News Release on Federal Court Ruling re Prop 8 Contributors

SACRAMENTO (AP) – Federal judge denies request to keep donors to California’s anti-gay marriage initiative secret.

Statement by Fred Karger, Founder of Californians Against Hate regarding today’s Federal Court Ruling on Proposition 8 Contributors:

The Court today did the right thing by upholding California’s 35 year old Political Reform Act. The law requires that all contributors of $100 and above to state campaigns be reported and available to the public. Every California campaign has abided by this law for over three decades.

It is truly unfortunate that in the heat of a campaign donors are subjected to any undue attention. This has sadly been the case on both sides of last November’s highly emotional Proposition 8 campaign. But the law passed by the voters in 1974 has served our state well all these years and must remain in place.

The Executive Board of ProtectMarriage.com, who filed this lawsuit, sent a letter to many major donors to No on 8 – Equality California threatening to expose them and take action against their companies unless they gave to the Yes on 8 campaign. Now they complain of harassment?

Gay and lesbian donors fighting several anti gay initiatives in California beginning with the 1978 Briggs Initiative (Prop 6) have contributed to these campaigns in fear of job loss and being outed to their families. No exemption from the law was ever requested.

The Mormon Church and all the other major supporters of Proposition 8 knew the law when they qualified their Constitutional Amendment for the November ballot and must abide by it. The Mormon Church basically required over 60,000 of its members throughout the country to give nearly $25 million to take away the right to marry for same-sex couples in California. After winning their very deceitful campaign by only 4% points, they now hoped to keep the names secret of another 6,600 donors who must be reported on Monday, February 2nd. This is despicable.

The Mormon Church is currently under an active investigation by the California Fair Political Practices Commission – FPPC (Case # 080735) for allegedly not reporting what could amount to be hundreds of thousands of dollars of non monetary contributions to the Yes on 8 campaign. While this investigation is underway, their law suit named FPPC Chairman Ross Johnson and the other four Commissioners as defendants. Also named were California Attorney General Jerry Brown and Secretary of State Debra Bowen.

Well, if the Salt Lake City based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is going to be that involved California elections, they have to play by the rules. What is the Mormon Church trying to hide?

The Mormon Church is not a named plaintiff in the Federal lawsuit, and through its spokeswoman even denied knowledge of its existence, it certainly must be behind it. They have clearly been the focus of the post election unhappiness.

The Mormon Church is in the midst of a self admitted PR offensive to resuscitate its wounded image as a result of their heavy handed involvement in the Yes on Prop 8 campaign (see ABC’s Nightline segment from January 9, 2009 http://www.truveo.com/Mormon-Leaders-Russell-Ballard-and-Quentin-Cook-on/id/696616726 ). This lawsuit is clearly an attempt by the Church to demonize its opponents, while having others front for them. They have a long and documented history of this type of activity.

We, like all millions of other Californians, applaud the Court’s decision today, and look forward to reviewing the thousands of additional donors to both sides of the Prop 8 campaign when the report comes out on Monday.
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Mormon Fight Over Disclosure of Prop. 8 Donors

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s attorney general and election watchdogs are fighting back against a federal lawsuit seeking to bar disclosure of late donors to the state’s same-sex marriage ban.Attorney General Jerry Brown, Secretary of State Debra Bowen and the Fair Political Practices Commission jointly filed arguments this week opposing the suit by the Proposition 8 campaign.Ross Johnson, FPPC chairman, said Friday that the suit is “out to destroy campaign finance disclosure by a death-of-a-thousand cuts. I don’t intend to let that happen on my watch.”U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. is set to hear oral arguments Thursday.

The suit seeks a court order exempting Proposition 8 committees from identifying people who donated shortly before or after the Nov. 4 election. Previous contributors already have been named.California’s Political Reform Act, approved by voters in 1974, requires disclosure of the name, occupation and employer of anyone contributing $100 or more to campaigns.The suit challenges the constitutionality of the disclosure requirement, claiming donors to Proposition 8 have been ravaged by e-mails, phone calls and postcards even death threats.Ron Prentice, chairman of Yes on 8, contends that hundreds of people have alleged harassment, intimidation or threats. Attorneys for Proposition 8 assert that First Amendment rights to be free from retaliation outweigh the state’s interest in disclosure.

