The op-ed piece titled "My marriage vows can't be voted down" (Monitor Forum, Nov. 12) is inaccurate as far as the Mormon (LDS) Church is concerned.

Since the passage of Proposition 8 in California, the Mormon Church has been the target of slanderous and bigoted publicity from many opposing Proposition 8. In addition, some of its sacred buildings of worship in California have been vandalized. I'm puzzled as to why the opposition's poor behavior hasn't been reported. Is this fair and accurate reporting?

The assertion that the Mormon Church funded the campaign is wrong. According to Richard Dalton, a computer-assisted reporting specialist for the Associated Press, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints donated $2,864.21. With more than $70 million spent on both sides of the gay marriage campaign, one can hardly say the Mormon Church funded the campaign. Church leaders did ask members to donate time and money to the cause, but those donations would have been made by the members themselves, not the church. Furthermore, the Mormon Church wasn't the only church or organization to make that request to their members.

Contrary to Jennifer Donnelly's remarks, the Mormon Church does donate a significant amount of money to humanitarian aid worldwide and to people of different religious persuasions and ethnic backgrounds. Since 1985, it has donated $750.9 million in humanitarian material assistance alone, not to mention the countless man-hours contributed to the poor, under-educated, and those affected by natural disasters.

I am not spokesperson for the Mormon Church; just concerned about fairness in the media.

SUSAN ANDERSON

Concord