Subject: Howard Ahmanson

• GOP $ Man: Stoning No Longer "A Necessity"

  Ever committed adultery? Are you homosexual? Prop 90 supporter Howard Ahmanson Jr. wouldn't mind stoning you. Yesterday we discussed Howard S. Rich, a wealthy fellow from New York, and his intense desire to screw with California government by financing groups that back Proposition 90. And Prop 90 is likely to bleed the state dry like a vampire on a binge. But vampires have to be invited in, which leads one to wonder—who invited Rich out here anyway? For the answer, look no further than our

  October 14, 2006

• OC Fundie Funder Gives Money to Wacky Reeps, Homo-Haters--And Lou Correa?!

  The most influential Orange County man you've never heard of is undoubtedly Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr., heir to the Home Savings (remember that bank?) fortune. He rarely makes public appearances due to suffering from Tourette's Syndrome, but that hasn't stopped him from giving millions of dollars away to some of the craziest causes imaginable: creationism, anti-gay marriage, anti-gay clerics in the Episcopalian Church, and so many others that in its list of America's most influential evangelicals a

  June 19, 2008

• Ahmanson-Funded Creationists Palling with Islamic Counterparts

  In the Department of Hypocrisy...the Discovery Institute, largely funded by board member, certified homophobe and Orange County native Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr., is the country's premier organization pushing for the teaching of creationism in American classrooms over evolution. They're now helping out Islamic creationists in Turkey, according to the excellent Canadian Broadcasting Corporation show, The Current. Ahmanson is a Christian of the worst kind, of the kind who considers Muslims apostates

  July 22, 2008

• Baby Hewie Firmly Aligned With Howard Homophobe Ahmanson

  In the couple of years I've been listening to local conservative blabbermouth Hugh Hewitt, I've seen the two causes he most firmly aligned himself with fail miserably: the 2006 mid-term election and the laughable presidential primary effort of Mitt Romney. Let's hope Hewie makes it a losing trifecta with his endorsement of Proposition 8, the anti-gay-marriage initiative. Besides beginning to devote more attention to the cause on his radio show (and shouldn't that count as a campaign contribution

  August 18, 2008

• Is Howard F. Ahmanson Reading Navel Gazing?

  *Updated, with new information on the bottom... Over the Labor Day weekend, someone claiming to be Christian fundie financier Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr. left the following comment on my previous post about local conservative blabbermouth Hugh Hewitt being in cahoots with Ahmanson to end gay marriage in California. The comment also addressed a previous post about how Ahmanson also gave money to Lou Correa, who has a spotty record on gay rights: Dear Ask a Mexican, I think I was wrong now in what

  September 1, 2008

• On A Flippant Attitude Toward the Diocese of Orange Sex Abuse Scandal

  September 18, 2008

• Nativo Lopez Organization Cowardly Stays "Neutral" on Propositions 8 and 4

  Remember Nativo Lopez? Guy called Larry who became radicalized during the 1960s, led renter strikes against SanTana slumlords during the 1980s, served on the SanTana Unified School Board during the 1990s, then was recalled for his conflict-of-influenza, amongst other sins in early 2004? He's spent the last couple of years trying to remake himself as the next great Chicano Movement leader by heading the Mexican American Political Association (MAPA), a once-great group that now has the moral weigh

  October 14, 2008

• Endorse-O-Matic!

  November 7, 2002

• Rick Warren Offers to Save Homo-Hating St. James Anglican Church, But Where's Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr?