Brown, Bowen and the FPPC counter that disclosure requirements assist the state in detecting efforts to hide the identities of large donors and illegal spending of political funds for personal use.”Political democracy demands open debate, including prompt disclosure of the identities of campaign donors,” Brown said in a written statement.Victims of harassment should sue or file criminal charges not strip election records to “carve out a special privilege of anonymity for themselves alone,” he said.Noting that Proposition 8 attracted 36,000 contributions totaling $30 million, the state contends no clear evidence exists that the measure was hurt by fear of reprisal.That argument misses the point, attorney James Bopp Jr. said, because harassment occurred only after donors sent their money.

Bopp said the state has no compelling reason to disclose donations as low as $100.”Surely, there’s no one in the state who would be influenced to vote for or against an initiative because Joe Blow gave $100,” he said.Since balloting for Proposition 8 is over, there is no way that keeping names confidential could affect the outcome, Bopp added.The suit would not bar investigations of misspending because the state could obtain donors’ names by auditing campaign committees, without making them public, he said.If successful, the suit would apply only to Yes on 8 committees. Besides barring disclosure of late donors, it would ban the public from viewing names previously released.

Rick Warren Coverage — Media Matters Set the Record Straight

Reporting on Warren’s invocation, NY Times repeatedly ignored his comparison of same-sex marriage to incest, pedophilia, polygamy

Summary: In separate articles, The New York Times mischaracterized opposition to the selection of Rev. Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation as a function solely of Warren’s opposition to same-sex marriage or same-sex marriage and abortion. In fact, Warren has compared same-sex marriage to incest, pedophilia, and polygamy.

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In January 19 and January 20 articles, The New York Times mischaracterized opposition to the selection of Rev. Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation as a function solely of Warren’s opposition to same-sex marriage or same-sex marriage and abortion. Neither article noted that Warren has compared same-sex marriage to incest, pedophilia, and polygamy. By contrast, a January 21 Boston Globe article about Warren’s invocation noted Warren “compared gay relationships to incest and polygamy,” and a January 21 Los Angeles Times editorial about same-sex marriage noted that Warren “has infuriated many by equating homosexual unions with incest, child molestation and polygamy.”

Similarly, a January 20 USA Today
article about the invocation delivered by “[c]ontroversial evangelical pastor Rick Warren” reported that he “has been excoriated for weeks by gay rights activists outraged that a leading opponent of gay marriage had been offered a national podium by Obama” but did not note Warren’s comments.

As Media Matters for America has
noted, in a Beliefnet.com interview, Warren compared same-sex marriage to “having a brother and sister being together and calling that marriage … an older guy marrying a child and calling that marriage [or] … one guy having multiple wives and calling that marriage.”

From the January 20 Times
article, headlined “Few Protesters at Inauguration”:

Some advocates of gay rights booed when the Rev. Rick Warren of California’s Saddleback Church delivered the invocation. Mr. Warren, one of the nation’s best-known evangelical preachers, opposes gay marriage. He spoke at Mr. Obama’s invitation. About 100 people rallied outside his church in Lake Forest, Calif., on Monday to protest his inclusion in the inaugural ceremonies.

From the January 19 Times article, headlined “Transition Holds Clues to How Obama Will Govern”:
Mr. Obama opted not to play it safe during the transition. He brought his Democratic rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton, into the cabinet, and angered gay and liberal supporters by inviting the Rev. Rick Warren, an opponent of abortion and same-sex marriage, to give the inaugural invocation. Although Mr. Obama deferred foreign affairs with his “one president at a time” rule, that did not apply to domestic policy, where he lobbied Congress to release $350 billion in financial bailout money and set about negotiating roughly $800 billion in spending programs and tax breaks.

From the January 20 USA Today article:

Controversial evangelical pastor Rick Warren opened Barack Obama’s inaugural ceremony Tuesday by touching on the two greatest prayers in Judaism and Christianity and asking God to grace the nation with clarity, responsibility and civility, “even when we differ.”
Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., has been excoriated for weeks by gay rights activists outraged that a leading opponent of gay marriage had been offered a national podium by Obama.
—A.J.W.

