Reply #2: The LDS Church was the main player in this

[FreeState]

I understand the wrath which the GLBT community has at my church, so long as it does not turn violent, I see it as fully justified and understandable in the wake of Proposition 8. Indeed, any different results from the passing of this initiative would have been unthinkable.

Violence is never acceptable - from either side (and yes there has been violence from both sides, very few incidents of it fortunately).

That said, the fact that the Mormons have drawn considerable more ire than their major coalition partner, the Catholic Church, leaves one wondering if the ads and post-election venting aren't a little calculated. After all, a serious, scathing attack on the Catholics would likely alienate Latino voters, whose support at the ballot box will be necessary should an electoral effort need to be made to overturn Proposition 8. The Mormon vote, however, is numerically insignificant, and unlikely to be easily turned. Therefore Mormons become acceptable scapegoats for the Proposition 8 results.

The reason for this is explained in the article - Members of the LDS Church gave over 50% of the total money raised by the Yes campaign while only making up 3% of the states total population. Thats over 20 million dollars by the way. Of the 100,000 volunteers for the campaign take a guess how many were LDS members? I saw one estimate of over 90% (cant find a link for that now but if I come across it again Ill post it here.)

Now, I accept that the degree of anger directed toward the Mormons could be considered proportional to the ground-level support which members of the faith gave to the effort, but surely this was not solely the work of one faith?

There were three main faiths involved - the Catholic Church, the LDS Church and Evangelicals. As stated above the majority of the money and nearly all the volunteers came from the LDS Church. The TV ads were produced by the Church using LDS members.