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The Bridgeport Diocese and the ACLU win one:
"HARTFORD - — The state ethics agency on {July 1] dropped its investigation of whether a protest rally by the Diocese of Bridgeport amounted to unregistered lobbying, a day after Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said the inquiry could chill freedom of speech and religion.
A simple statement by the ethics enforcement officer after a closed-door meeting of the ethics board ended a probe that had triggered a firestorm of negative reaction from the diocese, Catholic groups, the American Civil Liberties Union and others, who felt the agency was illegally applying the lobby-registration law to the detriment of anyone who wanted to protest in public."
courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-church-ethics-0702.artjul02,0,2573398.story?track=rss
"HARTFORD - — The state ethics agency on {July 1] dropped its investigation of whether a protest rally by the Diocese of Bridgeport amounted to unregistered lobbying, a day after Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said the inquiry could chill freedom of speech and religion.
A simple statement by the ethics enforcement officer after a closed-door meeting of the ethics board ended a probe that had triggered a firestorm of negative reaction from the diocese, Catholic groups, the American Civil Liberties Union and others, who felt the agency was illegally applying the lobby-registration law to the detriment of anyone who wanted to protest in public."
courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-church-ethics-0702.artjul02,0,2573398.story?track=rss