Subject: Chuck Smith

• An Open Letter

  November 11, 1999

• Are Mexicans Leaving Orange County?

  Slate blogger Mickey Kaus (he of the boldface) has an interesting post about disappearing Mexicans where he virtually proclaims anecdotal evidence superior to academic studies. As proof of Mexicans disappearing, he cites the comments of an Anaheim Union High School District English teacher on another blog who says her classes are smaller than ever and devoid of immigrant students. For some reason, Kaus bolds the below passage: "ALL my students, for the first time in my career, have insisted tha

  September 12, 2007

• Chuck Smith Heralded as Jesus in Backwards California County

  Tehama County, California, is one of the Golden State's more-backward counties, with a population of about 60,000 and a local economy predicated on tourism and...uh, not much else. The main newspaper in town, the Red Bluff Daily News, is a Dean Singleton-owned rag, and thus we can't expect much of it. But the Daily News' advance story last week to publicize an appearance by homo-hating Chuck Smith (founder of Santa Ana's Calvary Chapel) goes even below the depths of mainstream journalism. "He h

  November 16, 2007

• Rosie's Riveting Fabulists

  It's always entertaining to see which sacrificial lamb the Orange County Republican Party offers to Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez every two years, but the 2008 election is already proving to be particularly fun. Running unopposed as the Republican nominee for the 47th Congressional District is Santa Ana Unified School District Trustee Rosemarie Avila, whom we'll always remember for telling her pastor, Calvary Chapel's Chuck Smith, that her school district was planning to become the first in Oran

  May 13, 2008

• The Fabulously Fruity Chuck Smith

  So a bunch of gays got married today, and the Christian Right is livid (but where was Fred Phelps when you needed him?). Providing a much-needed coda for today was none other than the legendary Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel movement (shown here in another fabulous shirt). He was just on KCAL-TV Channel 9 saying it's wrong for gays to marry (although he wasn't opposed to unions--maybe now he's for domestic partnerships?). The funniest part about his homophobic rant? Smith was spoutin

  June 17, 2008

• Calvary Chapel's Pendejo Pastor

  *Note: This was once a much-longer post but was lost because my PC is goofy...here's what I remember: My prediction: few groups will unleash the anti-gay hounds more viciously in the battle over same-sex marriage in California than the Calvary Chapel fellowship. Founder Chuck Smith is already out there in his loud Hawaiian shirts; now, it's David Rosales' turn. Rosales (pictured) is the head pastor of Calvary Chapel Chino Valley, a congregation in Hell with more than 8,000 members. Yesterday,

  June 23, 2008

• What’s the Best Orange County History Book?

  October 8, 2008

• Letters

  June 17, 1999

• Time to Chuck Smith

  March 9, 2000

• Oddit

  May 18, 2000

• The Year in Killing El Toro

  January 2, 2003

• Has Orange County Christianity Jumped the Shark?

  The country is abuzz with President-elect Barack Obama's choice of Saddleback Church's Rick "Purpose-Driven Life" Warren to offer the invocation at next month's presidential inauguration. Let others debate the merits of the choice--I personally think Warren's beginning to wade into the political waters he long swore to forsake--but what interests me is that Warren is assuming this spotlight treatment at a time when his home base is increasingly losing its influence over American Christianity.I d

  December 18, 2008

• Chuck Smith Says Economic Crisis Means Jesus Coming Soon!

  In our recent obsession over Purpose-Driven Rick and Mariners Church's gay-employee-firing controversy, we at the Weekly have been derelict in reporting on the other people that make Orange County Christianity so damn fascinating--and, by other people, I mean Calvary Chapel founder and pastor Chuck Smith. So we apologize for not bringing to your attention this article from earlier this month in which the homo-hating teddy bear of a man argues all signs portend to his Savior returning."I believe

  December 29, 2008

• When Mariners Church Fired Choir Director Bob Gunn for Being Gay, It Sparked a Six-Year Legal Battle

  December 18, 2008

• David Di Sabatino Is Drawn to Charismatic Christians. But Nothing Prepared Him for Larry Norman

  October 16, 2008

• This Is Your Life: A Companion Guide/Shameless Propaganda for 'Orange County: A Personal History'

  September 11, 2008

• Flack Attack

  February 1, 2001

• Letters

  April 15, 2004

• Helter Shelter

  May 4, 2000

• [Newport Beach Film Fest] You Don't Want to Miss These Films, Documentaries and Shorts

  April 16, 2009

• The Wrath of Chuck

  August 11, 2005

• Ears on Their Heads, But They Dont Hear

  April 14, 2005

• Letters

  March 17, 2005

• The First Jesus Freak

  March 3, 2005

• The Breakfast Club

  August 5, 2004

• Diary of a Mad County

  May 13, 2004

• Notes From The Banana Republic

  April 1, 2004

• Ann Coulters Pillow Case

  July 24, 2003

• This Just In

  June 26, 2003

• Diary of a mad county

  January 3, 2002

• Letters

  November 8, 2001

• Public Display of Affection

  October 18, 2001

• Not Just a Moron

  October 4, 2001

• Bleccccccccccch!

  September 20, 2001

• Weve Been Nuts for Decades

  August 2, 2001

• El Toro Airport Watch

  May 10, 2001

• Cab Tab

  April 26, 2001

• The Manchurian Supervisor

  January 4, 2001

• Duck, Supe

  December 28, 2000

• The Company Paper

  November 23, 2000

• Cox Stocks Take Big Knocks

  October 19, 2000

• Exit Strategy

  June 29, 2000

• The Irvine Co.s Manchurian Supervisor

  April 20, 2000

• We Win

  March 23, 2000

• Labors Big Day

  January 27, 2000

• Losers

  December 2, 1999

• Chuckles

  November 4, 1999

• Top 5 Wacky Things to Come Out of Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin's Pie-Hole

  BoykinHonors for hosting the most controversial book signing of the week go to Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa, which Friday night hosts retired Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, who famously said George W. Bush was not elected by a majority of Americans but "appointed by God," and that America is hated around the world because it is "a Christian nation." As detailed in Never Surrender: A Soldier's Journey to the Crossroads of Faith and Freedom, the new book he co-authored with Lynn Vincent,

  August 20, 2009

• Time for Boston To Give Us Their Crown as the Kings of Bigotry

  OC founding father Henry W. Head: Could take on a Bostonian any day​Let the baseball pundits obsess over whether your Angels will finally beat the Boston Red Sox in the playoffs next week--I care about stripping from Beantown what's now rightfully ours: the title of most-racist 'burb in America.​For decades, critics rightfully deemed Boston as the country's most racist big city, and seriously: what do you expect from a town where micks and goombahs have long dominated politics, culture and d

  September 30, 2009

• Calvary Chapel to Crucify Darwin this Weekend!

  ​While Rick Warren goes around eating ice cream, the mothership Calvary Chapel campus will host a two-day conference starting Friday on the evils of Charles Darwin. Titled, appropriately enough, "Darwin was Wrong," a press release promises many lectures on the subject by scientists who "will present overwhelming scientific evidence against Darwin's speculations." But these aren't just any unbiased scientists--nearly all are affiliated with Logos Research Associates, an offshoot of Calvary Chap

  November 9, 2009