The fight to see every unborn child protected in law and welcomed in life heats up in a major way this week with the expected vote on Obamacare, which will mandate public financing of abortion. How fortunate for us, then, to have a new Connecticut ally in the pro-life [...]
“Evangelical churches target New England” is the scary-sounding headline of an AP story that appeared in yesterday’s papers. Readers of FIC Blog are by now familiar with the decline in religious faith nationally as well as in New England. How did our region go from the cradle of Christianity in the [...]
Yesterday’s Waterbury Republican-American had a front page story (subscriber only) quoting the “Connecticut six” on why state Anglicans will likely remain Anglican and not become Catholic, despite Rome’s recent outreach to them. Given the coalition of like-minded Christians of various denominations that FIC has assembled over the years, it was this quote [...]
Give The Courant some credit. When it comes to reporting on religion, their rolodex has finally expanded beyond the usual left-of-center voices:
Peter Wolfgang, executive director of the Family Institute of Connecticut and a Catholic, said that perhaps the question isn’t why women are more religious, but rather why men are less [...]
FIC is involved in the fight to keep a sexually oriented business (SOB) out of Southington:
SOUTHINGTON — Now that the appeal against the town’s decision to grant a permit to Very Intimate Pleasures has been withdrawn, residents who oppose the adult-oriented store and their allies are considering their next [...]
Elect a politician who is a fiscal-conservative-but-not-a-social-conservative and you will soon find that she is not even a fiscal conservative.
[...]This week several Connecticut Congressmen will be holding public meetings in the state concerning the health care bills in Congress. The independent organization FactCheck.org confirms that Obamacare would indeed use public monies to pay for abortions.
FIC, CT Right to Life and every other pro-life group in our state [...]
Twenty-five years ago in The Naked Public Square Richard John Neuhaus argued that an aggressive secularism was pushing religiously-grounded reasoning out of public discussion. In New Haven, it seems, police have been cracking down on the very expression of religion on public property.
But the city of New Haven has just agreed [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s a question we get every so often: Do the blog posts and comments on FIC Blog represent official FIC policy? To be sure, the question is generated in part by selective quoting of this site by those left-wing bloggers whose relationship to the truth is, at best, complicated. But [...]
That’s the question asked by a (Danbury) News-Times article this past weekend and I am inclined to answer yes–when every unborn child is welcomed in law and protected in life. A day that will never come, you say? The News-Times quotes me on the present darkness…and the glimmers of [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday’s Parade magazine ran an article by President Obama, touting the importance of fatherhood. Media reports pushing the article described it as part of his wider strategy of not alienating social conservatives–a strategy noticeably absent during a high profile visit to Hartford.
In fairness, the new president has given more attention [...]
Connecticut’s Episcopal Diocese would rather sell off a 245-year-old church in Watertown than give in to its pro-family dissenters. From Tuesday’s (Waterbury) Republican-American:
And last year Palmer was there [at Christ Church] when nearly all of the congregation left to form their own church because of the national Episcopal Church’s stance on homosexuals and other [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]I’ll be on Dan Lovallo’s radio program at 5 pm to discuss the first-ever Gallup poll showing that most Americans are pro-life. Go to www.talkofconnecticut.com to find the station near you.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. – Edmund Burke
While legislation may circumscribe the boundaries of our actions, it is beyond the legitimate reach of government to regulate our thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. In this sense, there is an inextricable link between our [...]
Pastor Eric Thompson of Wayfaring Ministries will appear on the Dan Lovallo Show at 5 pm today to discuss SB 899 and the pro-ssm side’s misuse of analogies to racial discrimination. Go to www.talkofconnecticut.com for the station near you.
[...]The Lawlor-and-McDonald-controlled Judiciary Committee has scheduled a vote on S.B. 899, the same-sex “marriage” bill, for TOMORROW (Monday, March 30th)! In its present form, this bill will lead to the same-sex “marriage”-fueled attacks on religious liberty that we have seen in other states (Catholic Charities forced out of adoptions in [...]
FIC Action yesterday called upon Senate President Pro Tem Donald Williams and House Speaker Chris Donovan to remove Sen. Andrew McDonald and Rep. Michael Lawlor from their positions as co-chairs of the Judiciary Committee. You can read the details on our homepage. The best media reports available so far [...]
We had a big victory at the state Capitol last week with the effective defeat of S.B 1098, the bill which would have removed the authority of Catholic bishops over their parishes. I’m just back from the Capitol, where it appears we may have had another major victory today–though I [...]
Truth has never been a high priority for left wing blogs. So it comes as no surprise to learn that they are falsely attributing to FIC a flyer that was distributed at last week’s Rally. It’s also no surprise that they would fail to post on their websites the flyer [...]
It’s one of the most outrageous attacks on religious liberty in Connecticut in living memory. Click here to read up on R.B. 1098 and to help us stop it.
[...]I’ll be on the Dan Lovallo show this afternoon following the 3:30 news to discuss the CT Catholic Conference’s Special Report on The State of Abortion in CT…and Obama will likely be a topic as well. I also gave an interview about the Report to Shelly Sindland, which will [...]
