Appeal expected on disclosure of Prop. 8 donors

[alp227]

Source: SF Chronicle

(10-21) 16:43 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- A battle over the disclosure of donors to the $40 million campaign to ban same-sex marriage in California is apparently headed for higher courts after a federal judge rejected claims by backers of the 2008 ballot measure that continued exposure would endanger their contributors.

After a hearing Thursday, U.S. District Judge Morrison England of Sacramento dismissed a suit by Proposition 8 campaign committees. They wanted an exemption from the state law that makes public the names of all who contributed $100 or more.

A state website has listed the donors' names since shortly after the November 2008 passage of Prop. 8, which defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Lawyers for the measure's sponsors were unavailable Friday but indicated earlier that they would appeal an adverse ruling; other participants in the hearing said England spoke of an expected appeal.

The suit said Prop. 8 supporters had been subjected to harassment, vandalism, hate mail, boycotts, assaults and death threats.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/21/BAFQ1LKSFQ.DTL

[defendandprotect]

1. But Prop 8 isn't harassment of gays, hate-based legislation which subjects homosexuals to

assault and death threats?

WTF?



The suit said Prop. 8 supporters had been subjected to harassment, vandalism, hate mail, boycotts, assaults and death threats.

[SoapBox]

2. They don't know nothing....try living and actually BEING gay!

...I've been spit at...yelled at...bullied...harassed...over my many, many years.

I once told a gal, that was ranting about being discriminated against for being Asian and Black...I said,
she should try being gay...that shut her up.

[BR_Parkway]

4. Very well said

[dimbear]

3. Actual threat: boycotts. Decent people won't do business with bigots.

Smooth move, Utah, what with your massive dependence on tourism. Enjoy.