Ex-Mormon donates $1 million to fight back against LDS Church on California gay marriage recall
”The LDS Church has no business [sticking] their big nose in something that’s a legal matter, not a religious matter. Constitutions are meant to protect minorities, not to take rights away from people.”
Bruce Bastian, an entrepreneur in Orem, UT who donated $1 million to battle Propositions 8, the ballot initiative designed to reinstate a ban on same-sex marriages in California this November. As an ex-Mormon, Bastian says he was offended by the Mormon Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS) which has been coordinating announcements in California church, canvasing neighborhoods with anti-gay marriage messages, and donating more than $1 million dollars itself. (Salt Lake Tribune)
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