While much ado is being made about the overwhelming support of prop 8 by black voters in California, there is little ado being made about getting even with the Mormons (aka: that huge group of white people who donated $20 million to passing Prop 8 ) for seeing to it that gay Californians lost their right to marry.
These bigots should not be ignored and they shouldn’t get to avoid the consequences of their handiwork. We simply should not patronize businesses who turn around and use the money we give them to attack the rights and privileges of ourselves or others.
So, with that in mind, meet Brent Andrus of the Huntington Hotel Group who donated $20K in support of the proposition (via Stop All Monsters):
You know where that $20K came from. It came from everyone who’s ever stayed in the hotels owned by Andrus’s company. Californians Against Hate also have a list of people and organizations who funded Prop 8 and here’s another list I found on Snopes.
ETA: My reponse to claims that I’m “anti-Mormon” and that this post is an example of a hate crime against Mormons can be found here.
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I agree the boycott is very important. The organizers of 8 were asking their supporters to boycott the No contributers. They were posting and distributing e-mails with lists of contributers to boycott. Now it is time to do to them what they wanted done to us. I did not tip a Mormon waiter because 10% of the money would go to the church. I changed Pool service and other businesses I used already. Please this is only fair.
Agreed. Boycott is a nice first step. However, our forefathers hated their cult so bad they ran them out of New York, Ohio and Missouri before they landed in the desert where no one was. They festered there like an open wound until recently. Now, they’re baptizing dead Jews and stripping Americans of their Constitutional rights. They are a racist, homophobic cult and their doors should be shut forever.
Hey guys I’m not gay and I don’t live in California but don’t buy that the Mormons have a right to try to influence social policy in such an overt way. If someone was to compile a list of Mormon owned businesses nationwide I’d use it prevent them from getting any of my money.
I’m sure I’m not alone. It’s not just a gay issue.
I’d appreciate it if anyone knows what businesses are Mormon owned in San Francisco? I haven’t seen a list of those yet.
The post was written not long after the passage of Prop 8 and before the protests really began in earnest. I’m well aware that much ado has been made about the Mormon support of this bigoted law since I wrote the above.
You must be living in a cave if you think little ado has been made about Mormon participation on the Yes on 8 campaign.
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