FIC Blog

This Friday, October 5th, there will be a  bioethics lecture by Alan Sears, the president of Alliance Defending Freedom, which is the legal arm of Focus on the Family (and the Family Institute of Connecticut). The talk at Holy Apostles College in Cromwell will be on religious liberty, same sex “marriage”, and the link between […]

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 […]

According to a proposed bill in California, Heather could have three mommies. Under the bill, SB 1476 would allow a child to have multiple parents. State Senator Mark Leno is behind the legislation, stating that “The bill brings California into the 21st Century.” Given the propensity of Connecticut’s state government to do the wrong thing […]

  It is quite unfortunate when those on one side of a political argument decide to fabricate stories in order to garner attention and cause others to believe in a falsehood. On May 2nd, Central Connecticut State University student Alexandra Pennell was arrested for an alleged ongoing scheme of deception. After issuing several reports to […]

It is unlikely to win one of the Courant’s “best letters of the year” awards, but it should. Daniel Harazim calls out our local paper of record for ignoring Father’s Day and boy, does he have their number: I might have at least thought that the paper would do a fabulous spread on the glories […]

It’s official. Kids need their dads; having two moms just doesn’t cut it. The social science is catching up to what we knew all along. Family Institute of Connecticut is proud to have led the fight in our state to let every child have the chance to grow up with both a mom and a […]

They think the First Amendment is threatened by high school graduations on church property but not by a federal mandate forcing Catholic institutions to provide abortifacients. But sometimes, even the ACLU can’t ignore it’s own stated principles. Such an occasion has just occurred in Wolcott. On April 20, Wolcott High School junior, Seth Groody, was […]

It’s just come over the wire that President Obama now openly supports same-sex “marriage.” He may be doing it to address the lack of enthusiasm among his Leftist base that James Carville writes about. He may be doing it to take some of the devastating sting out of the loss just suffered by gay “marriage” […]

Remember the 2008 Constitutional Convention Question? The poll showing 65% of Connecticut voters want direct initiative? The $800,000 smear campaign by teachers unions and same-sex “marriage” activists to prevent your right to vote? Tom Foley does. His think tank, the Connecticut Policy Institute, has just put out a policy paper reviewing that unfortunate history and […]

Washington State has legalized same-sex “marriage” and Maryland is on the verge of doing likewise (and the always-bizarre 9th Circuit has ruled against California’s Proposition 8). The passage of gay marriage by elected officials in other states, with no real exemption for religious liberty, shows how much FIC did accomplish here in our own state […]