The story as related in the
LA Times says it was a lawsuit over non-monetary valuation of the time of "church employees" supporting Prop 8. There are very few "church employees". We pay gardeners and janitors when we come up short of volunteers to do that work. People who work in the retail stores e.g. Deseret Industries and similar are employees. The gay activist must have had to look very hard to find $37,000 in non-monetary "labor" to squeeze that fine out of the gay favoring political practices commission.
I didn't see any evidence of similar prosecutions directed against the anti-prop 8 side of the equation. Surely there was substantial money spent there as well.
When the gay's start looking into the $40-$50 billion dollar commercial enterprise of LDS, Inc. Then you might have a problem....
$37k? Ha! Not even a tiny drip in the bucket.
The fine was for not disclosing these additional [donations]. The money the church donated was declared. The issue was employee time and supplies. This was not time or supplies that employees volunteered. I also worked and voted against Prop.8 so I have no problem with others doing so or your Churches support. But the facts are the Church was paying people to work on a political campaign.