facing down a group of angry gay fascists who disrupted the rally while RI police did nothing. What you will not see are the Wolfgang and Brown children cowering in fear behind her.

If you view NOM's photos of the RI rally, you will see gay fascists surrounding Brian Brown at the podium and taking away our right to free speech and to peaceably assemble. What you will not see is me, just to the left of Brian, yelling at RI police: "Do your job! Why don't you remove them?" The Rhode Island police, incredibly, responded by telling me that the protesters had a right to be there--essentially, that they had a right to disrupt our rally.

I cannot emphasize enough that you click here and read my wife Leslie's account of what she and Brian's wife, Susan, experienced in Rhode Island on Sunday.

Last Sunday in Providence, the mask came off. Last Sunday, our opposition dropped all the pretenses about "rights" and showed their true face. It is a face of hate and intolerance. It is the face of a movement that will not stop at redefining marriage but will go on to take away our rights and even to target our children.

This is why we cannot stop fighting. Watch for further information on what you can do to help build on the post-same-sex "marriage" victories that FIC has already won in CT--and what you can do to help our friends in RI.


2010
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News from the Front Lines

On the Courts!
FIC is pleased that Judge Julia Aurigemma has dismissed a lawsuit seeking the creation of a right to physician assisted suicide in Connecticut. Taking their cue from the Kerrigan same-sex "marriage" ruling, the cultural Left thought yet another Connecticut judge would grant them what the people and their elected representatives would not. But Judge Aurigemma wasn't buying it. “Judges aren’t supposed to legislate and people don’t like it when we do,” she warned the plaintiffs at the hearing last March.

In the Media!
The Courant today published Peter Wolfgang's letter responding to Rick Green's attack on FIC. Green has already launched another salvo, saying we only responded to him for our own nefarious fundraising purposes. In fact, Green is a distraction. It is precisely because we are not
who Green thinks we are that we intend to give this matter no further attention.

On the Ground!
The Leadership Institute will hold a Conservative Activist School this Saturday in Wethersfield. Details are here. Many of you may remember the Conservative Activist School that FIC co-sponsored a few years ago with Yankee Institute. That school was also run by Leadership Institute. They do good work and we highly recommend their event.


We Endorse: Martha Dean
for Attorney General!

Family Institute of Connecticut Action Committee is proud to make our first-ever endorsement for statewide office: Martha Dean for Attorney General!

A longtime friend of our movement, Martha Dean has practiced law in Connecticut for 22 years. The most intellectually substantive candidate running for state office in Connecticut, Martha is pro-family and can articulate our values. And she can win.  

After many long years in the political wilderness, Connecticut's pro-family movement is finally producing a significant slate of serious, viable candidates for statewide office. But even among the extraordinary Class of 2010, there is something special about Martha Dean.  

Martha knows that life begins at conception and will advocate for greater protection of human life.  

Martha believes in the traditional definition of marriage, that the debate on this issue is not over in Connecticut and that Connecticut will be revisiting this issue in the future. 

Martha knows that much of what is best, and of the greatest enduring value, in America arose from or was built on the foundation of our Judeo-Christian values.  

And did we mention she can win?  

In past years Connecticut's Republican Party has too frequently treated the state's values voters with disdain. The effect was to demoralize a key constituency who sat on its hands and let the state's GOP dwindle to super-minority status. 

We are seeing signs that the Republican Party has learned from its errors and is willing to make a real effort to win over Connecticut's values voters in 2010. The best sign yet is the candidacy of Martha Dean for Attorney General. 

FIC Action Committee endorses Martha Dean for Attorney General and calls upon the delegates to Connecticut's Republican State Convention to nominate her for Attorney General this weekend.