In a recent campaign filing, the Morman Church has revelaed that they spent more than $190,000 to help pass Proposition 8.
The church has been, up until this time, hush hush on their involvement with the Proposition, many church members donated money to the Yes on Prop 8 campaign, but the church kept saying that they were not doing anything to encourage their congregation. Protests and boycotts have occurred across California at businesses that admitted to donating money to the 'Yes on 8' campaign. It has been estimated that members of the Morman Church donated upwards of $20MM.
But in the filing made Friday, the Mormon church reported thousands in travel expenses, such as airline tickets, hotel rooms and car rentals for the campaign. The church also reported $96,849.31 worth of "compensated staff time" – hours that church employees spent working to pass the same-sex marriage ban.
Now that the church has finally admitted to their involvement and financially backing the "Yes on 8" campaign, do you think that they should lose their Tax Free Status?
(via McClatchy)
Comments
They should definitely have their tax exempt status revoke from them and have it never be reinstated to them. They broke the law of the land and most importantly their own law.
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