Jeffrey R. Holland denies Church used money for Proposition 8.
"Jeffrey R. Holland Q&A at Harvard University," YouTube, March 20, 2012, accessed February 25, 2021
All we asked in Proposition 8 was the right to exercise our vote. We just asked for a religious privilege to cast a vote. We did not want to be disenfranchised. Institutionally, not a single dollar, not one red cent of money from The CN/Anhurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints went into Proposition 8 or any other comparable proposition that I know of. Now, a lot of Latter-day Saints got involved and a lot of Latter-day Saints, particularly in California, donated their own time and money to do it, so I'm not being coy, I'm not dodging the fact that there was a terrific involvement and a fairly heavy price to pay. People being fired from their jobs and people being blackballed in services that they had rendered and were no longer asked to render and so forth. But that's okay; that's the price you pay for lively democracy. So we choose very carefully what we see those moral issues to be and we saw that as a moral issue.
Transcription by BHR.