Follow the money: The network behind anti-gay funding

[Shana A]

Follow the money: The network behind anti-gay funding
By Lisa Neff, columnist, 365gay.com
02.02.2009 1:22pm EST

http://www.365gay.com/living/follow-the-money-the-network-behind-anti-gay-funding/

Social networkers searching Facebook may not find "Elsa Prince Broekhuizen," but Prince Broekhuizen is part of an influential network, a friends-and-family association of wealthy, powerful people allied to push anti-gay initiatives in a number of states and at the national level.

Status updates for Prince Broekhuizen might read, "Invested in anti-gay initiatives, and won."

And her social network of friends and associates would include Howard Ahmanson Jr., John Templeton Jr., Maggie Gallagher, Richard DeVos, James and Shirley Dobson, Phyllis Schlafly, Donald Wildmon, Gary Bauer and Tony Perkins.

Some in this network get headlines and column inches. Some advise presidents. Some run campaigns. And some, somewhat quietly, organize behind the scenes and write the checks that finance anti-gay ballot measures.

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And her social network of friends and associates would include Howard Ahmanson Jr., John Templeton Jr., Maggie Gallagher, Richard DeVos, James and Shirley Dobson, Phyllis Schlafly, Donald Wildmon, Gary Bauer and Tony Perkins.