Proposition 8 proponents' complaint that a California campaign-finance disclosure law has led to harassment of same-sex marriage opponents failed to sway a federal judge, who refused Thursday to throw out the law or shield donors' names.
"If there ever needs to be sunshine on a particular issue, it's a ballot measure," U.S. District Judge Morrison England said after a one-hour hearing in his Sacramento courtroom.
A lawyer for the "YES on Prop. 8 campaign" said it would ask an appeals court to modify or overturn the law, which requires disclosure of all contributors of $100 or more.
PLEASE GO TO eightmaps TO SEE GOOGLE'S PUSHPIN MASHUP OF NAMES AND LOCATIONS OF DONORS WHO PAID $ TO FUND PROPOSITION 8 TO DENY A HUMAN RIGHT TO GAY WOMEN AND MEN.
When they came for the gays, I did nothing. When they came for me....