Posted on 08/04/2007 3:07:07 PM PDT by NYer
Do you think Father Michael McGivney (pictured above), who founded the Knights of Columbus in 1882 and whose cause for canonization is underway, would harbor pro-abortion, pro-homosexual politicians in the Order he loved?K of C ping!
Drat.
Ya beat me to it!
K of C ping!
Wow, this is sort of shocking! The Knights are a great organization, one of the biggest lay groups, with a lot of clout in the Vatican! Cardinal Bertone is giving the keynote address on Wednesday night. The KoC are involved in pro-life activities on all levels. My guess is the huge majority of Knights are serious Catholics. Carl Anderson is quite religious and sincere. But it is a travesty if he allows some high-profile politicos to degrade the good name of the Knights.
I have mixed feelings about the appropriateness of picketing an event where 99 percent of those attending might be quite holy people who have given hours or years of their lives to service and charity....? Wouldn’t a letter-writing campaign or something be better? On the other hand, I guess there must be attention brought upon these dissenters in the Knights...?
Contact: Kenneth M. Fisher, Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc. (CRCOA), 714-491-2284, 714-260-3821 cell, crcoa@dslextreme.com
ANAHEIM, Aug. 2 /Christian Newswire/ -- "As the Knights of Columbus hold their annual convention in Nashville, August 7-9, we fellow Catholics are demanding they end their hypocrisy," said Kenneth M. Fisher, founder and chairman of Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc. (CRCOA). "We call upon the Knights, especially Supreme Knight Carl Anderson, to practice the Catholic principles they brag about upholding and kick out all the pro-'gay,' pro-abortion politicians they've welcomed into their ranks." "It's long past time," Fisher continued, "for the Knights to end the scandal of embracing pro-homosexual, pro-abortion politicians who trample on the Catholic moral teachings the organization says it stands for.
"Especially, the Knights should give the boot to the 16 Massachusetts state lawmakers--all Knights in good standing--whose votes recently killed a ballot measure that would've enshrined man-woman marriage in the law and banned homosexual so-called 'marriage.' These politicians overrode 170,000 citizens who petitioned to put traditional marriage on the ballot. What's more, seven of these 'Knights' have 'pro-choice' ratings from Planned Parenthood, which runs America's biggest chain of abortion centers."
Fisher said CRCOA will start using its Web site (www.crcoa.com) to spotlight pro-homosexual, pro-abortion Knight-politicians at all levels of government. He said the Knights' organization has failed to enforce a resolution it adopted at its 2003 convention that banned pro-abortion politicians from its membership, facilities and functions. "CRCOA," Fisher explained, "defends orthodox Catholic teachings and works to expose and end false teachings, corruption and scandals. That's why we ask the Knights to clean house and restore their good name. How can they call themselves 'the strong right arm of the Church' when they harbor pro-homosexual, pro-abortion politicians--enemies of the Church--as members?"
The Knights of Columbus were founded in 1882 in New Haven, Connecticut, by a saintly parish priest, Fr. Michael McGivney, to give Catholic men a fraternal order of their own, to provide financial aid for Catholic families and to combat the rampant anti-Catholic bigotry of the day. "Shamefully," Fisher commented, "in recent decades the Knights' leaders have fallen short of Fr. McGivney's ideals. "Anderson has been in charge for more than six years now. He should do his duty before God and expel the pro-'gay,' pro-abortion politicians--or head for the door himself." This year, the Knights will meet at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Fisher said CRCOA will picket from 8:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on August 7, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on August 8, and from 7:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on August 9.
From the link in #8...
Is it too late for the K of C?
This 45-55 vote is saying that KNIGHTS were the deciding factor in PREVENTING the voters in Massachusetts from a say at the polls in regard to this marriage amendment.
Do I have that correct?
I am posting my email here...please write.
Dear Carl:
I’m writing you from Dade City, Florida. I moved out of CT last year because of how dangerous the northeast is becoming spiritually.
A Knight cannot be allowed to stand as a K of C member with a voting pattern as we’ve seen recently in Massachusetts. A marriage in God’s eyes is between a man and a woman, nothing else. Those 16 Knights have denied the voters in Massachusetts their moral say at the polls in this matter.
You as Supreme Knight MUST do what is right in the Lord’s eyes and EXPEL everyone of the so called knights from Massachusetts. Use the annual gathering to effect change against satan.
Please let me know what I can do from down here. We are all praying for you to do what is right. We will all be judged by Him for our actions AND IN-ACTIONS.
God Bless.
George yyy
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Dade City, FL 33523
I don’t know how the the law was written, I think it was supposed to be on the ballot and they voted to keep it off.
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jul/07070605.html
16 State Legislators (1 Republican, 15 Democrats) who are members of the Knights of Columbus voted for Homosexual Marriage.
Speaker of the House Sal Dimasi; House Majority Leader John Rogers; Reps. Garrett Bradley, Bob Deleo, Stephen Di Natale, Chris Donelan, Christopher Fallon, Kevin Honan, Charles Murphy, Angelo Puppolo, Bob Spellane, Bob Nyman, and Paul McMurtry; Senators Tom McGee, Michael Knapik, and Michael Morrissey.
Among these, seven are rated “pro-choice” by Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts’ Advocacy Fund: Dimasi, Bradley, Donelan, Honan, Murphy, Spellane, and McGee.
Thanks for doing the KC ping. I don’t think all of us knew you were now doing it.
I must be more humble: No, I’m neither the official (nor- unofficial!) KofC pinger, though if I get a ping list from the previous Freeper-who-knows-that-list-is, I’ll do my best to get the Word out to all on that list.
Speaker of the House Sal Dimasi; House Majority Leader John Rogers; Reps. Garrett Bradley, Bob Deleo, Stephen Di Natale, Chris Donelan, Christopher Fallon, Kevin Honan, Charles Murphy, Angelo Puppolo, Bob Spellane, Bob Nyman, and Paul McMurtry; Senators Tom McGee, Michael Knapik, and Michael Morrissey.
Among these, seven are rated “pro-choice” by Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts’ Advocacy Fund: Dimasi, Bradley, Donelan, Honan, Murphy, Spellane, and McGee.
It IS those seven pro-abortion "catholics" who must be exposed or punished, and YES, they should be expelled from the Knights. Political expediency (or pro-democratic votes, which are usually equally evil and self-serving) cannot be tolerated among practicing Catholics.
There are alot more than 16, only 16 list their affiliation with the K of C.
Sal DiMasi is also an Episcopalian.
BTTT!
Thanks for posting this.
Frank
That's the weird thing about the Democrat party. It has this strange generational loyalty thing going over so many different groups (white Southerners, Blacks, Catholics, Jews, laborers, immigrants), and for some reason loyalty to the positions of the Democrat party seems to outweigh loyalty to the official positions of the religions that make up its membership.
What's up with that???
PS: Rejection of moral teachings had its "genesis" (pardon the irony) in the rejection of total Biblical inerrancy. So long as the Church permits or even encourages a rejection of Biblical inerrancy the fight for moral orthodoxy is hopeless.
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