Sean Penn on Prop 8: Shame on Mormons and Blacks

by Steven Mikulan

January 15, 2009 9:39 AM

Last night’s L.A. Times Gold Derby blog presented a video clip of a somber Sean Penn at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, where his portrayal of gay icon Harvey Milk had won the Best Actor Award. Penn did not look to be in the mood for a political discussion, but when asked by Tom O’Neil and Scott Feinberg about the passage of Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage initiative, Penn didn’t hold back.

“The Proposition 8 thing was a fiasco in California. Mormon movement should be ashamed of itself, the black constituency that supported Prop 8 should be ashamed of itself.” Penn was less certain of whether or not a pre-election day release of Milk would have helped beat Prop 8.

Tom Hanks Says Mormon Supporters of Proposition 8 ‘Un-American’

Friday, January 16, 2009

By Hollie McKay
Fox News

Tom Hanks says supporting Proposition 8 is discriminatory.

LOS ANGELES —

Tom Hanks Says Mormon Supporters of Prop-8 “Un-American”

Tom Hanks, an Executive Producer for HBO’s controversial polygamist series “Big Love,” made his feelings toward the Mormon Church’s involvement in California’s Prop 8 (which prohibits gay marriage) very clear at the show’s premiere party on Wednesday night.

“The truth is this takes place in Utah, the truth is these people are some bizarre offshoot of the Mormon Church, and the truth is a lot of Mormons gave a lot of money to the church to make Prop-8 happen,” he told Tarts. “There are a lot of people who feel that is un-American, and I am one of them. I do not like to see any discrimination codified on any piece of paper, any of the 50 states in America, but here’s what happens now. A little bit of light can be shed, and people can see who’s responsible, and that can motivate the next go around of our self correcting Constitution, and hopefully we can move forward instead of backwards. So let’s have faith in not only the American, but Californian, constitutional process.”

When informed of the “Forrest Gump” star’s comments, Kim Farah, a spokesperson for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, told Tarts, “Expressing an opinion in a free and democratic society is as American as it gets.”

Bill McKeever, a rep for the Mormonism Research Ministry, added, “Personally, I find it un-American to tell people that they shouldn’t vote their conscience. Hanks said he doesn’t ‘like to see any discrimination codified on any piece of paper.’ Considering that just about every law discriminates in some form or another, makes this comment ridiculous. Hanks’ comment shows that he very much believes in discriminating against people with whom he disagrees. I may not agree with Mormon theology, but I certainly defend their right to express their opinion.

American News Project Reveals Mormon Prop 8 Bombshell

NEWS RELEASE

Video News Story Uncovers Secret

Transcript and Audio of Church’s Simulcast

Steven Greenstreet, Producer at the prestigious American News Project (ANP)
http://americannewsproject.com/ a Washington, D.C. based news organization, just released a 7 minute video with brand new information on what some are calling proof that the Salt Lake City, Utah based Mormon Church spent large sums of money to communicate with California voters in order to pass Prop 8 last fall. The Church had released only a 4 minute edited down version of its hour long simulcast on its web site last October that was broadcast to every Mormon Church building in 5 Western States. ANP obtained written and audio copies of the entire broadcast, including the missing 56 minutes.

I will today forward this information to the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) in Sacramento. The FPPC is in the midst of an active investigation of the Mormon Church’s alleged lack of reporting of its direct expenditures on behalf of Prop 8.

Click on the headline below to take you to this amazing story:

Prop 8 – Did Mormons Go Too Far?

By Steven Greenstreet on Jan 14, 2009
Activists claim that money from the Mormon Church was the deciding factor in passing Proposition 8 in California – banning gay marriage. The church claims to have only spent a few thousand dollars on the campaign, but ANP has uncovered evidence that may expose a gaping hole in that claim. Also, the IRS forbids religious organizations from “substantially” lobbying for political legislation. Did the Mormon Church violate this law?


