Focus on the Family poured over $1m into Prop H8, then laid off 20% of its staff!

[KamaAina]

Next Dobson'll be flying to DeeCee in his private jet for a bailout...

http://coloradoindependent.com/21271/focus-on-the-family-vastly-outpaced-mormon-spending-on-proposition-8

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....

Focus on the Family donated more to the Proposition 8 campaign than has been reported, The Colorado Independent has found. A widely reported sum of "$657,000 in money and services" donated toward the ballot measure by Focus falls short of the total, failing to account for contributions made by the organization as long ago as November 2007 when Focus on the Family helped seed ProtectMarriage.com with a $50,000 cash contribution. The evangelical group spent another $35,650 in December 2007 supporting the anti-gay marriage group with Web ads, e-mail blasts, radio broadcasts, printing and postage, according to a disclosure form filed with the California secretary of state. Total 2008 contributions from Focus on the Family to the Proposition 8 campaign were $641,600, according to disclosure forms filed in January and made available to the public a week ago. A Focus on the Family spokesman didn’t return a call seeking comment.

I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked! :sarcasm:

Aside: ProtectMarriage.com's largest donor, the Knights of Columbus, the Connecticut-based political arm of the Catholic Church. While the battle over Prop H8 was raging, another attempt to block marriage equality was quietly defeated -- in Connecticut.

[tbyg52]

1. Shows you where their priorities are. nt

[Initech]

6. Heh, I was going to say the exact same thing.

And their priorities are really fucked up too!

[aquamarina]

2. What do they have to do before their tax exempt status can be revoked?

[KamaAina]

3. Re-register all their staff as Dems?

:shrug:

[Boomerang Diddle]

4. Karma! n/t

[chollybocker]

5. Money laundering is a special right for Christians.

[Initech]

7. Tax-free money laundering at that!

"Cant believe what a bunch of nerds we are - looking up money laundering in the dictionary!"

[KamaAina]

8. Note that Jesus only threw the money *changers* out of the temple

not the money launderers. :sarcasm: