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Mormons Tipped Scale in Ban on Gay Marriage

November 16th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
By JESSE McKINLEY and KIRK JOHNSON
Published: November 14, 2008

SACRAMENTO — Less than two weeks before Election Day, the chief strategist behind a ballot measure outlawing same-sex marriage in California called an emergency meeting here.

“We’re going to lose this campaign if we don’t get more money,” the strategist, Frank Schubert, recalled telling leaders of Protect Marriage, the main group behind the ban.

The campaign issued an urgent appeal, and in a matter of days, it raised more than $5 million, including a $1 million donation from Alan C. Ashton, the grandson of a former president of the Mormon Church. The money allowed the drive to intensify a sharp-elbowed advertising campaign, and support for the measure was catapulted ahead; it ultimately won with 52 percent of the vote.

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  1. Comment by William Schubert on 23 April 2009:

    God I hope this guy is not related to me. Most of the Schubert’s related to me have established a reputation for being open-minded, including the Republicans. If he is related to me, he is ruining the family name.