Major Pro-Family Victory in CT Primaries!

Rep. Kevin Witkos, a 100% pro-family candidate, easily defeated Moira Wertheimer in the 8th Senate District's Republican primary yesterday.
This is a major victory in the fight to protect marriage in Connecticut.
Kevin Witkos was the only FIC Action Committee-endorsed candidate for Senate in the 2008 primaries.

And this was the only Senate primary where the candidates' positions on same-sex "marriage" became an issue!
In an article published last Thursday, The Hartford Courant—the paper of record for the 8th District's 11 towns—highlighted our endorsement of Witkos:
"The candidates both have impressive resumes and share a mainstream Republican philosophy of fiscal conservatism, though Witkos hews closer to the right on social issues such as gay marriage and abortion, while Wertheimer embraces the politics of consensus...Witkos has staked out more conservative territory on social issues, which has won him the endorsement of the Family Institute of Connecticut."

If Kevin Witkos wins the general election on November 4th, he will fill the seat currently held by Thomas Herlihy, the most anti-family Republican in the state Senate.
 If Witkos wins in November it means voters will be replacing Herlihy—the only Senate Republican with a 0% pro-family voting record—with Witkos, who has a 100% pro-family voting record.

The election of Kevin Witkos this November may be the most important thing we can do to move our state legislature in a pro-family direction!

Making pro-family gains at the state Capitol was the goal of our primary endorsements—in contrast to pro same-sex "marriage" activists, whose endorsements were carefully chosen to further an illusion.

Of the seven candidates FIC Action Committee endorsed on August 1st, four won and three lost.
Our winners were Rep. Marie Lopez Kirkley-Bey, Rep. Selim Noujaim, Rep. Corky Mazurek and Rep. Kevin Witkos. Our defeated candidates were Tom Harrison, Lydia Martinez and Jose Rivera.

All six of the candidates endorsed by "Love Makes a Family" (LMF) won—but LMF only made endorsements in districts where victory was guaranteed.
Five of their six endorsements were in districts that already had a pro same-sex "marriage" representative and the sixth had a pro same-sex unions senator.
LMF endorsed only where they knew they would win...so as to create the false perception of a pro same-sex "marriage" trend.

FIC Action Committee, by contrast, did not endorse in some races where both candidates were pro-family.

The lesson of yesterday's primaries is that the 2009 legislative session may turn out to be more pro-family than we were expecting. If so, this will improve our chance of defeating same-sex "marriage" next year...and of passing a direct initiative law.

But first, we have to win in November.
And, for the first time ever, we will face a legislature next year with a pro same-sex "marriage" Speaker of the House. And—looming over all our work and prayer to protect marriage—is a still-undecided state Supreme Court decision which may impose same-sex "marriage" by undemocratic fiat.

We have our work cut out for us.
But, with His help, we have accomplished great things in the past and can do so again.
Watch for more information on what you can do to stand up to the courts, the legislature and anti-family candidates to protect marriage in Connecticut.

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