Keywords:
confidential, exposed, gay marriage, internal revenue service, IRS, law, lobbying, mormon church, mormons, prop 8, proposition 8, secret, tax

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And it’s up on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWCum9yQhTg

Rick Warren $3.00 Bill

Californians Against Hate Today Released it’s latest salvo to draw public attention to President-elect Obama’s bad choice of Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his Inauguration next Tuesday. Warren, who was a big supporter of California’s Prop 8, just equated gays and lesbians in an interview with the Wall Street Journal to pedophiles, incest and an offense often associated with his Prop 8 Mormon allies, polygamy. Thanks, Rick!

Take a real close look at this photo of Warren. And feel free to use it on your web site or blog and please forward it around.


Thank you!

News Coverage – Californians Against Hate

Instant Pride – Fred Karger on Fox — http://www.instantpride.com/422/2008/12/24

Air America Radio – Fred Karger guest — http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/3804628

San Francisco Chronicle — http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/08/BAF915651F.DTL&type=politics

Sacramento Bee — http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/1528152.html

San Diego Union-Tribune — http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jan/10/1m10boycott002758-scholarly-types-see-lessons-boyc/?zIndex=35006

Laguna Beach Independent — http://www.lagunabeachindependent.com/news/2008/1226/front_page/002.html

Gay and Lesbian Times —
http://www.gaylesbiantimes.com/?id=13741&from=rss

Gay and Lesbian Times —
http://www.gaylesbiantimes.com/?id=13766

Towleroad — http://www.towleroad.com/2008/12/towleroad-gui-8.html

Towleroad — http://www.towleroad.com/2009/01/prop-8-supports.html

NLSNGRC Blog — http://nlsngrc.blogspot.com/2008/12/stuart-varney-of-fox-business-channel.html

Topix — http://www.topix.com/news/gay/2008/12/fred-karger-talks-about-prop-8-related-boycott

Queensspeech — http://queensspeech.com/conversations/topix-gay-news/fred_karger_talks_about_prop_8_related_boycott

Manchester.com — http://manchester.com.es/californians-against-hate-founder-on-boycotts-of-prop-8-contributors-businesses

Lesbians of Color — http://lesbianofcolor.blogspot.com/2008/12/feb-20-solo-mujeres.html

The Daily Horse — http://ttthomas.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/mormon-mandingo-phobia

Mike Tidmus — http://www.miketidmus.com/blog/2008/12/30/fred-kargers-fox-interview

Pink Banana World — http://www.pinkbananaworld.com/content-detail.cfm?id=174284

Prespectives.com — http://www.perspectives.com/forums/view_topic.php?id=194804&forum_id=91

Lez Get Real — http://lezgetreal.com/2008/12/boycotts-lez-do-it-right.html

Protect All Marriage — http://protectallmarriage.blogspot.com/2008/12/free-90-minute-documentary-times-of.html

Protect All Marriage — http://protectallmarriage.blogspot.com/2008/12/free-no-on-prop-and-marriage-equality.html

National Organization for Women — http://www.canow.org/canoworg/2008/12/dump-rick-warren-or-religious-invocations.html

What Comes After 8 — http://after8pgh.blogspot.com/2008/12/start-new-year-right.html

Eleven Five — http://elevenfive.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/in-space-no-one-can-hear-you-complain

Stop Ben Lyons — http://www.stopbenlyons.com/2008/11/boycott-sundance.html?widgetType=BlogArchive&widgetId=BlogArchive1&action=toggle&dir=close&toggle=YEARLY-1199174400000&toggleopen=MONTHLY-1228118400000

Justin McLachlan — http://justinmclachlan.com/09/01/californians-against-hate-says-campaign-finance-lawsuit-is-despicable

Mike Tidmus — http://www.miketidmus.com/blog/2009/01/08/fred-karger-on-the-proph8-crybabies

Ravenhurst — http://ravenhurst-ravenhurst.blogspot.com/2009/01/poor-poor-catholics-poor-poor-mormons.htm

Virtue on Line — http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=9718

Box Turtle Bulletin — http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/01/08/7881

Catholic News Agency — http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14732

