{"id":24672,"date":"2009-05-29T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T18:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/connecticut-state-ethics-offic\/"},"modified":"2009-05-29T14:24:10","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T18:24:10","slug":"connecticut-state-ethics-offic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/connecticut-state-ethics-offic\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut State Ethics Office charges Diocese of Bridgeport violated law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Connecticut State Officials try to muzzle the Church!<\/span>&nbsp;In a letter to the people of the Diocese of Bridgeport today, Bishop William Lori states that the gathering of people to protest Bill 1098 that would violate the First Amendment, <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">was a violation of law<\/span>. The State of Connecticut Ethics committee said this mobilizing of the people amounted to &#8220;lobbying&#8221; because the Diocese failed to register as a lobbyist (which would invite State regulation). Now the claim is that the Diocese is subject to penalties.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Exhorting the people, i.e., giving information to the people, encouraging the people to take part in democracy, forming the consciences of the people from the pulpit, web-based materials and rallying <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">does not constitute lobbying<\/span><\/span>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Nutmegers need to contact the State legislator <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">before the end of the legislative session this coming Wednesday<\/span>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Diocese of Bridgeport is filing a civil rights lawsuit in Federal Court against the State of Connecticut seeking relief from government action on this ruling.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For more information see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgeportdiocese.com\/story_Ethics.shtml\">Diocese of Bridgeport website<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connecticut State Officials try to muzzle the Church!&nbsp;In a letter to the people of the Diocese of Bridgeport today, Bishop William Lori states that the gathering of people to protest Bill 1098 that would violate the First Amendment, was a violation of law. The State of Connecticut Ethics committee said this mobilizing of the people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/connecticut-state-ethics-offic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Connecticut State Ethics Office charges Diocese of Bridgeport violated law<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,62],"tags":[2114,1743],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}