Reply #24: The LDS Church didn't donate money to support "yes on 8" [View All]

[CubicleGuy]

Most of the money donated came from individual members in California, who were encouraged to donate their time, money and talents to the cause of voting in Prop 8 by the leadership in SLC. But the Church itself, only donated around $2,000 in travel expenses at the beginning of the campaign, at least that's my understanding.

I saw a report that says $400,000 (out of a total of $70,000,000 spent by both sides) came from Idaho, but I don't know the details on that.

My opinion from the beginning on this was that this was an ill-conceived attempt to prevent same-sex marriage. When the wording of Prop 22 was declared to be unconstitutional, it shouldn't have taken a rocket scientist to figure out that jamming the wording into the constitution itself as Prop 8 could only be a desperate, bad idea that would cause more problems than it was intended to solve.

There are going to be a lot of really unhappy people when the Supreme Court tosses this one out. The assumption that making it part of the constitution would protect it from the court will be demonstrated to have been a major act of legal and political ignorance.