Mormon Church admits spending more than 100 times the amount to pimp Prop 8 than it reported
by: Pam Spaulding
Mon Feb 02, 2009 at 14:00:00 PM EST
http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=5EB9153AE727DB3908CD884983441796?diaryId=9313Bearing false witness is no problem for these folks. That or they have a serious deficit in math sklls. (365gay):
Six weeks into an investigation by California's Fair Political Practices Commission, the Church of Latter-Day Saints has admitted that it spent nearly $188,000 more on the campaign to approve Proposition 8 that it had initially stated.
The Mormon Church previously insisted that it spent only $2,078 to support the ban on same-sex marriage, something LGBT leaders said was implausible in light of a number of visits to California by high ranking church officials, ads allegedly produced with church funds and the large number of church staffers working on the campaign.
In November, Californians Against Hate filed a complaint with the Fair Political Practices Commission accusing the church of failing to report the value of work it did to support Prop 8.
...In a new filing with the state, the church now admits that among other expenses were $96,849 for "compensated staff time" for church employees who worked on the campaign, $20,575 for the use of facilities and equipment at its Salt Lake City headquarters, $26,000 for audio-visual production and travel expenses for church leaders to go to California.
