Focus on the Family vastly outpaced Mormon spending on Proposition 8

[LynneSin]

For DUers who think that lil Super Bowl ad was no big deal - SHAME ON YOU SHAME SHAME SHAME!!!

You think that ad was about Tim Tebow & his Mom or even choice? That was a "Warm & Fuzzy" to try and gain more support - get people to visit their website and perhaps donate. I didn't even turn on the Super Bowl, I was so pissed they would allow this hate group to run an add.

http://coloradoindependent.com/21271/focus-on-the-family-vastly-outpaced-mormon-spending-on-proposition-8
Focus on the Family vastly outpaced Mormon spending on Proposition 8
Ministry, related donors spent $1.25 million on anti-gay marriage measure

Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family gave $727,250 in cash and services to the anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 campaign in California, according to records released by the California secretary of state, including a $100,000 check in late October, just days before the evangelical media empire announced it planned to lay off nearly 20 percent of its employees.


While there has been public scrutiny of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for its attempts to influence the campaign to reverse a California Supreme Court ruling allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry, Focus on the Family and related donors pumped more than six times as much as the Mormon church did into the ProtectMarriage.com campaign, records show.

Altogether, donations supporting Proposition 8 from Focus on the Family, one of its major benefactors and an offshoot lobbying organization totaled more than $1.251 million — just shy of the $1.275 million contributed by ProtectMarriage.com’s largest donor, the Knights of Columbus, the Connecticut-based political arm of the Catholic Church. In addition to $727,250 reported by Focus on the Family, major backer and board member Elsa Prince, the billionaire heiress of Holland, Mich., donated $450,000 to ProtectMarriage.com in two cash chunks and the Washington, D.C.-based Family Research Council, a Christian-right lobbying organization spun off from Focus on the Family and founded in part by Prince’s foundation, chipped in $74,400.

[RKP5637]

1. Neither did I. This ad plus all of the commercials and extreme corporatization makes it of

little interest to me. Watching it makes you just another little gear in the corporate profit machine and propaganda.

[theHandpuppet]

2. +1000

And SHAME on those here on DU who belittle anyone's criticism of Focus on the Family and their hatemongers.

[progressoid]

3. Jeez, which group do I despise more.

[Divine Discontent]

4. God bless us from this sick and demented group. They are simply 'religious' and all about power & $

What a pathetic waste of 3 million dollars by the way.....

[LynneSin]

9. Problem with that ad - you and I know better, but average Joe Football Fan...

they don't have a fricking clue.

They just see the "Warm & Fuzzy" of a college football star who has won the Heisman Trophy. What could be wrong with that? :grr:

[KamaAina]

5. "major backer and board member Elsa Prince, the billionaire heiress of Holland, Mich.,"

How about that? Her darling little boy Erik is the guy behind Blackwater Xe! Small world, ain't it? :eyes:

[Initech]

6. We really need to have an amendment that prohibits out of state money from influencing our election.

That's the only way to stop shit like Prop h(8) from happening.

[Dappleganger]

7. This!

But that would be denying corporations their constitutional 'rights.'

[Mari333]

8. luckily I detest corporate sports

knr

[EFerrari]

10. Great catch. K&R