Comments | tongodeon: LDS Church guilty on 13 counts of untimely reporting

tongodeon

LDS Church guilty on 13 counts of untimely reporting

Jun 16, 2010 16:15

During the run-up to the vote on Prop 8, some people said that the California law was being passed with strong support from Mormons. The LDS church disputed this, pointing out that the Utah-based church's campaign report filings showed they'd spent just $2078 in support of the California law ( Read more... )

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erikred June 16 2010, 23:36:00 UTC

>.<

Srsly, it's not like the State couldn't use the freaking money.

tensegritydan June 17 2010, 00:37:09 UTC

They infringed upon my rights as a California voter, in an intentional and pre-meditated manner.

I'm down with a class-action civil lawsuit. Where do I sign up?

gaping_asshole June 18 2010, 01:08:03 UTC

Fuckers.

Frankly I think the best way to get revenge would be to get some fucking ridiculous anti-Mormon legislation pushed through in Utah. The gays would be on our side, and they do about as well as Mormons in terms of income and don't tend to have 19 child families sucking away all their money. Surely Californians could outspend the Mormons. In any case, there are lots of rather put upon non-Mormons in Utah who get pretty testy about the Mormons. With some cash it wouldn't be too hard to get them motivated to vote for something funny/damaging.

freeasinbeer June 18 2010, 04:57:00 UTC

As a current Utah resident, not in the LDS majority, good luck with that.

While you're at it, get the idiotic liquor laws changed.

freeasinbeer June 20 2010, 15:09:46 UTC

I got to thinking about your phrase "Surely Californians could outspend the Mormons."

The Latter Day Saints power is awe-inspiring. For the most part, as far as I can tell, they actually do what they say they believe and what their church says they should.

Approximately 68 percent of the Utah population is LDS. They give 10 percent of their income to the church. The Utah state income tax is a flat 5 percent. It is reasonable to guess that the church gets more cash flow than the state gets in personal income tax. That's without invoking a special sense of urgency that an outside attack would bring.

tongodeon June 21 2010, 16:29:06 UTC

The American population is about 1.38% Mormon. That's 4,248,918 Mormons today. There are 36,961,664 Californians, so yeah, Californians could outspend Mormons as long as each Californian was willing to spend 11% of what each Mormon was willing to spend.

But that's a pretty big 'if'. Mormons are some of the most cohesive, best organized people on earth and Californians are some of the least cohesive, worst organized people on earth, and many Californians are more inclined to donate to the other side. This isn't "Mormons vs. California", it's "Mormons vs. Same-sex Marriage Advocates", and that conflict is quite a bit less one sided.

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