Rohrabacher: OC's senior, career politician

Dana Rohrabacher--Orange County's senior, career politician--is engaging in a Twitter dialogue about marriage equality with Brian O'Leary Bennett, a conservative Republican, public relations expert and gay activist who once served as chief of staff for Congressman Robert K. Dornan (R-Garden Grove).

Bennett launched the discussion by applauding Rohrabacher--whose stances often abruptly shift between Phyllis-Schlafly-cold-war-conservatism and bong-hit-libertarianism--for opposing federal government intervention into state and local stances on medical marijuana distribution.

The former Southern California Edison spokesman then asked the congressman to "B consistent" and "B fair" when it comes to supporting gay marriage.

But Rohrabacher, who has always been barely one bus stop ahead of his own scandalous past, declined to accept the comparison.

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See the update at the end of this post about an extensive interview Chris Kluwe gave a colleague at a Voice Media Group news site in which the punter cut by the Vikings says, "I wouldn't have changed anything."

ORIGINAL POST, MAY 6, 2:23 P.M.: Chris Kluwe, who these days may be better known as a straight advocate for gay rights than as an NFL punter, was cut this morning by the Minnesota Vikings.

"So long, Minnesota, and thanks for all the fish!" was the first of three rapid-fire tweets posted by the pride of Los Alamitos High School and Costa Mesa hobby shop owner.

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Tomorrow, the National Day of Prayer is scheduled to happen in Washington, D.C. featuring a who's who of homophobes, retrogrades, and flat-out liturgical losers. Yet the person who's gotten the attention of LGBT activists surprised that Christians don't like dem gays is Greg Laurie of Harvest Crusade.

Laurie is going to be more than just a holy roller: he's the honorary chairman of the Task Force and is scheduled to deliver a prayer at the Pentagon tomorrow morning

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Man, what a difference two years can make. In April 2011, Los Angeles Lakers superstar and Newport Coast resident Kobe Bryant made national headlines for calling an NBA referee a "fucking faggot," earning widespread condemnation and a half-hearted apology from the basketball player. But this morning, Bryant not only tweeted a message in support of NBA player Jason Collins (who just became the first athlete in the major professional sports leagues to come out while still active in an article for Sports Illustrated), but also urged his fans to do the same.

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A registered sex offender already on parole for making kiddie porn when he invited more underage boys to meet him and his camera in an abandoned Anaheim house was convicted and sentenced today to six years in state prison.

Chris Glen Phernambucq, 31, of Anaheim, pleaded guilty to a court offer after facing the possibility of nine years and four months behind bars. He still must register as a sex offender for life.

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After Zachary Joshua Reeder, a 30-year-old teacher at the all-boys Catholic Servite High School who'd also taught or coached baseball at Irvine's Beckman and Mission Viejo's Capistrano Valley high schools, was arrested in February for allegedly posing as a girl on Facebook to lure underage boys, we updated our original post to show how dozens of alleged victims came forward due to the publicity and the resulting number of felony counts ballooned to 140. As the Orange resident faces an arraignment hearing in Newport Beach Friday morning, the charges and potential penalty have been scaled back.

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A Cal State Long Beach Professor Emeritus is putting it all on the line in the hopes that he can prove once and for all that approximately 6,000 years ago humanity was zapped into existence by a grand magician in the sky.More »

Virginia's anti-sodomy law has been struck down, due in part to an assist from the dean of UC Irvine's School of Law, Erwin Chemerinsky.

The decision came in a case involving sex between an adult male and a 17-year-old girl, which the Richmond, Va.-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed should be prosecuted. But a divided three-judge panel ruled an unconstitutional law cannot be used to attain justice.

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Nguyen: Fighting the good fight

See the end of this post for an update...

ORIGINAL POST, FEB. 5, 3:32 P.M.: Tonight, the Garden Grove Unified School District board of trustees is scheduled to vote on whether they'll allow organizers of this weekend's Tet Parade to use a district bus and driver, a bus in which school trustees sit and wave to the masses. Usually, this is a gimme, given the Tet Parade is such an important part of Little Saigon cultural life, and Garden Grove's proximity to it. And it's such a formality that the motion to approve is part of the consent calendar.

However, board member Bao Nguyen will not only ask that the motion be pulled off the consent calendar to for discussion, and not only vote no, but will also urge his fellow trustees to vote no and to not participate unless some things change. See, the Tet Parade this year is causing national controversy this year because organizers don't want LGBT Vietnamese to march in the parade, and Nguyen--someone that the Weekly has known for over a decade, and by far the most ethical, humanistic politician Orange County has ever seen--will not stand for Know Nothings of any kind.

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Anaheim and Huntington Beach police officers raided an apartment near La Palma Avenue and Euclid Street last week and arrested the 40-year-old "madame" there on suspicion of being a pimp. The Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force warns brothels are turning up (and turning tricks) ever more frequently in residential neighborhoods. So we offer the following 10 signs you're living next to a house of ill repute.

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