Mormon church spending on Prop 8
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Mormon Church admits spending more than 100 times the amount to pimp
Prop 8 than it reported
Six weeks into an investigation by California's Fair Political
Practices Commission, the Church of Latter-Day Saints has admitted
that it spent nearly $188,000 more on the campaign to approve
Proposition 8 that it had initially stated.
The Mormon Church previously insisted that it spent only $2,078 to
support the ban on same-sex marriage, something LGBT leaders said was
implausible in light of a number of visits to California by high
ranking church officials, ads allegedly produced with church funds and
the large number of church staffers working on the campaign.
In November, Californians Against Hate filed a complaint with the Fair
Political Practices Commission accusing the church of failing to
report the value of work it did to support Prop 8.
...In a new filing with the state, the church now admits that among
other expenses were $96,849 for "compensated staff time" for church
employees who worked on the campaign, $20,575 for the use of
facilities and equipment at its Salt Lake City headquarters, $26,000
for audio-visual production and travel expenses for church leaders to
go to California.
"This is exactly what we were talking about when we filed the suit,"
Fred Karger of Californians Against Hate told the San Francisco
Chronicle.