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We’re happy to report that the ethics bill passed by the U.S. Senate included the Bennett amendment: The Senate last night also voted 55-43 to adopt a Republican amendment that deleted a provision of the ethics bill that would have expanded the definition of lobbyist to include grass-roots organizers, possibly including ministers and neighborhood groups. […]

A pro-life stalwart and member of FIC’s legislative advisory council is proposing a state law to require abortion clinics to report suspected rape cases to local law enforcement agencies. From a print edition-only article in today’s Republican-American: Trumbull Rep. T.R. Rowe sponsored a bill to require abortion clinics to determine if a person seeking an abortion […]

A bill to muzzle pro-family voters has been introduced in the new Democrat-controlled Senate: The ethics bill before the Senate not only cracks down on lawmakers, but also subjects politically active ministers and neighborhood groups to the same rules as K Street lobbyists.     Under the legislation, grass-roots organizations that attempt to “influence the general public” […]

“Legalized polygamy coming to America sometime soon?” writes TrueBlueCT in this thread. “I doubt it.” He bases his claim on the small number of polygamists in the U.S. But according to the 2000 U.S. census only 6/10 of 1% of Connecticut households are occupied by same-sex “partners.” Yet a radical redefinition of marriage in Connecticut […]

Consumer Protection is recommending passage of a Children’s Protection Registry law, a concept FIC supports. From the AP: HARTFORD, Conn. — A state agency report has recommended that lawmakers create a registry to shield youngsters from the marketing of illegal or illicit products, despite a constitutional challenge to a similar Utah database. The Department of Consumer […]

Connecticut’s anti-family activists have often hoped that our state would follow the example of Massachusetts, the only state to legalize same-sex “marriage.” But that state’s legislature has just taken the first step toward passing a marriage protection amendment and that’s the example our own legislature should look to: letting the people decide! Something as radical as […]

‘Tis the season for anti-Catholic gimmicks at our state capitol. Pro-abortion activists have trotted out Miss Connecticut to support their efforts to force Catholic hospitals to provide abortion-inducing drugs: Miss Connecticut Heidi Alice Voight said Wednesday that she supports legislation that would require all Connecticut hospitals to provide emergency contraception to rape victims. This marks […]

Connecticut’s five Congressmen are uniformly pro-abortion and pro embryo destruction. But we owe it to ourselves–and the lives that will be lost–to dissuade them from forcing us to fund the deliberate killing of innocent human life. Below is the FRC action alert on tomorrow’s vote.  On January 11, the House will consider a bill to […]

Dawn Eden, New York City newspaper journalist and popular Christian blogger, will speak on her new book, The Thrill of the Chaste: Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes On, on Wednesday, January 24, 7:30-8:30 p.m. at the Playwright, 144 Temple Street in New Haven. The event is free but a suggested offering of $5 is requested. […]

Sunday’s Courant carried a good front page above-the-fold primer on why Connecticut is now the “front line” in the battle for Christian orthodoxy within the Episcopal Church: The Christmastime decision by eight Virginia congregations to bolt the Episcopal Church in favor of Anglican partners in Africa echoed loudly in the church’s oldest diocese – the one in Connecticut that […]