what a way to spend your money

despite opposition from those who oppose my right to marry, the california secretary of state finally released the full donor list for those who bankrolled proposition 8. the good thing is that i don't know a single person on the list -- truth be told, i was concerned that i would end up finding at least one name that i recognized. but the bad thing is that so many people contributed to a campaign to promote discrimination.

it's ironic that those who contributed in support of prop. 8 were concerned that, by releasing their names, they would become the victims of harassment and discrimination. yet, they had no problem sending money to support what many view as harassment and discrimination.

what follows is not harassment or discrimination, rather an accounting (with a little bit of snarky commentary thrown in) of some of those who contributed the the campaign -

contrary to most published reports, the single largest group of contributors were members of the caster family of southern california and not the church of jesus christ of latter day saints (although lds did misrepresent the total amount of lds related donations. i seem to recall something about not lying in that good book they supposedly follow. maybe that's a part that joseph smith thought wasn't all that important?). the caster family made their money in storage. one of the casters is now a man of god who counsels others on family values.

david silva did a great piece on the casters in the san diego city beat. in it he highlights some of the family values promoted by the casters -

In the workshop section titled “The Husband’s Companionship Needs,” Pastor Craig counsels the good wife to hold her husband’s needs “2nd only to God in your life, not because he deserves it, but God commands it.”

He later writes: “A contentious wife is unwilling to trust and obey the Lord by affirming her husband’s leadership role. Husbands need to be affirmed in their leadership role by their wife—ALWAYS!”

Common “disaffirming practices” of a husband’s dominance, Craig writes, includes “[c]orrecting him in front of the children and others,” being “unwilling to serve him in public” and being “unwilling to surrender to him physically."

okay casters - you don't have to worry about me co-opting your vision of marriage. i PROMISE!

(click here for a picture of one of the casters that donated over $10,000. case of self-loathing maybe?)

another contributor owns an interior design business. anti-gay marriage or just sour grapes because she's losing business to the happy homos?

then there's the woman that seems to have donated a little bit each time she got paid. of course, there's a guy who's last name is gay (that one's way too easy). or how about the donation from the our lady of the rosary social fund? i don't know about bessie and thelma, but i would have rather gone bowling!

you have your retired military members and, just like the guy named gay, i'll refrain from taking the easy shot. however, one of the more interesting former military donors is a guy named lee m. holmes who lives on guam. a quick search revealed that mr. holmes, the owner of a cable outfit, has a history of tax problems. seems to me that his money would have been better spent fulfilling legal obligations.

but here are the ones that disturbed me the most - the teachers and the hospice doctor. those are people that are responsible for educating kids and providing solace to the dying!

shame, shame, shame