Under the Kingdom of God, separation of church and state would be just so much crap, and anybody with any inside audience with God already knows that. Some people have been bothered that we apparently didn't know very many concretes about Matt Fong. We just didn't know. There didn't seem to be any platform or track record. It turns out, a person's identity means a lot to Matt.
Orientation is everything.
This was the biggest contribution Fong has ever made. The biggest surprise to many, though, would not be the amount of money involved, nor even the recipient. Modest donations to political entities with which one may not agree is a very traditional way of buying allegiance. Fong and Sheldon have been buddy-buddy for a long time. The Examiner article quotes Lou Sheldon writing in defense of Fong, who was criticized for having been endorsed by Log Cabin Republicans, a gay group which still believes in working within the party.