If you’re like me, you don’t want to support businesses that don’t support you.  I feel very strongly about that and if someone makes me aware of a company that is anti-gay then I will no longer support or do business with that company.

I bet a lot of you feel the same way so I figured I’d make the Californians Against Hate website available to you as it lists individuals and organizations that donated to the “Yes on Prop 8″ campaign.  There are even non-California donors on here…so even if you’re not from Cali you might want to check it out.

There is a 2 page list, but of the top 5 donors only 2 of them were from California. The 2 California donors in the top 5 were:

• Howard Ahmanson, Jr., Irvine, Ca.  Howard owns Fieldstone and Co. and he Donated $1,395,000.00
• Terry Caster and Family, San Diego, Ca.  They own A-1 Self Storage and they Donated $693.000.00

The out of staters were:

• Knights of Columbus, New Haven, Ct.  Donated $1,425,000.00  (Catholic Church)
• John and Josephine Templeton, Bryn Mawr, PA.  They own the John Templeton Foundation and they donated $1,100,000.00
• National Organization for Marriage, Princeton, NJ.  Donated $1,041,134.80

I urge you to go through the list and if you find businesses that don’t support you then I guess they don’t support you doing business with them either huh?  At least for me, I know they wouldn’t get my money anymore.  But please be certain that if you see a company name on here that it is either a) the company itself that made the donation or b) the CEO, President or Owner made the donation.   Because you are getting individual donations from folks that state where they work and this does not necessarily mean that the company they work for is against gay marriage, but just that individual person is.

Please be aware of this issue and do your due diligence prior to boycotting any businesses.  Again, here is the website to check out the donations to the “Yes on Prop 8″ campaign.

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