Prop. 8 Brings in Boatloads of Dough

While you snipe and back-bite at each other, the Homophobes of the LDS Church (the fourth largest denomination in America) in Salt Lake City are assembling an army of donors and precinct walkers in California. The goose-stepping has already started. There will be no squabbling or back-biting allowed. They move and act as one. There's a sunami on the horizon; you should be afraid - be very afraid. Or you should get your act together; Stop the sniveling, griping, second guessing, arm chair quarter-backing and hit the streets as one. The truth is on your side. Your biggest enemy is your divisiveness. That's were the Mormons and the far right will crush you if you let them.

Are our friends Madonna and Cher weighing in?

Did Barbara Streisand donate any money? I think her son is gay and is pro gay marriage.

Unfortunately it's just a money game, politics. Not really about the people directly involved and actually affected by the prop. The celebrities don't really care. Maybe they don't think their voices will make a difference. They are wrong. Years down the line people will remember and honor those who took a stand.

If the total rises to $30 million, how many womyns' shelters, children and senior daycare centers, health clinics, hospice beds, meals, etc. does that represent. Hating GLBT people has nothing to do with morality, and everything to do with power and money. The Konservative Kristianist Kultists' anti-gay noise-making is a growth industry. At the same time, they don't do ANYTHING *Jesus* commanded in the Gospels ... you know ... those *peripheral* things like feeding the hungry, nursing the sick, caring for widows and orphans, visiting prisoners, burying the dead; they don't operate parish churches, celebrate the Sacraments, or anything ELSE, except spew hate and rake in the bucks. Seems to me Jesus had something to say about that: "My House shall be called a House of Prayer, but you have made it a DEN OF VIPERS!" Father Raymond Clark Superior (retired) Community of the Resurrection San Diego CA USA 92104

Mary Cheney...keep your $3,000 and do something even more meaningful...get your parents to openly oppose this amendment. That would be worth far more than the $3,000 contribution. Also, where are KD, Melissa, Ellen, Rosie, Jeff Louganis, Nathan Lane, Tony Kushner, and all the other 'out' celebrities in all of this? Where are the so-called progressive straight celebrities who have made hefty gifts to Hillary and Barak? It's regretable that this even has to be voted on, but unfortunately because it does, there should be more of an outpouring of gay and gay-friendly celebrity support against this hateful amendment effort than there appears to be.

I note, Mr. Streeto, that you did not rise to the challenge of throwing out a dollar amount for Mr. Geffen to match. How thoughtful of you to want to allow others to do the work for you so that later you can stand and say "WE did it!!" The HRC gets my money on a regular basis and I show up and am counted. You'd rather hide behind an excuse of "the people WITH the cash didn't cough it up when it counted so WE are still discriminated against!" Please, put your money, or at least your volunteer effort where you mouth is.

I find it strange in what my Massachusetts born father used to call "the land of fruits and nuts" that this didn't stop with the courts like it did here in Massachusetts. Attempted referenda never got to ballot. One line of thought that should be stressed by those campaigning is that marriage has a LEGAL definition, and not just on the state level, but the federal as well. As such, in the interest of civil rights, all non-biologically related adult couples, regardless of gender, should have access to this legally binding contract. All religious arguments against same-sex marriage need to be made moot by the fact that currently they are able to refuse to marry anyone if they don't deem the marriage will be a good one. The law is not able to tell ANY church it must marry any couple. As for the term "marriage" all I have to say is a rose by any other name, still smells like a rose.

This whole referendum is a disgrace to America, and a perfect example of a true abomination before God. Something about liberty and justice for all. And something about separation of church and state, lest we become just like the religio-state that gave us 9/11, Saudi Arabia. And these people call themselves Christians? Do they know that Jesus never said anything against gays. He spent His Life on Earth minstering to the poor, the sick, and the disenfranchised of his times. Someone asked who is the real encourager of this hatred, or if Hitler had been re-incarnated in America. Yes, he has. He has been born again, except with a new name. His initials are GWB. And he will do anything, along with the leaders of his party's right wing, to gain absolute power, even if it destroys the very fabric of this nation.

More important than money is time. Use your time talking to your straight friend and urging them to support us in the fight to defeat this. As a small minority we really cant do this without them. Get all your less politically involved gay and lesbian friends fired up and drive them to the polls in November to kill this thing.