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A RIPPLE EFFECT

Yesterday’s FIC Rally for Religious Freedom was a success, turning out a good number of people on a chilly weekday morning and earning some fair media coverage:

About 50 supporters of the Family Institute of Connecticut rallied on the steps of the state Capitol on Wednesday, vowing to keep the pressure on state legislators to protect religious liberty.

Though encouraged that a bill that would have required Catholic hospitals to prescribe Plan B or “morning-after” contraception to rape victims died in committee on Monday, Brian Brown, the group’s executive director, said the fight was not over.

“We had a great victory on Monday: This bill died in committee because of your phone calls, because of your e-mails, because of your action,” Brown said, to cheers and applause. “I don’t want to ever hear you say it doesn’t matter what we do. Monday showed that it does matter what we do.”

The New London Day’s Bethe Defresne also did some fair and balanced reporting:

When the Family Institute of Connecticut rallied Wednesday against abortion and same-sex unions at the state Capitol in Hartford, there was nothing new or different about its mission. There was a change, however, in its rallying cry.

This time the key words weren’t traditional family values; they were religious freedom.

“It’s all part of a seamless whole,” said Peter Wolfgang, the institute’s director of public policy, prior to the rally. But he acknowledged that there has been a shift in emphasis to religious freedom, necessitated, he said, by two recent events. One was proposed legislation, shelved on Monday, that would require the state’s four private Catholic hospitals to offer rape victims Plan B, the so-called morning-after pill, which prevents pregnancy if taken within 72 hours of intercourse. The Catholic Church considers it a chemical form of abortion.

The other was a complaint lodged with the state Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities by a doctor at St. Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury, who was denied benefits by the hospital for his same-sex partner even though they were legally joined in a civil union.

Be sure not to miss the outstanding contributions of John and Wendy Sweeney in the Day piece. And there was this observation from the CT head of the pro-abortion group NARAL:

But challenges to abortion rights in South Dakota and Mississippi already may have had a ripple effect here [Connecticut], she said, judging by the “hostility” to proposed legislation requiring that Plan B be offered to rape victims, legislation she said should have been “a no-brainer.”

FIC is pushing ahead on religious freedom, the Kerrigan case and several other fronts. And you can tell we are making progress by the up-tick in the Left’s FIC scorn-o-meter:

More than that, [FIC’s] arguments aren’t very well grounded in religion, either. What does motivate them is politics

If Brian Brown was a good Christian, he’d be spending his energy bringing CT together, and fighting for the less rich and the less powerful. Instead, Brian is a tool, fighting false battles for the benefit of those who care most about money– and not about the average people who were the subject of Christ’s teachings…

BTW – Family Institute’s “rally” on the capitol steps was about as well attended as a Banks Committee meeting. The gay monks in baby blue with Jesus Hoppers were there though…

A post on a website devoted to politics accuses us of–gasp!–politics, gay rights advocates insult our supporters by calling them gay and, of course, there is the free religious advice. There was a time when liberals made serious contributions to the national dialogue. Now they’re just funny.

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