Millions Heaped Into Prop 8 Fight


California’s Proposition 8 face-off has been raking in tons of funds:

The sponsors of Proposition 8 announced Tuesday that they have received their largest campaign contribution to date: a $1 million donation from the Knights of Columbus

The money comes on top of $250,000 the New Haven, Conn.-based Catholic fraternal organization gave in January to help qualify the measure for the November election.

Last month, the founder of the WordPerfect software company, Bruce Bastian, pledged $1 million to help defeat the initiative, which would amend the state constitution to limit marriage to a man and a woman.

Bastian’s gift is the largest single contribution received so far by the amendment’s opponents.

This thing’s become quite the pissing contest, huh?

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