As of 7:21 PM on Sept 6, there were 2870 donors of $1000 or more on listed on our spreadsheet. 41 of those are not Mormon. 524, or 18%, have been identified as LDS. In addition, there are 24 donors from Utah, and only about half have been positively identified as LDS. As you can see there are still quite a few towns where we have little or no data, so keep on sending in your information.
18% of donors identified as LDS and Growing
September 6th, 2008 | Uncategorized
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As of 9:05 PM on Sept 8, donor percentages for donations of $1,000 or more are as follows:
2,894 total donors - 607 LDS (about 21%)
$12,942,324.07 total - $2,373,223 (just more than 18%)
As of 12:25 p.m. PDT time on Sept 9th:
3,059 donors - 749 identified as LDS so far (24%)
$13,720,274.07 total - $2,844,322 LDS (almost 21%)
I find it ironic that an organization historically persecuted for its own sexual practices and definition of “family” would be so anxious to persecute others. I was raised Mormon and have been conflicted about having left the church. Thank you for helping make it easier to move on and leave the church behind. We are your bothers, sisters, sons and daughters. When you persecute us you are only destroying your own famlies
This isn’t about persecution and I feel sorry that you feel that way. Church leaders have adamantly said that this isn’t an attack on homosexuality. Personally, I feel you have to take a stand some time. If this is a “discrimination” or “persecution” issue where does it end? If I was someone who was a man and loved boys, or a polygamist, the same rational could be used that I’m being discriminated against as well. I hope you find the peace you need.
Well, Liz, I read a blog entry from an African American woman who is married to a white man. She said that if interracial marriage were still illegal, and if you were trying to keep it that way, she would have a hard time believing that you were doing that because you loved her. I think she would also have a hard time believing that you weren’t discriminating against her.
Gay people feel the same way.
I can understand your point, even though it didn’t address the comment I was making. Can you understand my point about not wanting to accept an everything goes attitude? I have an additional website suggestion to add to the blogroll: iprotectmarriage.com
It’s targeted at the youth vote.
Liz,
The slippery slope argument is a logical fallacy.
First, you are the one who is talking about pedophilia and polygamy. You bring those things up, because you can’t really find anything wrong with gay marriage, so you have to associate it with something you don’t like.
Second, saying gay marriage will lead to polygamy is like saying that turning right at the stop sign will lead to driving your car into the house on the corner. Obviously, you wouldn’t drive your car into a house any more than you would legalize pedophilia.
We are able to have laws that allow good change and that don’t lead to bad change. Just like we can turn right and stay on the road without turning right and continuing to turn until we drive into a house.
This is just sad. Marriage, whether between a man and a woman, two men, or two women, protects families (gay men and women have both biological and adopted children in case you weren’t aware), promotes monogamy, provides personal support through long term relationships, and decreases STD’s that result from promiscuity.
Why does your church wish to fight against that? Do you really all believe that a legal contract binding in this life ONLYhas any bearing on, correct me if I’m wrong, Mormon ETERNAL marriage, or are you having doubts about your religion? That I could understand. Or is it some sort of twisted need to have someone to look down on? That’s generally a symptom of low self esteem. I understand, I’ve been there (had some crazed bible-thumping parents myself). Get some Prozac, I hear there’s a lot of it in Utah.