That is, of course, a rhetorical question which, I’m sure, Will forever go unanswered. Initially it was, in their eyes,successful as a means towards eradicating gay marriage. The efforts towards raising these funds by actually going into Member’s homes and asking, and in some cases even shaming, people into donating money, were actually remarkably successful and proved to be a bit of a surprise to the opposition.
I can’t help but wonder what would have happened if that same effort had been successfully applied to a much worthier cause and the same amount donated to the World Health Organization Towards eradicating malaria which kills hundreds of thousands of children and expectant mothers yearly in Africa, Call me crazy, But if that had actually happened and not one mention of tithing was made by the church leaders, how many people would be standing In line waiting to be baptized
I remember when someone released a web tool to show who donated and how much. When I looked at my hometown in SoCal it looked like a ward directory on the google shame site. My old seminary teacher gave $13,000. My former bishop only gave $3,000. Old friends from my youth that have stayed there gave somewhere between $1K - $5k.
My old ward spent enough cash to buy someone a house. I wonder if they ever regretted being a part of that. Such a waste of money and they got the exact opposite outcome they hoped for.
I think you miss my point. I am comparing the effort put into raising funds for eradicating gay marriage and now the leadership Going into Africa presumably empty handed, asking people for money When these people live daily with a very high death rate of children, especially, from malaria but also unsafe water, dysentery, and the one disease that afflicts most of the people in Africa......poverty.