WordPerfect Founder Donates $1M to Fight California Marriage Amendment

During a dinner at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco on Saturday, WordPerfect co-founder Bruce Bastian wrote a check for $1 million to help fight California's Proposition 8, the proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban marriage between gay and lesbian couples.

Bastian:

One thing I learned as a Mormon was that preaching costs money. The Mormons will raise a lot of money to support Proposition 8 in November. You can't change people's minds. They have to change them for themselves. If people are shown the truth and have fear taken out of the equation, I believe they will stand up for what's good and fair.