Howard Ahmanson is a fundamentalist Evangelical Christian philanthropist and the heir to the Home Savings and Loans banking fortune. He has donated millions of dollars to various religious causes and issues. Ahmanson was the third largest private donor — contributing around $900,000 — to the cause of California's Proposition 8, a controversial ballot initiative which banned gay marriage in the state in 2008.
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- "My goal is the total integration of biblical law into our lives."—Howard Ahmanson on his philanthropyThe Daily Beast: The Man Behind Proposition 8 (November 3, 2008)
