Comments on: Perez Hilton Won’t Go to Sundance Because of Yes on 8 $$ http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2008/11/20/perez-hilton-wont-go-to-sundance-because-of-mormon-yes-on-8/ Politics for liberal newsgeeks Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:24:12 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: QuickSilver http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2008/11/20/perez-hilton-wont-go-to-sundance-because-of-mormon-yes-on-8/comment-page-1/#comment-20027 QuickSilver Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:06:02 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2008/11/20/perez-hilton-wont-go-to-sundance-because-of-mormon-yes-on-8/#comment-20027 <p>Alan Stock’s $9,999 donation is telling. He wrote it to be under some (fictional) $10,000 reporting threshold. He probably thought it would slip under public notice, that his name would be off of the $10,000 lists.</p> <p>Hey, why was Robert Redford not one of the handful of A-List celebrities who spoke out and donated against Prop 8? Was he afraid of alienating his sponsors? </p> <p>Think of all the other money Alan Stock has tithed over the years to the LDS Church, which has used its resources since 1997 to fight gay equality in dozens of states. The revelations about the Mormon-Catholic alliance are truly frightening. The implications for gay and lesbian victims of this crusade are sobering indeed.</p> <p>No one is saying it out loud, but how sad — and true — that our cause lacked broad Hollywood support. You can basically count on two hands the big stars who came out vocally or with donations. Pathetic… Maybe they were all afraid of putting their careers or reputations on the line or something like that.</p> Alan Stock’s $9,999 donation is telling. He wrote it to be under some (fictional) $10,000 reporting threshold. He probably thought it would slip under public notice, that his name would be off of the $10,000 lists.

Hey, why was Robert Redford not one of the handful of A-List celebrities who spoke out and donated against Prop 8? Was he afraid of alienating his sponsors?

Think of all the other money Alan Stock has tithed over the years to the LDS Church, which has used its resources since 1997 to fight gay equality in dozens of states. The revelations about the Mormon-Catholic alliance are truly frightening. The implications for gay and lesbian victims of this crusade are sobering indeed.

No one is saying it out loud, but how sad — and true — that our cause lacked broad Hollywood support. You can basically count on two hands the big stars who came out vocally or with donations. Pathetic… Maybe they were all afraid of putting their careers or reputations on the line or something like that.

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