FIC ON AUGUST 8TH PRIMARY RESULTS
August 10th, 2006 by Brian
Lieberman stands a good chance of election as an independent, according to Peter Wolfgang, director of public policy for the Family Institute of Connecticut, but the defeat polarized the state Democratic Party.
“It’s sad, really, that in the state of Connecticut, Sen. Joe Lieberman is thought to be too conservative,” Wolfgang said. “The man has a 95-percent approval rating from NARAL (The National Abortion Rights Action League). He had a 90-percent approval rating from the Human Rights Campaign, the big same-sex marriage lobbying group in Washington, D.C.”
Wolfgang pointed out, however, that at the same time ultraliberals succeeded in ousting Lieberman, they failed to do the same thing to a courageous pro-life, pro-family Democratic state lawmaker.
Minnie Gonzalez, whom Wolfgang described as “a strong pro-family Democratic state representative” from Hartford, was a leader in the Connecticut Legislature against the recent effort to legalize homosexual same-sex unions. She even attached an amendment to a piece of legislation to define marriage as one man and one woman, he said.
“After Minnie cast her vote on the bill, she was approached by same-sex marriage activists who told her to her face, ‘We’ll make sure you’re out next election,’ ” Wolfgang said. “In fact, she won her district with — and this is an unofficial estimate — 74 percent of the vote.”
We’ll have more soon on the Aug. 8th primary and what it means for marriage protection in Connecticut.
