"Maine voices: Catholic group's anti-gay marriage effort contradicts its history [View all]

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"NORTH WATERBORO - The Venerable Father Michael McGivney was a parish priest in New Haven, Conn., at the end of the 19th century.

He watched as his congregation struggled through the pain of anti-Catholic discrimination. His congregants toiled under poor working conditions in sweatshops, in which many were injured or killed. At the time, insurance companies would not cover Catholic immigrants, leaving many Catholic widows and orphans penniless and dependent on the charity of the church.

Father McGivney created the Knights of Columbus as a fraternal organization to alleviate the suffering this discrimination caused and to create a life insurance program to protect the economic stability and security of these families.

From 2008 to 2010, the Knights of Columbus has donated more than $3 million to weaken the stability and security of gay and lesbian families by funding campaigns to deny same-sex couples the freedom to marry. I urge the Knights of Columbus to remember its history and its pro-family principles and to stop funding campaigns that write discrimination into the laws of Maine and other states."

http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/catholic-groups-anti-gay-marriage-effort-contradicts-its-history_2012-07-30.html