Once in a while, you walk out of a movie theater knowing you’ll never be the same.

You’ve probably heard about the Mormon Church’s involvement in California’s 2008 marriage ban. But I think you’ll still be shocked watching the new documentary
8: The Mormon Proposition.

The film uses former church members and leaked documents to make a case for exactly how the Mormon Church evaded the law and orchestrated Prop. 8. It’s a movie you absolutely must see.

And this week ONLY – to bring more resources to the fight for equality – the film’s distributors are offering a DVD of the film as a thank-you gift for any donation to HRC of $75 or more.

No matter how much you give today, you’ll receive a membership to HRC, including one year of our magazine Equality, and 100 percent of your gift will go to supporting HRC’s work to promote equal rights across the country. Any amount will help, but I hope you don’t miss this chance to see the film.

The film notes that while just two percent of Californians are Mormon, 71 percent of the money behind Prop. 8 came from Mormons. What happened? This clip shows how church leaders told members how much to donate, based on their income records – and threatened them if they didn’t give:

In the film, secret documents from a Mormon whistleblower show how the Mormon Church helped create a front group before Prop. 8 (the National Organization for Marriage) and stayed out of the spotlight in California. They show how the Church concealed its involvement in Prop. 8 so egregiously that last month it was still drawing fines for campaign finance violations. Get your copy now »

Those documents also detail an anti-marriage campaign in Hawaii a decade earlier – a blueprint for Prop. 8. There, Church leaders funneled money to a coalition that masked their activities. They hid their faces, opened their wallets, and honed their strategy.

Every single day the Human Rights Campaign is out there with people like you, going up against NOM, the Mormon Church, and other groups with vast resources and hateful agendas. But we’re also building up – making millions of people’s lives better, from hospitals to workplaces, from schools to houses of worship. It’s what we do.

And it’s on behalf of those millions of people, and their simple desire to be treated equally, that we have a message for the Mormon Church: your lies, your half-truths and your bigotry will be exposed.

Help us drive that message home by making a donation for equality – and own a film you’ll never forget.

Thanks for supporting this fight.

Sincerely,

Joe Solmonese
President

P.S. Bruce Bastian, an HRC board member who was raised Mormon and helped work on this film, had this to say: “Although the Mormon Church may be small in numbers where you live, their influence is being felt in very big ways all over this country. I believe every LGBT American should see this film to better understand the war we are in and at least one of our main enemies.” Get your copy now »

This link is specific to you, so please make your own gift before you forward to your friends. Having trouble clicking on the links above? Simply copy and paste this URL into your browser’s address bar to reach the donation form:
https://secure3.convio.net/hrc/site/Donation2?df_id=5282&5282.donation=form1