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The names of hundreds of people who contributed as little as $100 to support California's Proposition 8 will be released Monday. That has some worried about reprisals.
California law requires disclosure of names of donors of more than $100. Today, more than 1,600 names of people who donated between $100 and $999 is set to be released. A legal challenge to the release of names was rejected last week.
Supporters of the Proposition say they fear those individuals might face reprisals. By some estimates, individual members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints donated up to $20 million in support of the proposition, which defined marriage in California as only between a man and a woman.
Jeff Reynolds of the Utah's Conservative Sutherland Institute says some Web sites that have listed previous donors go beyond names.
"They're actually posting physical addresses and locations on maps where people who contributed to Prop 8 live," he said.
The Sutherland Institute is not listed as a donor to the pro Prop. 8 campaign, but it is heavily involved in the Utah dialogue over the so-called Common Ground Initiative, a package of proposed bills before Utah legislators dealing with rights of same-sex couples.
Later this week, the in-state will hold an event Reynolds is calling an informational event to highlight its opposition to that initiative.
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