Tom Hanks apologises to the Mormon community

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"The truth is that a lot of Mormons gave a lot of money to the church to make Prop-8 happen. There are a lot of people who feel that is un-American and I am one of them," he had said last week during the premiere the new HBO series 'Big Love' in Los Angeles.

Members of the 'Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' have hit back at the star. The outcry from Mormon groups has prompted Hanks to rethink his comments.

"Last week, I labeled members of the Mormon church who supported California's Proposition 8 as 'un-American.' I believe Proposition 8 is counter to the promise of our Constitution; it is codified discrimination," the actor wrote in statement to 'People.Com'.

"But everyone has a right to vote their conscience - nothing could be more American. To say members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints who contributed to Proposition 8 are 'un-American' creates more division when the time calls for respectful disagreement. No one should use 'un-American' lightly or in haste. I did. I should not have," Hanks wrote.

Ironically, Hanks is an executive producer for 'Big Love' which is about a group of polygamist Mormons.

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