Los Angeles Film Festival Director Resigns Over Prop. 8

I find the most interesting part of his (Raddon's) statement "my contribution THROUGH my church". If the Church co-ordinated them in any way, the church should then be defined as a political organization and needs to be taxed as such. From his words, I believe that the contribution was just given to prove to his ward that he is a good mormon. If he refused the orders of his ward to contribute, his faith and perhaps even his sexuality would have been called into question. This is the nature of Mormonism. My husband is an ex-Mormon and he was pressured and ultimately coerced by the Church to marry a woman and have children or he would burn in hell forever. After several years of marriage, and 2 kids, he AND his wife decided that they had made a mistake and they parted. The church excommunicated my husband and he says it was the most liberating moment of his life.

Hans you claim to believe that you have the right to go after the individual, well then I am glad that i DON'T live anywhere near you geopolitically or otherwise. You are displaying the same hateful face that the Mormon church or Focus on the Family have displayed. Your attitude is not unlike a skinhead or the Third Reich, the individual has the right to their personal or moral belief, the Constitution guarantees the right to vote your conscience even if his conciens disagrees with your world view. Did you donate to the No side or is your political contribution flaying someone for exercising their constitutional rights. Not even every Gay agreed with the no side. Going after an organiztion is fair but targeting the individuaql is a bigotted act, and makes you no better than those that would deny us our rights.

The issue is eventhough he is a Morman WHY DID HE HAVE TO CONTRIBUTE???? He could have just declined to donating the money!!!

Good riddance ... an enemy of gay rights and human rights ... he has no business addressing the issue of independent films or any other endeavor that represents freedom of will and imagination ... people who preach tolerance and fund hate belong in the dust heap of history ... most certainly they do not belong in the company of humanity.

It's sad that there are people out there that are pleased that someone has lost their job. You can throw the term "bigot" around in as many posts as you wish but that doesn't change the fact that he was free to make his own decision based on what "he" felt was right. As for all the comments about Mormons and African-Americans...I'm African American...and you can say the same things about "bigotry" regarding Christianity and Catholicism. I think the preoccupation with gay marriage has blinded us in some ways. And honestly, I can care less if we ever get the right to marry. I'm still going to be me and I'm still going to be happy. Christian..."It’s one thing to go to church in private and do your weekly tiding; however, to actually go out of your way to write a check personally in addition- that is just plan mean spirited and mean." You've got to be kidding me - if that's not a hypocritical comment nothing is. Keep your religion at home, behind closed doors?

It’s one thing to go to church in private and do your weekly tiding; however, to actually go out of your way to write a check personally in addition- that is just plan mean spirited and mean. Let’s see what a great job he does now running the Mormon Film Festival.

It’s not that the minority group is not allowing him to have and act on his opinion; they are reacting to him doing just that. You are telling the GLBT community that they are to just take everything that happens to them. Well, that’s not how an injustice it brought to justice. The GLBT community has every right to come together and give their opinion on that same person and respond to that person. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. (Newtons Third Law) This is exactly the reason some of you are putting comments to this article, because you are reacting to the reaction of “people”. And those “people” are reacting to the action of an “individual” that have benefitted greatly by those “people.” By telling those “people” that they are not allowed to react, you are taking their freedom of speech and assembly away from them. I welcome your response; for I will react with a response of my own.

I am surprised that he loses his job because the LGBT community is upset because he only did what was constitutionaly his right to do. You may not like his decisions but they are his. Two weeks before Nov. 4th, I saw reports that the No side was going to lose because of Gay apathy. The main point being that Gay people and their supporters wouldn't be voting which proved to be true. So who is more to blame, the person who contributed to Yes side, or the Gay person and his associates who couldn't be bothered going to the polls to vote down PROP 8. I have no problems with boycotting a business that sided aqainst Gay people, but to take it down to the individual level makes you no better than the churches and groups that preach hate. I am really ashamed of my brothers and sisters in California, because you are demonstrating that which we condemn in others.

Al, The Mormon "religion" until VERY recently openly preached racist filth! The book of Mormon says that African Americans are Cursed and that God struck them BLACK to punish them for their sinful nature. And you want to talk about "tolerance". Mormon men (and their multitudes of obediant wives) don't know the meaning of the word. I mean these people actual practual rituals in which they try to convert the DEAD!! It's not a religion, it's a cult.

James in Tampa wrote: "...should we boycott should we not... should i go to that state on vacation or not... the answer is if you know the place supported 8 and you knowingly support them you get what you deserve" While this may resonate emotionally, let's think about what James and other pro-boycott folks are saying here. As James put it, "If a place supported 8, we should boycott that place." By that logic, if we should boycott Utah, we should also boycott California. California as a state "knowingly supported" proposition 8. So, hey, let's all boycott California!!!! Boycott the state, boycott all of the businesses there! Boycott all of the film festivals in California, and all films from Hollywood! (Sheesh!) Boycotts make sense if they're case specific, not silly emotional knee-jerk reactions.