Terry Caster, owner of A-1 Self-Storage, which operates out of San Diego, has donated $300,000 to support proposition 8 in California. Californians Against Hate has started a campaign to call Terry and ask him why he donated that money. I think this is along the lines of what he's thinking:

Caster, who heads Caster Cos., which owns A-1 Self-Storage and other commercial properties, said he believes that marriage between a man and a woman is fundamental to society.

"Without solid marriage, you are going to have a sick society," he said.

The creator of WordPerfect, Bruce Bastian, has donated a million dollars to the campaign against the proposition. Pacific Gas & Electric gave $250,000 against it as well.

The SF Chronicle has an interesting article about outside funding for or against Proposition 8:

The outside money is arriving in supersized chunks. Focus on the Family, a Colorado Springs group headed by James Dobson, has given more than $400,000 to the Prop. 8 campaign. The American Family Association, out of Tupelo, Miss., has contributed $500,000. The Knights of Columbus, a national Catholic men's organization headquartered in New Haven, Conn., has put $250,000 into the campaign.

The opponents also have cast a national net for donors. The Human Rights Campaign, which works for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights out of its Washington headquarters, has raised more than $570,000 for the fight against Prop. 8. Another Washington group, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, has given $200,000. David Maltz, a Cleveland businessman, has donated $500,000 to the anti-Prop. 8 effort.

That's a whole lot of money on this ballot initiative. The LA Times predicted that about $15 million could be raised by November, but we're already at $9 million several months out from the election.

While there are ballot initiatives happening in both Florida in Arizona to write a ban against same-sex marriage into the Constitution, our community's national attention is on California right now.