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HRC vs LDS On Prop 8

By The Daily Dish
Nov 18 2008, 9:32 AM ET

As of mid-September, this is what the Human Rights Campaign had donated of its own money to Prop 8:

Jeremy Pittman, the national deputy field director for the Human Rights Campaign, said his organization donated $237,409 in staff time, and collected more than $2 million dollars from donors, including the $1 million from Bastian.

Can you imagine how they calculated $237,409 in "staff time"? And notice how they take credit for "collecting" $1 million from a donor. By that time, the LDS church had donated a hefty proportion of the $16 million the Prop 8 campaign had raised - compared to the $10 million for No on 8 by then. So HRC was, once again, not exactly on the ball in the biggest civil rights struggle in the history of the gay movement. I know I'm a nutcase about them a lot of the time - but can you begin to see why?



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