CT's Anti-Family Power Brokers Attack FIC!

The pro same-sex "marriage"/pro-abortion forces who wield inordinate influence over Connecticut's politics and culture are legion. And they are coalescing around a campaign to stop the one group they all fear the most: Family Institute of Connecticut.

It's almost comical. How could FIC's small two-man office be such a threat to the ridiculously wealthy organizations that call the shots in Connecticut's halls of power?

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And yet, we are. Last week, some of the richest lobbies in our state held a press conference featuring Attorney General Richard Blumenthal to speak against a yes vote for the constitutional convention. Why do they so adamantly oppose it? It is because FIC supports it. Nothing—no other group's position on the constitution convention—scares them more.

So they're getting desperate. And dishonest. Just look at Rick Green's column in today's Hartford Courant. Here's an excerpt:

Members [of the Constitution Convention Campaign] kept saying this wasn't about special interests. So why was the director of the Family Institute of Connecticut (google: Marriage Protection Pledge) up there at the front of the room?...

What [Peter] Wolfgang, [Rep. Arthur] O'Neill, [Campaign Chairman Matthew] Daly and the other faux populists behind this constitutional convention aren't telling you is that this is all about special interests and handing them the right to ram their various agendas down our throats. They want to bring us endless — and costly — referendums on everything from abortion to gay marriage to eliminating teacher unions to medical marijuana.

Rick Green would have the Courant's readers believe that FIC's support for a constitutional convention means the "Vote Yes" side is the one backed by special interests. But what Green isn't telling you is that the "Vote No" campaign is outspending us by more than ten-to-one! Given our opponents' lopsided financial advantage, it is shockingly dishonest for Green to mislead the Courant's readers into believing that a "yes" vote for the constitutional convention would allow "special interests" to "ram" unwanted agendas "down our throats."

The dirty little secret of this campaign—the one Atty. Gen. Blumenthal, Courant columnist Rick Green, same-sex "marriage" activists and other powers-that-be don't want the public to know—is that big money ALREADY controls CT politics and is being spent to stop anything that empowers citizens and lessens the power of well-healed special interests. The $45,000 our opponents are already spending to prevent direct initiative is probably peanuts compared to what they will spend by Election Day.

Nothing has ever threatened the privileged place of “the powers that be” in Connecticut like the prospect of a constitutional convention and direct initiative. Direct initiative will not mean that big-monied special interests will control CT politics. Rather, it will give the average citizen a voice against the big-monied special interests that already do.

We can stop them. We can protect marriage and restore the right to self-government in Connecticut. But to do it we need your help—and we need you at the Rally for Marriage this Sunday!

Click here to support FIC: Connecticut's leader in the fight for marriage, faith and family! 

This Sunday, September 28th at 2:30 p.m. the Family Institute of Connecticut will hold a Rally for Marriage on the steps of the state Capitol in Hartford. This will be Connecticut's most important marriage protection event yet—but it may not succeed unless thousands of people like you turn out to make their voice heard!

Bishop Jeremiah Torres of the House of Restoration Church, Pastor Brian Simmons of Gateway Christian Fellowship, "CT 6" Pastor Christopher Leighton, Rabbi Joshua Hecht of Beth Israel Synagogue, Fr. Greg Markey of St. Mary's Church in Norwalk and other major clergy and politicians will join FIC executive director Peter Wolfgang to speak in defense of marriage and the right to Let the People Decide at the Rally. Parking will be available at The Legislative Office Building Parking Garage, Elm St, Market St and the Bushnell Parking Lot. Click here to download our Rally flyer.

News of a "counter-rally" has raised the stakes for the Rally for Marriage. In order for our Rally to be a success, we must turn out substantially more people than our opposition. Please ask your pastor, priest or rabbi to rally fellow believers to attend the September 28th Rally for Marriage. Please arrange to have a bus leave from your church following Sunday services. The success of the rally depends on turnout, and turning out thousands for marriage protection will not happen unless Connecticut's churches are willing to take a stand. Your willingness to organize your church to attend the rally could make the difference between failure and success. The stakes are that high! For more information, contact FIC at 860-548-0066 and ask for Larry. And please forward this e-mail to every like-minded person you know!

Finally, we are asking for your financial support for the Rally and for FIC's other projects to support marriage and the family in Connecticut. Our opponents are willing to put their financial resources into stopping FIC. Do Connecticut's pro-family citizens have the same level of commitment to our beliefs as those who work around-the-clock to attack the family in our state?

You see what a threat FIC is to Connecticut's anti-family "powers-that-be." We want to make sure their fears are justified—that is, that FIC really is the one group that can best turn back the pro-abortion/pro same-sex "marriage" stranglehold over our state. But we can't do it without you.

Could you please click here to donate $50, $100, or $250 to help us fight for the family in Connecticut? Or if God has blessed you with the means to do so, could you donate $500, $1,000, $2,500 or more?

The Attorney General and the Hartford Courant think FIC is a force to be reckoned with. We want to prove them right...but we need your support to do it!

Thank you and God bless you for all you do for our shared cause. The Rally is just a few days away. Your financial support for our work is more appreciated than we can say.

Don't let them get away with it! Click here to help us defeat the pro same-sex "marriage" movement here in the heart of "blue state" territory!