Some might say Protectmarriage.com's Mormon grassroot efforts leader (or whatever he is) Glen Greener isn't being honest.

It wouldn't be the first time.

Some background. A few weeks ago, Mr. Greener wrote an article published by Meridan Magazine that detailed a lot of things that will happen if proposition 8 in California (that gay marriage amendment) fails to pass. The article gave birth to a shorter version of itself, usually called something like "Six Consequences if Proposition 8 Fails."

Those "six consequences" found their way into a host of Mormon blogs, vote-canvasser talking points and even a Family Research Council fundraising letter. But as many were quick to point out, a lot of Mr. Greener's consequences aren't what we in the journalism business call, well, firmly rooted in fact. Just ask Catholic Charities of Boston. Oh wait, they shut down because gay marriage was legalized in that state. Oh wait, no they didn't.

Go here, here or here for more details on the "Six Consequences" chicanery.

Now jump back with me to 1979, when a younger Glen Greener is a commissioner of Salt Lake City and head of the public safety department. According to recently surfaced articles in the Salt Lake Tribune, scandal erupts. According to the paper, Mr. Greener worked (conspired?) with Salt Lake's chief of police and another commissioner to secretly install the chief as the head of the city's "powerful" personnel deparment.

They issued a secret order that I guess they thought would stay secret. It didn't.

An investigative panel was convened (a former judge among them) and they found, according to the Tribune, that Mr. Greener and his cohorts offered less than truthful reasons for the attempted takeover.

"These motives (offered by Mr. Greener and the others) 'have no reasonable relationship to the means sought to accomplish them (namely, installing the police chief as head of civilian city department),'" the Salt Lake Tribune said, quoting the investigative panel's report.

Another article in the Tribune said that "Once (it) became public, the chief, (the other commissioner) and Mr. Greener all announced different motives for the takeover, at the same time denying that it was a takeover at all."

One reporter apparently even called it an attempt to establish a "police state" in Salt Lake.

Jump ahead 30 years. Mr. Greener's come a long way, and he's now some kind of representative for the Mormon church at Protectmarriage.com.

(I've found that details on who's doing what at Protecmarriage.com and any of its related entities, California Renewal, the California Family Council, etc., are very hard to come by).

And when he's not busy writing widely-criticized articles advocating prop. 8, he's a "private consultant specializing in municipal government affairs, grassroots politics and public opinion research," according to the Meridian Magazine article he wrote.

He did, according to the magazine bio, continue on to just one more term as a city commissioner in Salt Lake -- but not as head of the public safety deparment.

Special thanks to the Salt-Lake Tribune for help in digging up some pretty old articles and to Chino for tipping me off.