Prop. 8 aid puts Paramount board member on hold (Oakland, CA)

[Duncan Grant]

A $26,000 contribution to the initiative that banned same-sex marriage in California appears to have cost a 96-year-old former Mormon temple president his seat on the board that oversees Oakland's historic Paramount Theatre.

Amid rising criticism from the gay community, Mayor Ron Dellums said Tuesday that he was putting on hold the reappointment of Lorenzo Hoopes, most likely signaling an end to Hoopes' 30-plus years on the Paramount board.

"The community is asking us to reconsider, and that is what we are going to do," mayoral spokesman Paul Rose said.

Hoopes, a past president of the Mormon temple in Oakland as well as a former Safeway executive, has been on the Paramount board since before the downtown theater was restored in the early 1970s.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/20/BA151BKA16.DTL#ixzz0dBF6RVuV

Pity (tsk, tsk). :nopity:

[GodlessBiker]

1. Buh-bye, asshole.

[Starry Messenger]

2. Good.

$26,000 that could have been used for so much good in Oakland went to H8. Disgusting.

[frebrd]

3. Now, now - he was just being a good mormon!

:sarcasm: