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In a June 8th e-mail alert FIC spoke positively of Sen. Chris Dodd’s absence from the Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA) vote. And pro same-sex “marriage” activists are seeing red.

Here is the relevant part of our e-mail:

Prior to the vote, FIC delivered all of the pro-family petitions we received to Connecticut’s two U.S. Senators, Chris Dodd and Joseph Lieberman. Senator Lieberman voted against the MPA. Senator Dodd did not vote.

The different response of our two Senators matches our experiences with their office staffs. When FIC executive director Brian Brown met with staff members from both Senators’ Washington offices he found Sen. Dodd’s staff to be more courteous and professional.

When FIC’s Peter Wolfgang delivered our online petitions to Sen. Dodd’s Wethersfield office he received the same treatment. “We’ll send these down to him right away,” Sen. Dodd’s staff told him.

Despite his absence, Sen. Dodd is still publicly opposed to the MPA. Nevertheless, the state’s pro same-sex “marriage” establishment is scrambling to remind him who’s in charge:

Some supporters of same-sex marriage say they were shocked and disappointed that Dodd, who recently announced he is running for president, didn´t make more of an effort to stay in Washington and vote on what they see as a key civil rights issue…

¨We were very disappointed that he wasn´t there for the vote, and we got a lot of calls and e-mails from our members,¨ Stanback said. She did not know if Dodd was trying to make himself more acceptable to conservative voters, she said. ¨If that were the case I would be very disappointed — because this was an easy vote.¨

Stanback said she planned to request a meeting with Dodd, not only about the amendment vote but also to seek his support for a change in state law that would allow same-sex marriage.

She said a decision in Kerrigan & Mock v. Connecticut Department of Public Health , a lawsuit seeking to force Connecticut to allow gay marriage, is expected this summer. The suit will eventually end up before the state Supreme Court, which supporters hope will follow the Massachusetts Supreme Court in allowing gay marriage, Stanback said.

In the FIC alert on the MPA vote we had this message for Sen. Dodd:

We are pleased that Sen. Dodd at least chose not to vote against the MPA. We hope that he will use the time prior to the next vote to reflect on the importance of marriage protection and the need to allow the issue to be decided by the people, not the courts.

But pro same-sex “marriage” activists have a different message for him: “Support us. Or else.”