The Man Behind Proposition 8

[katty]

more: http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/106102/the_man_behind_proposition_8/

The Man Behind Proposition 8

Posted by Max Blumenthal, The Daily Beast at 2:56 PM on November 4, 2008.

The reclusive billionaire, the mother of Blackwater's Erik Prince, and the drive to fund this year's most controversial referendum.

Among the local ballot measures to be decided on Election Day, California’s Proposition 8 is perhaps the most fiercely contested. Backers of the proposition to ban same-sex marriage in the state cast their campaign in apocalyptic terms. “This vote on whether we stop the gay-marriage juggernaut in California is Armageddon,” born-again Watergate felon and Prison Fellowship Ministries founder Chuck Colson told the New York Times. Tony Perkins, the president of the Christian right’s most powerful Beltway lobbying outfit, Family Research Council, echoed Colson’s language. “It’s more important than the presidential election,” Perkins said of Prop 8. “We will not survive if we lose the institution of marriage.”

The campaign for Prop 8 has reaped massive funding from conservative backers across the country. Much of it comes from prominent donors like the Utah-based Church of Latter Day Saints and the Catholic conservative group, Knights of Columbus. Prop 8 has also received a boost from Elsa Broekhuizen, the widow of Michigan-based Christian backer Edgard Prince and the mother of Erik Prince, founder of the controversial mercenary firm, Blackwater.

[LisaM]

1. Gawd, aren't they connected to Amway, too?

It sounds like a Thomas Pynchon novel.

[katty]

2. i don't know....it's a snake pit

[Blue_Tires]

9. it isn't even funny anymore how often some of the same names keep popping up

the nastier the shit is, the more likely you are to see Prince involved someway

[katty]

3. the protest is still going strong here in LA (Westwood area)

[arcadian]

4. Family Research Council is the group behind the National Prayer Breakfast, correct?

n/t

[katty]

5. not sure-need to research that one

[arcadian]

6. No, I was wrong, it's the Fellowship Foundation that does the NPB

Equally as dastardly.

[ColbertWatcher]

8. WTF is it with the American Taliban? n/t

[CatholicEdHead]

7. They will survive if different gender preference people than them vote

Otherwise they are really, really, really insecure in their own marriages.