The Knights of Columbus spent more than $6 million nationwide to put the kibosh on statewide efforts to legalize same-sex civil marriage prior to the 2015 Supreme Court decision, thereby attempting to deprive millions of citizens, most of them non-Catholic, their 14th amendment right to equal protection under the law as well as the 1138 rights and privileges civil marriage affords, many of them financial. I wouldn't call that altruistic I would call that sadistic, which is why the Knights haven't seen a dime of my money in years.