Tag Archives: State: Connecticut

Stateline.org reports: “Hawaii is one of three states — along with Connecticut and Illinois — where voters will decide this year whether to convene constitutional conventions. The question is on the ballot in all three states automatically, because their state …

Newsday reports: Two of the state’s top elected officials urged voters Wednesday to reject a proposal on the November ballot for a convention to consider changing the Connecticut Constitution . . . If a majority [of voters] vote yes, a …

Newsday reports: “Waterbury police say a 21-year-old exotic dancer, who died a day after she was found unconscious in a strip club over the weekend, may have died from a drug overdose.”

NBC reports: East Hartford residents have been battling with the town on how to put the brakes on adult businesses. Tuesday night, the town council is expected to take an important vote . . . Many residents said they are …

A former U.S. Olympic official has asked a Connecticut court for a special form of probation that could lead to dismissal of child pornography charges.

Leonard Link reports: “Different Connecticut trial judges issued decisions on July 9 and July 10 in lawsuits seeking full enforcement of gestational surrogacy agreements between gay male couples and married women who had agreed to bear children for them.”

Leonard Link reports: Judge Lloyd Cutsumpas, of the Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, ordered that two gay men from New York who contracted with a Connecticut woman to be their “gestational surrogate” are entitled to have only their names listed …

The Blog of the Family Institute of Connecticut reports: In just a few weeks same-sex couples from Connecticut may be getting “married” in Massachusetts, if our neighboring state repeals a law respecting the marriage definition of other states. In Connecticut, …

NorthHavenPost.com reports: The adult book and video store that was the subject of a state Supreme Court appeal will soon open on Washington Avenue – complete with 15 “preview” booths. In a 3-2 decision released last Wednesday, the Supreme Court …

The Hartford Courant reports: “A local man has been accused of purchasing drugs at a local strip club where police have been investigating complaints of persistent narcotics trafficking in recent weeks.”

The News-Times reports: “A Christian congregation in Bethel is appealing a decision from the city’s Zoning Board of Appeals that prohibits it from building a new church on Shelter Rock Lane.” Hat tip Religion Clause Blog.

Hartford Courant: “Police conducting surveillance on a local strip club arrested a man on drug charges Monday after they spotted him entering the club to purchase crack cocaine, police said . . . “

The AP reports on Newsday: “The American Civil Liberties Union went to court on Tuesday in an attempt to prevent the state from force feeding a prison inmate who has lost over 100 pounds while on a hunger strike.” The …

The Boston Globe reports: “A 12-year-old Westport girl has been charged with distributing a nude photo of a classmate to fellow students.” There are rising concerns nationwide about this phenomena of minors distributing nude photos of themselves and others.

Leonard Link provides this overview of the marriage battle in four states: California, New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey.

The Family Institute of Connecticut Blog reports on how the abortion issue potentially complicates a merger involving a Catholic Hospital.

The Family Institute of Connecticut critiques a Hartford Courant Op-Ed that argues in favor of marriage redefinition.

The Family Institute of Connecticut Blog has this post regarding a Hartford Courant article: “But with this article the campaign for polyamory has now taken its first step in Connecticut…and it was the push for same-sex marriage that made it possible. Just …

The Family Institute of Connecticut Blog reports: Three years ago Connecticut’s pro same-sex “marriage” Episcopal bishop sent his henchmen to change the locks and confiscate the property of a pro-family church in Bristol, replacing their pastor with one loyal to …

Nearly 80 residents packed a town hall meeting room Wednesday to oppose proposed zoning regulations that would allow adult entertainment establishments in industrial areas farther from I-84 than current rules allow . . .

A court case sparked by the town’s battle to keep an adult sex toy, video and “romance shop” from opening in a middle-class neighborhood played out Monday with dry legal arguments in state Supreme Court.

Testimony by the public policy arm of the state’s bishops and by the Family Institute of Connecticut helped to kill a bill that would have required the state to recognize legal unions of same-sex couples from out of state…

Brian Forbes found and enticed young females, including minors, from states adjacent to Connecticut, and used a variety of threats to force the young women into providing sexual services to the ring’s clients in and around Hartford, Conn . . .

The Hartford Courant reports: “A strip club knife fight left one man injured and led to his arrest and the arrest of his friend over the weekend, police said.”

Leonard Link reports that the ACLU has sent a demand letter to H&R Block because it either fails to support online civil unions or charges more to accomodate them.

Last week the Judiciary Committee held a hearing on a bill to force Connecticut to recognize out-of-state same-sex “marriages.”

. . . the “ministerial exception” to Title VII barred plaintiff’s suit and granting defendants’ motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction.

Alison Leigh Cowan has this report on The NY Times discussing civil unions in Connecticut and the pending case before the Connecticut Supreme that seeks to redefine marriage.

“The Connecticut Catholic bishops say they support a bill in the state legislature that would increase the requirement for teenagers to get counseling before an abortion from 15 years of age to 17.”

“Planned Parenthood has held two recent events to promote a bill that would offer $1 million in incentive grants for school districts to offer increased comprehensive sex ed to teens.”

Threatened with child neglect investigations Connecticut homeschoolers are fed up and demand legislative action.

“Love Makes a Family, the state’s marriage equality organization, has a new job opening for a religious-organizing project coordinator. The position, funded by a grant from the Gill Foundation, a Colorado-based human rights organization . . .”

“You know an industry has become mainstream when its representatives are invited to address the elite institutions of higher learning.”

The Connecticut Supreme Court recently decided an important religious land use case addressing two of the most contentious issues in RLUIPA cases.

Sanctity of Life Pressing Forward: Connecticut’s Approach To Embryonic Stem Cell Research Rebekah L. Bailey, 26 Law & Ineq. 133 (2007) Pregnant Women And The Fourteenth Amendment: A Feminist Examination Of The Trend To Eliminate Women’s Rights During Pregnancy Nora …

Today’s FRC Washington Weekly Update reports on the status of the marriage battle in several states.  In addition to the states mentioned by FRC, battles over marriage or domestic partnerships are also brewing in California, Connecticut, New Jersey, New Mexico, …

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 Many are still wondering why the Connecticut Catholic hospitals changed their position this week to allow emergency contraception. New insights have come to light through interviews of the hospitals’ lawyer, but they tend to confirm the …

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 The Catholic Bishops in Connecticut yesterday reversed their position and now say that Catholic hospitals there will comply with a new state law mandating that they dispense “emergency contraception” to rape victims even if a victim …