Mormon Church-owned businesses should be boycotted.

Businesses owned by Mormons, who tithe to the Church, should also be boycotted. Large amounts of Church income comes from tithings. Vote with your wallets! Every dollar less that you give to a tithed Mormon is a dollar less that can be tithed and spent on anti-gay activity.

Some businesses are more easily boycotted than others:

retail

discretionary travel

businesses with competitors

I recommend we boycott Marriott Hotels, owned by the Mormon Marriott family, and so devout that every Marriott hotel has a Book of Mormon in the drawer, along with a bible. In today's depressed travel market, there are plenty of competitors to Marriott and plenty of people can avoid it if they want.

Also boycott Doug Manchester's hotels. http://www.boycottmanchesterhotels.com/

Who else? Start a list here! Wiki power.

Boycott list:

All Marriotts

Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, CA http://www.boycottmanchesterhotels.com/

Grand del Mar Resort, San Diego, CA

Whitetail Club and Resort, McCall, Idaho

Franklin Templeton Investments

Prince Group [what product do these people produce?]

Blackwater (military subcontractors - OK I know it's hard for an average consumer to boycott this one!)

The Polynesian Cultural Center, Honolulu, Hawaii

Hoehn Motors, Carlsbad, California

A-1 Self Storage Company, San Diego, CA

Update 1: Please rec this up so it becomes a more productive place for Kossacks to deploy their energies, instead of the black v. gay arguments.

Update 2: Many Marriott branded hotels are owned by non-Mormons and split their revenues with Marriott Inc. These should also be boycotted. Their owners would then be encouraged to leave Marriott and affiliate with another chain instead.

Update 3: Added Franklin Templeton, Blackwater and Prince Group based on http://news.muckety.com/...

Update 4: See http://www.sfgate.com/... for donors to Prop 8. There are three Marriotts who donated to Prop 8: Elizabeth D. Marriott ($1000), Woodrow Marriott MD ($200), and Christina Marriott ($100). Anyone know if these are members of the same family that owns Marriott Inc.?

Update 5: At the request of commenters, I have refined the title of this diary. We all know that the Mormon Church was a prime mover behind Prop 8. We should do what we can to vote with our wallets to make sure we don't directly or indirectly contribute to the Mormon Church.

Update 6: Utah. Hard call for me. Ski businesses - who owns them? Someone please help find out. I am not calling for a boycott of all of Utah at this time. But definitely boycott the Marriotts there.

Update 7: If a Mormon pays tithings to his or her church, should we still boycott his or her business? Probably yes, unless he or she also makes a reasonable countervailing donation to LGBT causes.

Update 8: The corollary is this - "let the mormon business step forward and say "don't boycott me. I don't support the church's stance. I support equality". Bingo, you got my business back." [Credit: lighttheway] I want a definitive statement that Marriott Inc. supports gay rights and opposes the Mormon Church's stance on same-sex marriage.

Update 9: here is a list of Mormons for Prop 8: http://mormonsfor8.com/

Update 10: List of additional Mormon-owned businesses. Peruse at your leisure. http://www.exmormon.org/... Of note: Polynesian Cultural Center in Honolulu is owned by the Mormon Church directly. Added to list.

Update 11: Added A-1 Self Storage and Hoehn Motors from http://www.dailykos.com/...