Ave Maria!
We will be going to the New Haven Green for the FIC Stand Up for Religious Freedom Rally against the HSS contraception mandate on Friday, June 8th at 12 noon. We will be reporting on the event. Hope to see some of our local viewers there.
From FIC:
Bishop Rosazza to Speak at June 8th Stand Up for Religious Freedom Rally!
Hartford Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus Peter Rosazza has just told the Family Institute of Connecticut that he will speak at the June 8th Stand Up for Religious Freedom Rally! The Rally will be held on Friday, June 8th at 12:00 noon on the New Haven Green (corner of Church and Chapel Streets). Please arrive early in order to find parking.
And please do attend the Rally and forward this message to all your friends and ask them to attend! We need as big a turnout as possible for this event.
You know why this Rally is necessary! Earlier this year, the Health and Human Services Department announced that employers, including religious institutions, will be forced to pay for and provide abortion-inducing drugs, contraceptives and sterilizations, even it violates their conscience.
You understand the threat! If we lose this battle, we lose our First Amendment right to free exercise of our religious beliefs. FIC has never been this involved in a federal issue before, but given the dire nature of the threat and FIC’s role in saving religious liberty after same-sex “marriage” was imposed on Connecticut, we had no choice.
You know that FIC sprung into action! Leslie Wolfgang published a Hartford Courant op-ed exposing the falsehood of an “accommodation,” Peter Wolfgang spoke at a Tea Party rally, FIC co-hosted a second religious freedom rally that drew 615 people to Hartford (see here and here) and we let the public know that a pro-abortion rally was a failure.
What you may not know: Peter Wolfgang has been on a speaking tour in churches throughout Connecticut. In the last two months Peter spoke at St. Mary’s Church in Norwalk, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Meriden, St. Joseph Church in Poquonock, St. Paul’s Church in Glastonbury, St. Pius X Church in Wolcott and St. Mary Star of the Sea Church in Unionville. Peter will speak at four more churches, both Catholic and Protestant, in the next several weeks.
This is FIC’s closest collaboration with the Catholic Church in years. The Church understands that it is being targeted by these mandates and that the mandates threaten the religious freedom of ALL of us, no matter what our denomination. When Connecticut’s Catholics, Protestants and Jews all come together for a common cause, like the defense of religious liberty, you can be certain that the Family Institute of Connecticut is right there helping to make it happen.
