Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Morman Church caught doing shady business on support of Prop H8


This article (ht) to my friend Maria for forwarding the news to me; had me at the edge of my seat first off, secondly we -in the gay community nation wide-are trying to get our rights of marriage passed and when things like this happens others will not take in account what we are fighting for. A Mormon Church in California tried to pull dirty business with their support of the Yes On 8 campaign, which successfully outlawed gay marriage in California, but according to a recent investigation their dirty business was exposed. "Revealing $190,000 that the church spent assisting the passage of Prop 8". The rest of this article is from Celebrity Gossip Columnist, Perez Hilton. " While members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints donated directly to the campaign, the church initially reported almost no campaign activity.
At the prodding of a campaign watchdog agency, however, the church's involvement was revealed to include airline tickets, hotel rooms, and car rentals for the campaign, as well as $96,849.31 worth of "compensated staff time."
Californians Against Hate's Fred Karger, who filed the initial complaint against the church with the Fair Political Practices Commission, said that the findings raise more questions than answers, and believes there is even more activity since the first item listed in September.
He said, "I think there is still a lot of missing parts of the report because we know they've been active since June."
The church could not be reached for comment". Again people would we be taken serious when things like this happens!!! (ht) to my friend Maria for forwarding the news to me

1 comment:

  1. Good first post, but be sure to "hide" the ugly URL (http://) like we discussed in class.

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