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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
Family Institute of
Connecticut's
Biggest Year Yet!
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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.
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.