Bruce Bastian
Posted on 07/28/2008 10:17:16 AM PDT by SmithL
When Bruce Bastian of Utah stood up Saturday night at a San Francisco dinner and wrote a $1 million check for the campaign against Proposition 8, he made it clearer than ever that November's ballot fight over a ban on same-sex marriage won't be a California-only affair.
Supporters of the effort to ban same-sex marriage already have taken in more than $1.2 million from out-of-state contributors for the fall campaign. And even before Bastian, a co-founder of the WordPerfect software company, opened his checkbook, gay and lesbian rights groups and their supporters from around the country had put more than $1.3 million into the fight against the ballot initiative.
"This is a campaign that's important to the entire country, not just California," said Brad Luna, a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, sponsor of the fundraising dinner that brought more than 750 people to the St. Francis Hotel on Saturday. "The result will have effects across the United States."
Those national concerns are echoed from the backers of the same-sex marriage ban.
When the state Supreme Court overturned Proposition 22's ban on same-sex unions, it opened the way for "nationwide legal chaos" and allowed gay rights groups "to force their radical redefinition of marriage upon the nation," according to a statement from the California Family Council, one of the supporters of Prop. 8.
The outside money is arriving in supersized chunks. Focus on the Family, a Colorado Springs group headed by James Dobson, has given more than $400,000 to the Prop. 8 campaign. The American Family Association, out of Tupelo, Miss., has contributed $500,000. The Knights of Columbus, a national Catholic men's organization headquartered in New Haven, Conn., has put $250,000 into the campaign.
The opponents also have cast a national net for donors. The Human Rights Campaign,...
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Bastian grew up in a conservative, Mormon family in Twin Falls, Idaho. He went on a mission for the church and received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Mormon-sponsored Brigham Young University. But he has been at odds with the church's view on homosexuality since coming out as a gay man.That explains the agenda.
This will be a expensive fight, because homosexuals, as a group, have loads more disposable income, than married couples with children, and they WILL fork over the dough for this. If they lose the vote in CA, it would be a major hit against the homosexual activists’ plan to promote their agenda throughout the rest of the nation.
Fasting and prayer!
Gosh, never would have guess from his photo in post 1 - he looks so mathculin.
guilty!
LOL!
Absolutely correct.
“But he has been at odds with the church’s view on homosexuality since coming out as a gay man.”
He didn’t bother to “come out” until after he had a wife and a very large family. I think 9 children. Then he blew all their lives apart to indulge his sexual predilections.
But isn’t it fun to share a forum with the raving SF lefties without the threat of getting kicked off as a “troll?”
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