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Other Misperceptions Cleared Up: Prop 8

California activists implicated the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by saying that they had not fully disclosed their efforts to support Prop 8. These allegations have been refuted and shown to be incorrect by the Church. Mormons supported the definition of marriage as the union of one man and woman, along with many other pro-family coalitions, and accounted for their involvement as required by Utah state laws.

* The Church filed seven contribution reports throughout the campaign. Earlier donations were filed for specific time periods prior to this last reporting period, as required by law.
* Reports were required to be filed in different ways: by mail, fax or electronically.
* All filings went to the California Secretary of State, the Department of Elections for the City and County of San Francisco, and the Registrar-Recorder for Los Angeles. The electronic filings were sent directly to the Secretary of State but copies were mailed to all three locations.
* The Church has no control over what filings are posted on the California Secretary of State’s Web site. Currently, not all the Church’s filings are posted.
* The Church’s donations were all in-kind and included travel expenses, compensated staff time and audiovisual production services.
* The value of the Church’s in-kind (nonmonetary) contribution is less than one half of one percent of the total funds (approximately $40 million) raised for the “Yes on 8” campaign.

The Church filed the following Proposition 8 nonmonetary contribution reports and amounts to the California Secretary of State’s office and other California officials in San Francisco and Los Angeles as required by California state law (LDS Newsroom)