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(KSL News) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints filed the final report of its contributions that helped support California's Proposition 8 campaign.
It says the church's in-kind donations totaled almost $190,000.
The report lists travel expenses for top church officials, including airfare, hotel bills and car rentals. It also listed just less than $100,000 worth of "compensated staff time" for Church employees.
The church issued a statement today that said: "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has filed the final report of its contributions (all of which were non-monetary) to the ProtectMarriage coalition. The report, submitted in advance of the Jan. 31 deadline, details in-kind donations totaling $189,903.58.
"The value of the Church's in-kind 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 did not make any cash contribution."
Individual church members donated millions of dollars of their own money to the campaign.
Today the names of donors to the Prop. 8 campaign are expected to be released. The constitutional amendment outlaws same-sex marriage and was approved by California voters in November. A federal judge in California ruled last week that the public has a right to know who contributed.