Lavender Newswire — http://news.lavenderliberal.com/2009/01/09/more-on-prop-8-down-low-donors

The Christian Post — http://christianpost.com/Society/Homosexuality/2008/11/mormons-under-investigation-over-calif-marriage-efforts-30

MAS — http://masteradriannl2.multiply.com/journal/item/7274/Gay_Groups_Call_Attempt_To_Hide_Donor_List_Hypocritical

NGblog — http://nlsngrc.blogspot.com/2009/01/fred-karger-californians-against-hate.html

The Melting Pot Project — http://www.meltingpotproject.com/mpp/2009/01/when-gays-attack.html

On Top Magazine — http://ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=3025&MediaType=1&Category=26

The Right Time and Place — http://righttimeandplace.blogspot.com/2009/01/boycott.html

California Chronicles — http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/view/87501

On Top — http://ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=3038&MediaType=1&Category=26

2015 Place — http://www.2015place.com/2009/01/gay-news-magazine-headlines-t24t-2_11.html

Justin McLachlan — http://justinmclachlan.com/09/01/californians-against-hate-mormon-church-campaign-finance-lawsuit

Bishop Gene Robinson to Deliver Prayer

Washington Post



Inauguration Week



Gay Bishop to Deliver Prayer at Inaugural Concert

By Jacqueline L. Salmon

Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson, an openly gay man whose ordination helped touch off a worldwide struggle within the Anglican church over homosexuality and Scripture, will deliver the invocation Sunday at a concert to kick off the inaugural celebrations, officials said today.

The concert at the Lincoln Memorial, will feature performances by Beyonce, Bono and Bruce Springsteen, among others.




The Rev. Sharon E. Watkins, who leads the liberal-leaning Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), was tapped to give the sermon in the National Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral, which concludes the inaugural ceremonies — the first woman to lead that service.

The selections of Robinson and Watkins round out a group of theologically diverse ministers who will play prominent roles during the Obama inauguration. Evangelical pastor Rick Warren will deliver the invocation during the inaugural ceremony — a choice that
riled some Obama supporters because of Warren’s opposition to gay marriage — while the Rev. Joseph Lowery, a black Methodist civil rights activist, will give the benediction.



Shaun Casey, an ethics professor at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington who served as an Obama campaign adviser, said the diverse choice of ministers is a “precursor of what the administration is going to look like.”

“It’s an extension of who Obama is,” he said.



Robinson endorsed Obama for president before the New Hampshire primary — one of the first prominent religious leaders to land in Obama’s camp. He served as a faith adviser to the campaign and also advised it on gay-rights issues.



But he called Obama’s choice of Warren to deliver the invocation a “slap in the face.” Warren
supported California’s Proposition 8 this fall, a measure that voters approved, outlawing gay marriage in the state.



In
an e-mail to friends posted today on the Web site Episcopal Cafe, Robinson wrote, “[I]t will be my great honor to be there representing the Episcopal Church, the people of New Hampshire, and all of us in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.”

The Mormon Post Prop 8 PR Campaign…The Law Suit

Last week in a deplorable act, California’s Yes on Proposition 8 campaign filed a law suit in Federal Court to permanently throw out the California Political Reform Act passed by the voters in 1974. The very group led by the Mormon Church that insisted the voters have the final say on the issue of gay marriage, now wants to change California’s 35 year old election law to keep contributors to all initiative campaigns secret.

They claim that a handful of their over 64,000 contributors have been harassed since Prop 8’s narrow victory on November 4th. This frivolous law suit is their latest publicity stunt in an effort to change their image and demonize the gay community which was just stripped of its freedom to marry in California, just as it has been in 29 other states.

This issue should not have been on the ballot in the first place. The proponents of this law suit spent over $2 million to hire hundreds of professional signature gatherers to qualify Prop 8 for the November ballot just as same-sex marriage became the law of the land. Now they want to change the rules.

Who is behind this law suit? The filing lists ProtectMarriage.com the coalition which managed Yes on Prop 8 from day one, and the Princeton, New Jersey based National Organization for Marriage (NOM) which raised most of the $2 million to qualify Prop 8.