According to an article in this morning’s Courant, abortion is one of the most immediate priorities of our newly-inaugurated President:
In one of his first acts as president, Barack Obama is planning to lift a rule that prevents federal money from going to international family planning groups that counsel women on [...]
We are blessed to live in a country that cherishes freedom - and that includes your freedom to choose with whom to associate and with whom to trade. Even when political machinations may tend to thwart the will of the people, the power of how you choose to spend your [...]
FIC Blog wishes a Merry Christmas to all our Christian members and a Happy Chanukah to our growing number of Jewish supporters. It is thanks to divine providence–and your kind generosity–that we are sustained in our fight for faith and family in Connecticut. May the season’s blessings be upon you!
[...]It’s been an enormously busy time at FIC, but I want to assure all of you who asked that we are committed to firing up FIC Blog again. Among its many features, FIC Blog serves as a sort of “virtual archive” of FIC’s activities and media appearances–and in the last [...]
While the political world swirls in Obama mania, there hasn’t yet been much media attention upon the outcome of the marriage amendments in Arizona, California, and Florida. Nevertheless it appears that supporters of traditional family values can find reassurance in all of these contests. Here are the results as they [...]
From our Oct. 14th e-mail alert:
Last Friday [Oct. 10th] four judges on Connecticut’s Supreme Court undemocratically forced same-sex “marriage” on our state. Our best—very likely our only—chance to restore marriage and self-government in Connecticut is for the majority of state voters to vote “Yes” on Question 1 on Election Day [...]
Below is our Tuesday e-mail alert (minus the links), which has since sparked on an online reaction from Courant columnist Rick Green. We’ll have more on this when time allows:
The pro same-sex “marriage”/pro-abortion forces who wield inordinate influence over Connecticut’s politics and culture are legion. And they are coalescing around [...]
In today’s Connecticut Post, the front page of their Commentary section features a rant by wire editor John Hourihan who opines about how he is “getting tired of the religious right”.
Writers like Hourihan need to understand that the feeling is mutual. We are getting tired of liberally biased [...]
FIC sent an e-mail alert to our membership Tuesday morning urging them to support the con con campaign. We got a call from the AP five minutes later and the result is the article that appeared yesterday in several state papers:
Hartford - Tens of thousands of dollars are being raised in [...]
View FIC Action Committee’s press release on the CT primaries here.
Our members received a more detailed analysis in their in-boxes yesterday. As for the Courant article referenced in the press release, here’s the money quote:
The candidates both have impressive resumes and share a mainstream Republican philosophy of fiscal [...]
The MA house of representatives has voted to repeal a law that helped prevent their supreme court from forcing same-sex “marriage” on the rest of the country. From today’s Courant:
Opponents of gay marriage in Connecticut and Massachusetts denounced the House’s vote. Peter Wolfgang, executive director of the Family Institute [...]
Campaign Pete wants FIC Blog’s readers to remember next Tuesday’s primaries. (FIC Action Committee will have more to say about them soon.) Excerpts from Pete’s comments in another thread:
A bunch of primaries take place in two weeks, on August 12th involving Pro-Marriage candidates, including:
(R) Witkos - Canton, State Senate
(D) [...]
Of course, it always had national attention…from same-sex “marriage” proponents. Tim Gill and other out-of-state “gay” multimillionaires have sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to Connecticut to help our opponents redefine marriage. But our pro-marriage allies have now taken an interest as well:
While most of [the National Organization for Marriage’s] efforts [...]
Teen motherhood is rising for the first time in 15 years and the Courant’s sole libertarian columnist has had enough. Larry Cohen today stepped away from his usual fiscal concerns to speak some indelicate truths about virtue in Connecticut:
The “abstinence” movement in its current form has somehow been transformed into [...]
Below is a (slightly edited) e-mail we sent to our members yesterday.
In just a few weeks same-sex couples from Connecticut may be getting “married” in Massachusetts, if our neighboring state repeals a law respecting the marriage definition of other states.
In Connecticut, these “marriages” will have no effect. Thanks to the [...]
“They’re Religious, Conservative and Young: Group Establishes Wing of Family Institute of Connecticut.” That’s the print-edition headline of today’s front page Hartford Courant article profiling iFIC. Below is the full text and photo, reprinted with the permission of The Courant.
Young Religious Conservatives Form Their Own Group
By DANIELA ALTIMARI Courant [...]
The pro-abortion lobbyists behind the sex-ed bills we defeated this year haven’t given up the fight. But they know that FIC hasn’t either. From the June 23rd Journal Inquirer:
Those ‘usual suspects’ include Peter Wolfgang, Executive Director of the Family Institute of Connecticut.
“The bill was written in a very vague manner, [...]
The Task Force to Study the Causes of Fatherlessness in Connecticut is tentatively scheduled to hold a press conference on Thursday, June 26th at 2:00 pm–and to have its first meeting immediately after the press conference.
Those of you who received FIC Action’s May 22nd legislative wrap-up e-mail know what a [...]
