Additional information for 8: The Mormon Proposition, which has a domestic theatrical release set for June 18, 2010. The film is being distributed by Unknown and has not yet been rated. 8: The Mormon Proposition has a total running time of 80 minutes.
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USA
80min
January 24, 2010
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June 07, 2010
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June 12, 2010
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June 17, 2010
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June 18, 2010
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Equality for some
As California's anti-gay marriage proposition 8 languished in the polls, Mormon Prophet Thomas S. Monson issued a call from Salt Lake City to millions of Mormons all over the world. His was an order to action containing the secret code language of the highly secret Mormon temple ceremony. The action alert commanded Mormons in and out of California to do all things necessary to insure the passage of California's Proposition 8. Within days, hundreds of thousands of Mormons all over the United States funneled thirty million Mormon dollars in to California coffers to purchase the passage of California's anti-gay marriage Proposition 8.Before the Mormons and their participation in the passage of Proposition 8, evangelicals were flopping in the fight. After Mormons got involved, the fight flourished.During the fight, the Mormon Church media-engine, including mega-million dollar public relations and political consulting firm support, barraged Californians with a suffocating number of misleading television and radio ads and door-to-door campaigns manned by the Mormon NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MARRIAGE.When Prop. 8 passed in California by a slim margin, Mormons were quick to take credit for the success. But when backlash from LGBT citizens targeted Mormon temples throughout the United States, the Mormon Church was the first to complain that they were the ones being persecuted.In the wake of it all, documentary producer Reed Cowan was collecting secret recordings, secret documents and never before seen footage exposing Mormon efforts to quash ANY rights for LGBT citizens anywhere in the world. 'As a former Mormon missionary, I am appalled in knowing that a church which itself worships the practice of alternative marriage (polygamy), would become so vehemently involved in the marriage debate,' says Director Reed Cowan.8: The Mormon Proposition follows the story of many LGBT citizens seeking marriage equality. One of the couples Cowan follows is Tyler Barrick and Spencer Jones. Barrick is the direct descendant of Mormon founder and Prophet, Joseph Smith's right hand man Fredrick G. Williams.The Barrick-Jones family history tells tales of Mormon ancestors chased from state to state because of their own practice of alternative marriage (polygamy). Now, decades later, the Barrick-Jones family is experiencing cultural and governmental discrimination of the same kind that haunted their ancestors. Only now, they're at war with their own religion of Mormonism and the people their religion seduced in to voting against their union.'When 8 passed, I called my mother crying--why did the Mormons do this to us? Why would our own people do this to us? They have turned their backs on us, ' says Barrick-Jones.8: The Mormon Proposition exposes decade's-long campaigns against LGBT rights, not only working behind the scenes to unseat political leaders who advocate for marriage equality, but also abuse against their own people through electric shock therapy and frontal lobotomies for BYU men arrested by Mormon security police. For the first time in history, the film goes on record about alleged prurient meetings between Mormon Prophet Spencer W. Kimball with a secret group of gay BYU students who called themselves 'Spencer's boys.' The film chronicles the hundreds of gay-Mormon suicides, including the story of Mormon Stuart Matis, who shot himself on the steps of a California Mormon Church during another of the church's work against marriage equality during the days of California's Knight Initiative.Long before its official completion, 8: The Mormon Proposition has already received considerable international press coverage. During the filming of 8, Reed Cowan interviewed Mormon Bishop and Senator D. Chris Buttars, who compared gay people to radical Muslims and said 'gays represent the greatest threat to America going down today.'Buttars characterization of gays engaged in so-called pig sex, brought on an HRC action alert, a scolding from GLAAD, and the eventual ouster of Utah Senator Buttars from his position as chair of Utah's Senate Judiciary Committee.In the days during the media backlash following Buttars interview with Cowan for 8, major media outlets and programs like FORBES, WASHINGTON POST and THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW picked up on the story with considerable coverage that resulted in thirty thousand e mails to the Utah Senate President and the crashing of the Utah Senate computer server for three days.8: The Mormon Proposition also reveals the truth about Utah's gay homeless youth and the fact that the lions-share of hundreds of homeless teens on the streets in Utah, are LGBT youth who have been kicked out after coming out to their families.Finally, in the telling of the Mormon Church's risk of losing their tax-free status, 8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION is a call to action not only to LGBT citizens, but all citizens everywhere to not only stand up for human rights, but also to pay attention to where the money and the information is coming from whenever a ballot measure picks up uncommon speed, money and heat.In the words of Reed Cowan, '8: The Mormon Proposition puts on record one of the greatest election shams in the history of the United States. If the Mormon church gets a pass on this one, we're in grave danger as a society of letting other groups purchase votes and we're putting power behind their so-called 'secret combinations' to do it again. This can never happen again. Never.'
Reed Cowan
Steven Greenstreet
Director(s)
Reed Cowan
Writer(s)
Mark Barr
associate producer
Bruce Bastian
executive producer
Reed Cowan
executive producer
Reed Cowan
producer
Steven Greenstreet
producer
Emily Pearson
producer
Christopher Reece-Volz
producer (as Chris Volz)
Derrick Shore
associate producer
Henry van Ameringen
associate producer
Producer(s)
Thomas Chase
Composer(s)
Himself
Spencer Jones
Himself
Tyler Barrick
Narrator
Dustin Lance Black
Herself (as Linda Stay)
Linda Williams Stay
Herself
Kate Kendell
Himself
David Melson
Himself
Dennis Herrera
Himself
Fred Karger
Herself
Carol Lynn Pearson
Herself
Emily Pearson
Himself
Gavin Newsom
Himself
Mike Nelson
Himself
Chip White
Himself
George Cole
Himself
Rocky Anderson
Herself
Kathryn White
Himself
Barry Lynn
Herself
Liz Towne
Herself
Deanna Worthington
Herself (as Julie Stoddard)
Julie Ann Stoddard
Himself
Darren Curtis
Himself (as David Baker)
David Berrett Baker
Herself
Millie Watts
Himself
Trevor Southey
Herself
Gayle Ruzicka
Himself
Bruce Barton
Herself
Melissa Bird
Herself
Bonnie Owens
Himself
Miyo
Himself
Paul Mero
Himself (archive footage) (as Chris Buttars)
D. Chris Buttars
Himself (archive footage)
Scott Jenkins
Himself
Michael Waddoups
Himself
Troy Williams
Himself (archive sound)
M. Russell Ballard
Himself (archive sound)
L. Whitney Clayton
Himself (archive footage) (archive sound)
Quentin L. Cook
Herself / Mormon Church Spokesperson (archive sound)
Kim Farah
Herself (archive footage)
Debi Hartmann
Himself (archive footage)
Gordon Hinckley
8: The Mormon Proposition
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.
Steven Greenstreet
Director(s)
Writer(s)
associate producer
Bruce Bastian
executive producer
Reed Cowan
executive producer
Reed Cowan
producer
Steven Greenstreet
producer
Emily Pearson
producer
Christopher Reece-Volz
producer (as Chris Volz)
Derrick Shore
associate producer
Henry van Ameringen
associate producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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