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September 21, 2008

Mormons underwriting California Anti-Gay ballot measure

Gay Rights Watch reported a recent poll showing that California's anti-gay marriage amendment appears to be headed for a sound defeat.

I have previously posted about how Prop 8 chief Ron Prentice is lining his own pockets with donation money. But what's really interesting about all of this is the humongous Mormon connection with Prop 8.

The blog Mormons for Prop 8 reported that as of this past Thursday,

Currently 31% of the total amount of donations over $1000 to protectmarriage.com has come from Mormon donors. That’s a pretty impressive number, given that only about 2% of the state's population is Mormon. However, we believe that the actual percentage is much higher.

In fact, they estimate that when it's all said and done that approximately 80% of Prop 8's funding will have come from Mormons, who make up only about 2% of the state's population.

This is all fraught with profound irony given how heavily persecuted the early Mormons were for having unorthodox beliefs. But what's not entirely clear to me is WHY the Mormons are so heavily underwriting Prop 8. Is it because they have such a big problem with unorthodox beliefs being accepted by society at large? Or is this more an attempt to buy their way into the good graces of American Fundi-Cons?

Posted by Kevin at September 21, 2008 10:53 AM