As of 5:00 PM PST, Sept 15, 35% of all donors to protectmarriage.com are identified as Mormons, and their total contributions make up 29% of the total money donated. The percentages are growing everyday. Please help out by checking the list to see if you can identify any other Mormon donors.
Please note: Comments discussing the data and interpretation of same are welcome, but comments debating the issues or discussing the righteousness (or lack thereof) of people on either side will be deleted.
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Hey, y’all are famous!
http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/280669/3/
Congrats!
Does anyone else think Yes on 8 is gonna reach 80%-funded by LDS? Wow.
If it’s gonna go that high, I sure wish they’d boot out the Evangelicals handling the contributions and bring in some real managers to reassure donors that their money’s not being wasted …
Orange County’s OC WATCHDOG: Crusading for ‘Judeo-Christian values’ doesn’t come cheap:
http://taxdollars.freedomblogging.com/2008/09/16/charity-spends-more-on-overhead-than-on-protecting-judeo-christian-values/
Peace.
Brad Pitt donated 100K and made a great statement about the ban.
“because no one has the right to deny another their life even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn’t harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8″
I am Mormon and I do not support this initiative to pass Proposition 8. We are the Church that values agency as the highest good and I do not feel good about removing a choice, regardless how I feel about it morally, from another individual.
If churches are going to be this involved in the political process they should lose their tax exemption status.
I am surprised to see such a blatant disregard for the separation between church and state. It is very clear in the constitution that we do not draw our morals or aims from any religion. This is very subversive and anti-american.
I totally agree.
Just like in Mormon history how other religious groups persecuted the Mormons including passing laws against them, for this tax-exempt religious organization to throw money toward this initiative is truly beyond comparison.
I can only compare it to the victim of some school yard bully turning around and bullying others.
while i am not a mormon, it troubles me greatly to hear that members of the church are mobilizing money and resources toward legally sanctioning intolerance, as is the case with this work on proposition 8. i really thought the church was above that.
if mormons are upset about gay marriage, you should take the issue up with your own church’s elders. don’t force it on the rest of the population.
i am normally respectful to mormons i meet but this is going to strain my interaction with church members.
most evangelical christians are beginning to realize that the intolerance and prejudice they have shown to the public, through their political activism, has been repelling millions of citizens who might otherwise consider joining their churches. i hope mormons come to this realization as well.
This Mormon will not support Prop 8 and will make a donation against it this very day.
The history of the Church having to flee to Utah because of religious persecution and for practicing plural marriage this is pure hypocrisy. My families roots go all the way back to the Prophet Joesph Smith and this makes me ashamed.
Sad day for the Church ……….
For those of you who would like to make comments that don’t deal specifically with the data gathering or interpretation as introduced in this thread, check out this link: What do you think about Prop 8 and this site?.
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[...] fact, 35% of the donors to protectmarraige.com are LDS [...]
I support Yes on Prop 8. My reason isn’t so much based on the act of same sex marriage. I don’t care what gays do, they have their agency & freewill. Im not here to judge them, they’ll have to answer for that on their own someday. My reason for supporting this proposition is because I don’t want my children learning about Gay marriage in school. I don’t want my Bishop to have to be forced to marry gays in my church building. Finally, I don’t want to see health care costs skyrocket because Employer A has to pay healthcare benefits to Tom & Dick who are also joined with Tom & Jerry who are joined with Tom’s dog & Tom’s mother & they are all married(joined) to each other & all should receive health care benefits because Dick is employed by Employer A. THIS is where I have the problem with the lack of definition of marriage.
Charree -
At the risk of incurring the moderators’ wrath about discussing the data rather than the arguments, it sounds like you might be interested in reading the document at this link: http://mormonsformarriage.com/?p=35
It addresses your fears and provides some background as to why bishops won’t have to marry gays in LDS church buildings and points out some of the reasons why changing California’s very inclusive “domestic partner” registration laws to “marriage” laws might not be as big of a shock to California’s businesses, schools or legal system as some have suggested.
[...] of ‘traditional’ family values, the Mormons have been a very strong force in opposition to Proposition 8 which they see as a violation of [...]