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KNIGHT
NEWS & NOTES:
New
Officers for 2007-2008
Chaplain
Father Melvin Hemann
Grand Knight
Chad
Feldmann
D Grand Knight
Mark Hannasch
Chancellor
Dale Willie
Recorder
Ken Keller
Fin. Secretary
Brian Luecke
Treasurer
Ken Kremer
Advocate
Kevin Engels
Warden
Darrell Ludwig
Inside Guard
Neil Francois
Outside Guard
Jeff Byers
TRUSTEES
One Year
Larry Lyman
Two Year
Roger Fiscus
Three Year
Pat Shields
Career
Opportunity
:
The
Knights of Columbus is seeking a Field Agent for a career opportunity
representing their insurance program. We offer a complete benefits
package with this full-time position. In order to qualify, one must
be eligible for membership in the Knights of Columbus. For more
information, please contact Martin Wernimont, General Agent, at
319-268-1492 or e-mail at www.wernimontagency@yahoo.com.
Do
you have news or information for our Newsletter?
Please email or mail information and/or articles to me by the 23rd
of each month. I can be
reached by phone at 277-1314, by mail at
2719 Country Meadow Lane
Ct.
Cedar Falls
,
IA
50613
or via email at
mhannasch@cfu.net
Thank
You!
Mark
Hannasch, Deputy
Grand Knight
(Council 4516)
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DATES TO
REMEMBER
Thursday,
September 20th
– Council meeting in the Commons
7:00
dinner at
6:00 p.m.
SAVE
THE DATE!
Saturday,
December 8th
– 50th Anniversary of Council 4516 Dinner & Dance at St.
Patrick’s church. More
details in future newsletters.
GRAND KNIGHTS REPORT
Greeting Fellow Knights!
First of all I want to thank all those who participated in the family
picnic that we had in August. The turnout was good and the food was
excellent and I think that is a great way to start the year off.
Now that we are in September we will have our first normal business
meeting on the 3rd Thursday of the month, the 20th, as is standard.
Please mark it on your calendars and participate and give us a good
turnout.
We have some important topics to discuss, including the planning of the
"Tootsie Roll" drive that we do every year to collect money in
support of those with mental disabilities. We will need volunteers
for this drive to make sure that it is as successful as it has been in
past years.
In addition, we will discuss the Football Frenzy program. This
sweepstakes gives people both a chance to win cash prizes but also helps
our chapter, and it is a great opportunity for us to have some fun,
especially if you like football.
On another IMPORTANT matter:
The last thing I want to say is that I hope every Knight will pray that
God will help us in this state to uphold the sanctity of marriage.
This great Sacrament that Christ sanctified while on earth was put under
attack and we need to pray that this great injustice is overturned.
An
Iowa
judge ruled Wednesday, the 29th, that the state's "gay marriage"
ban violated the Constitution's protections for due process and equal
protection of the laws.
Polk
County
judge Robert Hansen immediately ordered county officials to give marriage
licenses to the six gay couples who had sued to overturn the ban.
Matt Barber, Policy Director for Cultural Issues with Concerned Women for
America
, stated his analysis of the event. "Once again we have another
renegade judge abusing the authority he's been granted and arbitrarily
legislating from the bench. Hanson is a judicial activist.
He's just one man - a county judge - who has haughtily trampled on the
concept of separation of powers, the elected state legislature and the
people of
Iowa
in order to push his own radical agenda. It's preposterous to think
that the framers of the
Iowa
constitution could have even imagined that the document they were drafting
would someday be distorted in such a way as to force "'gay'
marriage" upon
Iowa
," said Barber.
The judge granted a stay for the order only twenty-four hours after he
issued it, allowing the county prosecutor to appeal the decision, but by
that time, 23 homosexual couples had applied for licenses. However, only
one couple managed to obtain a marriage certificate before the stay was
granted, using a legal loophole that allows the three-day waiting period
to be waived with a judge's order. They were "married" by
a Unitarian minister, who upon completing the ceremony declared to the two
men, "this is a legal document
and you are married".
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty filed a brief in the case in early
August, stating that if same-sex "marriage" were approved, the
legal consequences would be catastrophic for religious freedom in the
US
. The organization warned that those who reject homosexual behavior
would be exposed to lawsuits for refusing to provide services or benefits
to same sex "spouses". Their arguments also failed to sway
Judge Hansen.
Unfortunately, this could mean that a KC chapter such as the one in
Waterloo
could literally be sued by a "gay married couple" if the Knights
refused to let them have their "wedding reception" at their club
house. God help us!
Yours in Faith,
Grand Knight Chad Feldmann
DISTRICT DEPUTY REPORT
No
report submitted.
Knight
of the Month for August:
Neil Francis
Family
of the Month for August:
Tim & Wendy
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