Posted on 01/02/2015 1:08:49 PM PST by marshmallow
Back in September, Alexandria Marie Shields and Taylor Butcher booked the Knights of Columbus hall in Madison, Indiana for the reception that will follow their upcoming wedding ceremony. On Monday, Knights of Columbus Council 934 called the couple to tell them it was refunding their deposit as they do not agree with same-sex unions. Wednesday evening, the council reversed course and has agreed to let them have the facility.
…In a Facebook post Wednesday evening, the Knights of Columbus said it would allow the reception after all. It posted “Council 934 regrets that there was some confusion over the hall rental request and that no contract was ever signed. We are happy to accommodate Taylor’s request to hold her reception there and we will waive the usual hall rental fee, given the misunderstanding that occurred.”
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Our KC council would have kicked them out if it came to our district. However, the order might have come from the state or district levels.
Why would they honor bad behavior ? Total sin and decadence.
Is this the Knights of Columbus in Queens?
this is insane....the KofC allowing gay marriage ceremonies?....they better quick change their policies....otherwise, I would advise all the members to quit, immediately....
Revoke their Charter. You are either Knights or caterers. You have brought disrepute on your council.
Hey KofC.....what if it were SKINHEADS Getting Married??? No....I didn;t think you would.
Or will it just embolden their next move?
Madison INDIANA!!! A little nothingburger town on the Ohio river in the MIDWEST!!!!
That’s the best place for the activists to start because little podunk towns do not have the resources to deal with an expensive lawsuit.
survey SEZ:
Ebolden their Next Move!!
That’s the best place for the activists to start because little podunk towns do not have the resources to deal with an expensive lawsuit.
So they’ll cave before making an issue of it.
Sad......
My first thought is that they never should have agreed to host it in the first place. But who would guess that someone named Taylor Butcher is a woman?
Wow!
Could we please get a few of our key Archbishops and Cardinals off of their duffs and formally denounce the behavior of some of these supposed “Catholic” groups, Universities, and Charities?
If you decide to make up your own rules then at least have the decency to change the sign on your door and your stationery.
wow and for free too
crazy
If they contracted to rent to them. Ir was their own fault. They should not have rented to them in the first place.
There are so many ways to have fun with a situation like this:)
You wanted air conditioning or heat? Lights? Working toilets?
“You are either Knights or caterers.”
They are likely both.
Councils with halls usually have a parallel organization that owns and runs the hall. Often, it's called the “home corporation,” as in, “Council #5555 Home Corporation.” The corporation is the actual entity that owns the hall and the catering business and services that go with it. The council controls, but does not own the corporation. The corporation must obey all federal and state statutes, including any “anti-discrimination” statutes on the books.
Thus, the council may have been under legal obligation to capitulate.
I forget the specific tax reasons for this; it has to do with taxable versus non-taxable council activities. Beyond the tax issues, Supreme strongly discourages that councils directly own real property.
For many councils, it's absolutely necessary to run a for-profit catering business out of the council home, otherwise, the council home is just unsupportable. The alternative is for the council to have no physical home, and to rely on the good graces of local pastors to allow councils to use parish facilities for their activities.
Which sometimes works out. And sometimes doesn't. It also means that the survival of a council can turn on the attitude and receptiveness of a new pastor when he rolls into a parish. I've actually seen councils without their own homes brought nearly to the point of destruction by new pastors. In one case, it required the intervention of the ordinary of the archdiocese to prevent that eventuality. In another case, it took extraordinary effort on the part of State and District officers to prevent another such destruction.
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