The continuing battle over Prop 8 is spilling over into an ugly guerrilla war on the Internet.
Getreligion reports that beyond public protests, activists are setting up web sites listing anyone who supported California's ban on same-sex marriage. Some sites, using public financial disclosures, single out individual Mormons who supported the measure. Is it free speech or harassment?
An example is an anti-Prop 8 group that is targeting the Ken Garff car dealerships. CEO Bob Garff's wife Katharine donated $100,000 in support of the ballot proposition. Fred Karger, leading a group with the somewhat ironic name Californians Against Hate, is using the Web to organize a boycott against the 40 Garff businesses in Utah, California, Texas and Iowa.
Garff and Karger have agreed to talks that could lift the boycott. On another front of the Prop 8 war, The Tribune's Rebecca Walsh explores the savvy politics behind the delayed release of information on the full extent of the LDS church's financial contributions — $200,000 at this point. Had the information been available before the election, it could have turned Californians against Prop 8, gay rights activists say.
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OK, let's keep it fair.
If the pro-Prop 8 donors, individually, should be "outed," then no one should object to individuals supporting the gay marriage side of the debate similarly being held up for harassment.
I never patronize Ken Garff anyway. His sales force is racist . . .
Silliness. The no-8 propaganda was full of the $20 million Mormon donation figure. They wouldn't have been able to spin 200K from LDS Corp. into any meaningful change in the argument.
I never shop Ken Garff....all his sales people are fags!
Are all mormons retarded, or just the ones who post here?
CA law requires all donors giving more than $100.00 identify themselves and have their donations made public as part of the state's laws around political transparency.
Try to organize a boycott of organizations that supported the no on 8 campaign. Start by not using blogger anymore. AFter all, Google gave more than $100K to the no on 8 campaigns.
Mormons are idiots. That you have cut your own throats with this prop 8 stuff is just icing on the cake. You people deserve what you'll get. Actually, you deserve far worse, but I doubt I'll live to see that happen.
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