  Rick Warren has finally crossed the Rubicon of homo-hating with his invitation to St. James Anglican Church in Newport Beach to set up camp at Saddleback Church because the California State Supreme Court recently ruled they can't stay on their Balboa Peninsula property. A quick primer: St. James split with its Episcopal diocese in 2004 because they didn't like the idea of a gay man getting ordained as a bishop and began taking its orders from a homo-hater in Uganda. So this isn't even a gay-marr

  January 13, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  September 18, 2008

• Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr. Responds to Weekly Query

  Over the weekend, Christian philanthropist extraordinaire and Weekly reader Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr. responded to my post asking whether he'd buy a new property for Newport Beach's St. James Episcopal Church because they're currently homeless for casting their theological lot with a homo-hating Ugandan. His email is below. Dear Gustavo, I am not going to answer any questions on Capistrano, because I don't really understand the situation there. I did that on the recommendation of my chief of staff

  January 26, 2009

• Howard Ahmanson Jr. Only the Second Biggest Hater

  Gustavo's pal Howard F. Ahmanson Jr. just missed the top spot on the Dishonor Roll published online by Californians Against Hate. The Knights of Columbus of New Haven, Conn., gave $1.425 million to the campaign for the same-sex-marriage-barring Prop. 8, while Howie only ponied up $1.395 million.Hey, it was a tough year.Other Orange County haters of note include former state Sen. Rob Hurtt, who owns Container Supply Co. in Garden Grove and gave $550,000, just edging out repellant James Dobson's F

  February 3, 2009

• Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr. Has a Website!

  A couple of months ago, my pal, religious-right funder extraordinaire Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr., responded to my offer of blogging for Navel Gazing with the exciting news that he and his company, Fieldstead & Co., would soon launch a website complete with blog. A couple of days ago, under the headline "The Notorious Fieldstead Website," Ahmanson sent me this email:I just discovered that the Fieldstead website, fieldstead.com, has been open for business since November 1st! Anything on it is pub

  March 18, 2009

• Busy Weekend for Haters, "So-Called" Hater

  When the Clockwork Scooter pulled out the Weekly parking lot Friday evening, there were just over 50 comments to the post that went up shortly after authorities revealed Angels rookie pitcher Nick Adenhart died in a Fullerton car crash. At last check today, there were 112 comments. That means, according to the little comment tracker on the Navel Gazing page, that the Adenhart post has passed 9-11 Truther Wackiness Now Most Commented OC Weekly Post Ever! (110) and with a good push could top

  April 13, 2009

• Rick Warren is a Big, Fat Coward

  So Purpose Driven® Rick Warren is blaming his no-show on the ABC news program This Week because he sniffed too many fumes at the pulpit? Is this the beginning to a bad Catholic joke? And Warren is still insisting that every culture in human history has defined marriage as between a man and a woman, despite the big, glaring local example? Too funny. Hey, Purpose Driven® Rick: your short tenure as America's Pastor has produced nothing but hilarity, one that makes Bill Graham's anti-Semitic ravin

  April 13, 2009

• Have the Problems of the Capo Unified School Board Been Solved After the Recall/Reform Movement Won?

  January 22, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  January 8, 2009

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

  September 11, 2008

• Orange Countys 31 Scariest People

  November 4, 1999

• A CLOCKWORK NARANJA

  August 11, 2005

• OC's 31 Scariest People

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  October 27, 2005

• Diary of a mad county

  January 3, 2002

• I Went to My Kids Soccer Game and an English Soccer Game Broke Out

  July 12, 2001

• Freebies for the Rich

  November 30, 2000

• If You Believe They Put Mine on the Moon

  June 1, 2000

• It's the End of the World As We Know It

  September 10, 1998

• Republicans Who Smear Republicans

  June 4, 1998

• 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

• Proposition 8 Is Keeping Same-Sex Couples From Marrying, But It Has United OC's Gay Community

  November 19, 2009

• Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr. FINALLY has his Blog Up!!!

  ​For almost a year now, in private email between he and I, fundie-funder supreme Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr. has claimed he was developing a blog to express his views instead of merely haunting Navel Gazing. I started to doubt Ahmanson would ever do it, but here it is: Blue Kennel, which makes no sense to me as a blog name, but what are you going to do? Already, the blog has offered a glimpse into the true Ahmanson mind, one that's not always set on denying gays the right to marry, support schisma

  November 20, 2009