Yes-on-H8 bigwig signatures on their letter extorting cash and support
from one of many No on Prop 8 donors who received the letter

Fred Karger of Californians Against Hate has a pretty good idea about just who might be behind that lawsuit to hide the Yes-on-H8 campaign donor names from the public.

From Californians Against Hate:

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.

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We at 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.

(emphasis: Californians Against Hate)

Remember back when, not all that long ago, the radical religious right backed opponents of marriage equality in California were railing against judicial activism and legislating from the bench? After the election they switched into shut up, you queers, the people have spoken mode. Now they’re gung ho to get themselves some of that ol’ time judicial activism, and they seem to be ignoring the fact that the people also spoke when the California Political Reform Act was passed by the voters in 1974.

Hypocrites.

Tags: California, Californians Against Hate, Focus on the Family, Fred Karger, James Dobson, Mormons, Prop 8, Queer Rights, TheoFascism

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