Marjorie Christoffersen is stepping down as a manager at the Los Angeles restaurant El Coyote. Christoffersen created a firestorm of controversy for the 77-year-old L.A. institution after local blogs broke the news she had donated $100 to the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign at the behest of her Mormon faith.

 Bill Schoeppner, a fellow manager at El Coyote who has been with the restaurant for 26 years, told Frontiers Christoffersen also resigned as a member of El Coyote’s board of directors:

She no longer works here. She just told me tonight…Everybody is kind of used to her walking around the restaurant with a water pitcher going from table to table to table. I guess that part is no longer going to exist.

Schoeppner said Christoffersen tended her resignation to her mother, Grace Salisbury, described on the El Coyote Web site as the "matriarch" of the restaurant. Salisbury’s sister-in-law founded El Coyote in 1931.

Known for its cheap Mexican food and generous margaritas, El Coyote found itself the target of boycotts and demonstrations after Christoffersen’s donation became public. In a press conference hosted by the restaurant days after the news of the donation broke, Christoffersen tried to explain her donation did not have to do with any distaste for LGBT community, but was instead tied to her Mormon faith.

At the community  meeting Christoffersen did not apologize for the donation and did not indicate she would support any No on 8 organization, so a series of demonstrations and a month long boycott began.  The community itself felt hurt and betrayed by Christoffersen, who had always been  kind to them.

When one of the guys died from AIDS, Marjorie paid for his mother to fly out for his funeral. She is not a bad woman, she just listened to her church and couldn’t see, didn’t understand. There’s a disconnect. But  our money went towards taking away our rights.

It is sad Christoffersen’s faith stepped into her relationship with people she had known for decades and cared about and made her see them as "less than" and undeserving of the same rights she and her family have.