A new report by the American News Project is likely to raise the heat on the Church of Latter Day Saints. The Church, whose members are commonly referred to as “Mormons”, is already under investigation by California election officials to find out if it violated California campaign finance law by failing to report expenses related to efforts to amend the state’s constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
 
ANP reports that it has uncovered transcripts of an hour-long satellite conference from church leaders in which political expenditures including internet campaigns, advertising and phone banks were promised.

The Mormon church has been the focus of protests since Proposition 8 passed 52 percent to 48 percent in Nov. The ballot initiative modified California’s state constitution to limit the definition of marriage to that between a man and a woman, while eliminating the right of same-sex couples to marry.