The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), a conservative Christian legal organization based in Arizona filed the lawsuit. Guess who helped start the ADF? James Dobson who runs the Colorado based Focus on the Family for one. Focus on the Family gave $623,000 to Yes on Prop 8. Also listed as a founder of ADF is Donald Wildmon who runs the Tupelo, Mississippi based American Family Association (AFA) which gave $500,000 to Yes on 8. AFA is also the Boycott leader of the world. They have organized over 25 national boycotts against American companies who support equal rights for women and minorities. Now they are complaining about boycotts? Other big financial backers of AFA are Blackwater founder, Erik Prince, whose mother Elsa Prince gave $450,000 to Yes on 8, and her relatives Richard and Helen DeVos. And of course so is William Bolthouse, founder of Bolthouse Farms, who was a very early $100,000 contributor to ProtectMarriage.com.

But the real force behind this latest gay bashing attempt has got to be the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints aka the Mormon Church. Yes, the same Mormon Church which raised nearly $25 million from its members for their Prop 8 campaign.

The Mormon Church has recently embarked on a new Public Relations campaign to “redefine” its image,” which it says is being “defined by others.” They just hosted a press dinner at their Salt Lake City Temple for print and radio reporters as well as ABC’s Nightline. Nightline did a very interesting segment last week on the Church’s PR campaign and interviewed two of the twelve Mormon apostles, Russell Ballard and Quentin Cook: http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/FaithMatters/story?id=6614455&page=1

In this first of a kind interview, these two top Mormon leaders defended the Church’s role in Prop 8. Apostle Ballard even continued to gloat about their success by smugly saying “when something needs to get done, we know how to do it.” Does that mean that the Mormon Church is behind this frivolous law suit to try and redefine its image? Are they trying to hide behind others?

The Mormon Church has led anti gay marriage campaigns since Utah became the first state in the nation to ban same-sex marriage back in 1995. Next they funded campaigns in Hawaii and Alaska, but after taking too much heat over their direct involvement, the Church decided to have their members contribute the money directly to these costly initiatives. They also determined that others should “front” these campaigns. This recently came to light in a secret memo written by Mormon Church leaders on March 4, 1997. It specifically mentioned recruiting the Catholic Church to take more of a public role in future anti gay ballot measures. Here is the link to that memo as originally posted on Daily Kos – http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/3/15369/3779/711/651188

Last year over 59,000 Mormon families contributed to Yes on 8, and did so after a lot of strong arm twisting by Mormon leaders. These Mormon families gave til it hurt. Many even have gay family members, but were required to give to this anti gay ballot measure by their Church.

The Mormon Church ran every aspect of the Yes on 8 campaign. They raised nearly 75% of the money, ran the advertising, which had church members in all of the commercials and did nearly all of the grassroots work. Mormon President Monson wrote a letter that was read in late June in every Mormon Church building, calling on members to “give of their time and resources to pass Proposition 8.”

While the Mormon Church is not listed as a plaintiff in this law suit, which names all major California election officials including the Attorney General. Secretary of State and the Registrar of Voters of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento Counties, they are likely very much behind it.

The law suit also names as defendants, the Chairman and the four other Commissioners of the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC), which is in the middle of an active investigation of the Mormon Church for its alleged lack of reporting of what could amount to be hundreds of thousands of dollars in non-monetary contributions to Yes on 8
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/opinion/29sat2.html?_r=2&th&emc=th

This vindictive law suit even asks that the contributors to Yes on 8 from mid October through year end be kept secret as well. There are presumably thousands more donors of between $100 to $999 who have yet to be reported. What are they trying to hide? The public should know the names of all those who contributed to this and every other ballot initiative in California. It is the law.

We at Californians Against Hate www.CaliforniansAgainstHate.com deplore any threats, violence and hate directed at anyone. The gay community knows only too well how painful this can be. But this law suit is merely an effort to turn on the fog machine and try and redefine the image of its promoters.

Link to the Law Suit: http://www.telladf.org/UserDocs/ProtectMarriageComplaint.pdf

Link to Huffington Post Original: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fred-karger/the-mormon-pr-campaign-on_b_156974.html