Source: New York Times , Salt Lake Tribune CA Prop. 8 Despite consistent expressions of confidence from their spokespersons throughout the campaign, Protect Marriage, the main group that promoted Proposition 8 in California, was convinced that they were losing just weeks before the Nov. 4 vote, New York Times reports. "We're going to lose this campaign if we don’t get more money," the Times quotes Frank Schubert, chief strategist of the campaign as telling Prop. 8 supporters in late October. Times reporters Jesse McKinley and Kirk Johnson write that the appeal was phenomenally...(read more) ...

Months before the first ads would run on Proposition 8, San Francisco Catholic Archbishop George Niederauer reached out to a group he knew well, Mormons. Niederauer had made critical inroads into improving Catholic-Mormon relations while he was Bishop of Salt Lake City for 11 years. And now he asked them for help on Prop. 8, the ballot measure that sought to ban same-sex marriages in California. The June letter from Niederauer drew in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and proved to be a critical move in building a multi-religious coalition - the backbone of the fundraising, ...