Debating Prop. 8 - or not
A Utah businessman's plan to run a full-page ad Sunday in Salt Lake City's two major newspapers - The Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News - criticizing the LDS Church's stance on California's Prop. 8 was stopped when the papers pulled the ad, according to the blog Gay Rights Watch.
Bruce Palenske's full-page ad (which you can see here in a pdf file) criticized the LDS Church's role in funding the Prop. 8 campaign, and included a form for people wishing to complain to the IRS about the church violating its tax-exempt status.
"We have a signed contract, and the newspapers had already accepted payment for the ad when it was pulled literally 5 minutes before the production deadline," Palenske told Gay Rights Watch. "This is clearly political. ... I can’t help but think that the LDS came in and put the brakes on this."
Bruce Palenske's full-page ad (which you can see here in a pdf file) criticized the LDS Church's role in funding the Prop. 8 campaign, and included a form for people wishing to complain to the IRS about the church violating its tax-exempt status.
"We have a signed contract, and the newspapers had already accepted payment for the ad when it was pulled literally 5 minutes before the production deadline," Palenske told Gay Rights Watch. "This is clearly political. ... I can’t help but think that the LDS came in and put the brakes on this."
Labels: journalism, LDS, politics
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