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Media Censors Victory Over Assisted Suicide Connecticut was targeted in 2013 to be the first state in the country to legalize assisted suicide through the state legislature. But assisted suicide was defeated – crushed – this year, thanks to the Family Institute of Connecticut and our allies! And yet, when the media wrote their “winners […]

In the six years since Peter Wolfgang became president of Family Institute of Connecticut Action, we have suffered only one major legislative defeat: the passage of the 2011 Bathroom Bill. 2013 marks the resumption of FIC Action’s winning streak and, indeed, of an FIC Action that is better than it has ever been. Here is […]

The best social conservative talk radio host in Connecticut is a man who once performed a lesbian “wedding” underneath a Family Institute of Connecticut billboard. His name is Vinnie Penn and his journey from there to here tells us something about the current state of talk radio in Connecticut—and the future of the pro-family fight. […]

Meanwhile opponents of same-sex marriage are also gearing up. The National Organization for Marriage is holding a march in Washington Tuesday. The Family Institute of Connecticut is a sponsor of the event and its members will be traveling by charter bus to the nation’s capital to attend the gathering. Well, The Courant ignored the 615 […]

Family Institute of Connecticut is pleased that the Wolcott Board of Education has given into the ACLU’s demand that student Seth Groody be allowed to wear a shirt protesting the Day of Silence event that is ironically forced on public school students to fight bullying. But we are struck by the discrepancy in news reporting on […]

In 2009, then-State Senator Andrew McDonald led the most blatantly unconstitutional attack on religious liberty in recent memory when he tried to pass a bill that would have stripped Connecticut’s Catholic bishops and priests of authority over their own parishes–a move widely believed to be payback for the Church’s opposition to same-sex “marriage.” Now a […]

Our friends at the editorial page of the (Waterbury) Republican-American pull no punches: More senseless slaughter: While Americans continue to try to come to grips with the senseless slaughter of children in the Sandy Hook Massacre, Planned Parenthood has disclosed in its annual report that with the help of more than a half-billion dollars in […]

(Note: This op-ed, written by me, appeared way back on March 5, 2012 in the Waterbury Republican-American under the headline “Roraback a poor choice for the right.” I will have further thoughts on Sen. Roraback’s defeat in the 5th Congressional race soon. But what I predicted eight months ago is essentially what happened. ~ PW) […]

Ten years ago this month the Family Institute of Connecticut and the Connecticut State Council of the Knights of Columbus teamed up to gather nearly 100,000 signatures from state residents for the defense of marriage. It was this petition drive that put FIC on the map and stopped every attempt to redefine marriage at the […]

My husband Peter, executive director of FIC, was subjected to death threats for being a pro-family leader. You can read The Courant’s front page coverage here and The Courant’s subsequent editorial here. It’s the editorial that I want to say something about. I appreciate The Hartford Courant defending Peter. I’m sure the editorialist thinks they […]