8: The Mormon Proposition (2010)

A scorching indictment of the Mormon Church's historic involvement in the promotion & passage of California's Proposition 8 and the Mormon religion's secretive, decades-long campaign against LGBT human rights.

Directors:

Reed Cowan, Steven Greenstreet

Writer:

Reed Cowan

Stars:

Spencer Jones, Tyler Barrick, Dustin Lance Black

1 win.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Spencer Jones	...	Himself
Tyler Barrick	...	Himself
Dustin Lance Black	...	Narrator
Linda Williams Stay	...	Herself (as Linda Stay)
Kate Kendell	...	Herself
David Melson	...	Himself
Dennis Herrera	...	Himself
Fred Karger	...	Himself
Carol Lynn Pearson	...	Herself
Emily Pearson	...	Herself
Gavin Newsom	...	Himself
Mike Nelson	...	Himself
Chip White	...	Himself
George Cole	...	Himself
Rocky Anderson	...	Himself

Storyline

In 2009, thousands of LGBT citizens are denied almost 200 civil rights their straight, married counterparts enjoy through civil marriage. Some states have signaled progress. But amid the progress, The Mormon Church, with its front-group THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MARRIAGE, has been coordinating, financing and leading the effort to stop the advancement of marriage equality for more than three decades. As an organization worth hundreds of billions of dollars, the Mormon Church has been able to wage this war in secret. Not until the California Fair Political Practices Commission launched an investigation into the Mormon's involvement in Proposition 8, did the secrets of the Mormon effort become a matter of record. Through never-before seen documents, recordings & insider-interviews, 8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION, exposes the efforts of the Mormon Church and its members to halt nearly every piece of LGBT legislation on the desks of lawmakers from Hawaii to New York. 8: THE MORMON ...

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Plot Keywords:

mormon | mormon church | proposition | marriage | california | 

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Taglines:

Equality for some

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Genres:

Documentary

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for some language/sexual references

Details

Official Sites:

Facebook Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

24 January 2010 (USA)

Box Office

Budget:

$2,500,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$14,093 (USA) (25 June 2010)

Gross:

$99,851 (USA) (16 July 2010)

Company Credits

Production Co:

David v. Goliath Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

80 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

The narrator claims that Latter-day Saints believe God was once a human being and that after he died he "became a god where he began marrying spirit wives and having spirit offspring" and that "we, too, can become gods on our own planets, filled with our own spirit wives and children." In reality, they believe that marriage must be performed on Earth, not after death, and that women will be resurrected as well as men (hence no "spirit wives").

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Connections

Featured in The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Salt/Ramona and Beezus/Summer Doc Round-Up (2010)

User Reviews

When history is clear enough to see the damage we have done, we will weep.

The time for good men and women to stand up and be counted in the fight for humans rights has been heard over and over again throughout the world. The fight for Jews in Nazi Germany, for African Americans in the United States, and for women here and throughout the world goes on. The front lines of the battle now in this country is for full and complete rights for gays and lesbians.

The church, in all it's various names and forms, have been seen throughout history as one of the largest groups either ignoring those whose rights were being violated, or have been complicit in the violations. Here, in this film, we see the Mormon Church joining with the Catholic Church to raise millions to fight against human rights for gays and lesbians in California.

This spectacular documentary shows how these churches hid behind a shell group to fight Proposition 8.

The hate messages of the Mormon faithful was obvious. The church spread their lies, and the sheep just followed.

The worst abuses by the Mormon Church are too horrific to comment on. You have to see the film to understand the cruelty of this so-called religion. They are no different today as the Catholic Church was in the 16th Century.

The bottom line is that the Mormon Church will see that their $22 million spent to spread hate will be money wasted.