Romney's Mormon Church fiercely attacked California's LGBT community with support of Prop 8.

[Mc Mike]

89. I'm glad this o.p. came up top again.

R. Maddow and Alternet covered Mormon billionaire and Romney backer VanderSloot. He spends a lot of money attacking LGBT rights, and simultaneously filing SLAPP suits against reporters, editors, and bloggers. One involved 'The Post Register' in Idaho Falls:

"...the story of a local [Idaho] pedophile in the local Boy Scouts troop who had molested dozens of children. The paper sued to obtain sealed court records from a civil suit in the case, and "then detailed how a Mormon bishop knew of his pedophile history yet still recommended him as a Scout master, how he was protected by several Boy Scout lawyers who were aware of more abuse but did not tell the boys’ parents, and how top-level local and national leaders of the Mormon Church had also received warnings." "

excerpt from http://www.alternet.org/story/154206/billionaire_bigot_bankrolling_mitt_romney?page=entire
Article comes from D.Kos's Joan McCarter, and recs G. Greenwald. Rachel's coverage is excellent, too.

VanderSloot also outed the reporter, whose "...editor, Dean Miller, explained: “Our reporter, Peter Zuckerman, was not ‘out’ to anyone but family, a few colleagues at the paper (including me), and his close friends”; but after VanderSloot outed him to his community in that ad, “strangers started ringing Peter’s doorbell at midnight. His partner of five years was fired from his job.” "

The repugs are trying to see how many ways they can be wrong on LGBT equality issues, covering all their bases. They try to conflate homosexuality with pedophiles and perversion, but don't mind one of their own being an actual gay pedophile, as long as he is a well-connected mormon repug. The same approach the GOP uses for special people like Senator Craig and Congressman Foley.

Repug mormon billionaires like Romney and VanderSloot are doing a lot of the heavy lifting in this particular repug quest to be wrong about everything, at the top of their lungs.