by Chris Bodenner
The wife of Doug Manchester, a hotelier who helped fund the campaign against marriage equality in California, files for divorce. Jim Burroway writes:
Manchester said he made his [$125,000] Prop 8 donation to “preserve marriage” because of “my Catholic faith and longtime affiliation with the Catholic Church” — the very same church that condemns divorce. His Catholic faith doesn’t restrain him from thumbing his nose at the Church in ending his own marriage, but it does serve as a convenient excuse for denying others the right to marry. There’s a word for that, isn’t there?
The Dish 