Subject: Wiley Drake

• OC Preacher Casts Death Spells!

  Serena Maria Daniels should find garlic cloves to place around her neck. This morning, the Register reporter broke the news that Buena Park minister WIley Drake is looking to cast evil, lethal spells on his perceived enemies. What's got Drake pissed this time? Apparently, he's angry with two staffers at the Washington, D.C.-based Americans United for Separation of Church and State. They've allegedly exposed the colorful Orange County preacher's legally dubious plot to assist the Mike Huckabee

  August 16, 2007

• Courthouse Vigil Will Call on Sheriff Carona to Repent

  Orange County Pastor Wiley Drake announced today that his church will conduct a prayer vigil at the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse beginning Monday at 5 a.m. in hopes of getting indicted Sheriff Mike Carona to "repent" for his sins. Good luck, Wiley. You're going to need divine intervention. Drake, the leader of an unconventional Buena Park church, must have some insight into the extent of Carona's mischief because the vigil will last for 5 hours. In a statement, Drake also said he wants

  November 3, 2007

• Hail Jesus: The Weekly and Pastor Wiley Drake Save America, One Day at a Time!

  Dearest brethren and sisters of the Internet, God's children all: Let us all join our hands in prayer and thank the Lord for both the Orange County Weekly and Wiley Drake, the Buena Park-based, homeless-person-feeding, gay-bashing, Southern Baptist Pastor. Why blesseth we the Weekly and Pastor Drake? For this, I sayeth: America would certainly have blown up into a million billion little pieces by now if it weren't for them, because God--yeah God, the bearded fella who teaches us that the que

  December 3, 2007

• Wiley Drake: Reverend or Ayatollah?

  "It's not my hit list; It's God's hit list."

  February 16, 2008

• The Messiah Has Returned To Protect Us From Gays, says OC Pastor

  1,975 years after being nailed to a cross for our sins, Jesus Christ, son of God, our savior, the Messiah, Lamb and Nazarene, has just worked a miracle in Oregon. That's the good news being shared by Reverend Wiley Drake, our favorite local gay-bashing Southern Baptist. In one of his relentless, several-times-a-day-emails, Drake tells the Weekly that an Oregon supreme court ruled yesterday that the state's ban on gay marriage is constitutional. You might recall that last week, California's supr

  May 22, 2008

• Gay Marriage Portends Increase in Urine Sex, OC Reverend Reveals!

  Usually I like to pretend Wiley Drake is really on to something when I blog about his crazy shit, but this email, which sat in my junk folder and remains there (I cut and pasted from it) is outrageously ridiculous enough to print verbatim: What Legal Same Sex Marriages Bring into society........... Oral Sex with the ingesting of semen and anal contamination bringing about hepatitis A, gonorrhea, HIV, and hepatitis B Rectal Sex brings a mixing bowl for saliva and its germs and/or an artific

  June 18, 2008

• Which Burger Joints Can Homophobes Trust?

  Don’t laugh. This is a serious question for Reverend Wiley Drake, pastor of the First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park. Early Sunday morning, Drake, with assistance from the American Family Association (AFA), launched what he hopes will be a nationwide boycott of McDonald's. Its sin? The company refused an AFA demand that it remove its name from the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce website and—in a senseless salute to Satan—also allowed “an openly homosexual” McDonal

  July 7, 2008

• "California's Queer Quake"

  About 75 minutes after this morning's Southern California earthquake, Reverend Wiley Drake named the seismic event, "the California Queer Quake," and announced via email to his nationwide followers that "another queer quake [is] trying to get California's attention." Won't you listen, damn it? "Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire," quoted Drake, a resident of Buena Park." "We ha

  July 29, 2008

• Diary of a Mad County

  April 3, 2003

• Red County Nearly Turns Blue!

  . . . and if that happened, would the righty Red County blog have to change its name? Final election results from OC: PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT Completed Precincts: 2109 of 2109 Vote Count Percentage JOHN MCCAIN / SARAH PALIN (REP) 430,360 50.8% BARACK OBAMA / JOE BIDEN (DEM) 401,605 47.4% BOB BARR / WAYNE A. ROOT (LIB) 5,884 0.7% RALPH NADER / MATT GONZALEZ (P-F) 5,470 0.6% ALAN KEYES / WILEY S. DRAKE, SR. (AI) 2,672 0.3% CYNTHIA MCKINNEY / ROSA CLEMENTE (GRN) 1,720 0.2% McC

  November 5, 2008

• Why Does Obama Birth Certificate Say What They Say It Does Not?

  Among those commenting to the extended-play interview with Buena Park Pastor Wiley Drake over his legal action contending Barack Obama was not born in this country and should not be sworn in as president is Linda from Mariposa, who writes:The Certificate of live birth is not a birth certificate--period! Obama's mother (private detective) was never in any hospital in Hawaii to even give birth. Even the announcement in the paper is an address that shows he never lived there. COLB's are usually giv

  December 18, 2008

• This Week in the OC Weekly

  In "Out of Tune" Gustavo Arellano interviews Bob Gunn, the man who helped Mariners Chruch become an evangelical giant. Then the church fired him for being gay, and they've been in and out of court since. News has Matt Coker explaining why Pastor Wiley Drake thinks he still has a unseating Barack Obama--sorry, Barack Hussein Obama in "The Preacher vs. the President-Elect."And R. Scott Moxley takes a look at the new math on how many Mike Carona campaign contributors got badges in "Moxley Confident

  December 19, 2008

• Is Rick Warren Outing His Tolerant Self of Just Bluffing?

  UPDATED WITH PASTOR WILEY DRAKE SAYING GOD WILL PUNISH RICK WARREN FOR PARTICIPATING IN OBAMA INAUGURATION (SEE THE VERY END).The choice of Rick Warren as Barack Obama's inaugural invocation giver has apparently so touched the leader of Lake Forest's Saddleback Church that he has become The Most Tolerant Pastor Ever!!!He posed for a photo that has his arm around an openly gay guy at the Out of the Closet thrift store in West Hollywood. He met with Melissa Etheridge, apologizing for the way

  December 23, 2008

• When the Going Gets Tough, the Rick Warren Scandal Gets Weird

  MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has today's best assessment of the Rick Warren-Barack Obama invocation dust up: "Not only is it getting worse, it's getting weirder."Yesterday, there was Pastor Wiley Drake of First Baptist Church in Buena Park demonizing Warren's participation in the Jan. 20 inauguration of our "evil illegal alien" president-elect, saying God will punish Drake's fellow Southern Baptist preacher Warren.Wacky fundies who have been critical of Warren's social agendizing Christianity for years

  December 24, 2008

• Looking Back at 2008: The Ecstasy and the Irony

  This is not a look back at disgraced Sheriff Mike Carona, the Little Sheriff, the Debs, the Little Debbie Snack, the Freeway Complex Fire, Rick Warren, Wiley Drake, any lantern-jawed preacher with the last name of Schuller, pedo-priests, the 241 toll road extension, Proposition 8, fluctuating gasoline prices, the mortgage meltdown or the havoc that phenomenon wreaked. No, these are 15 stories from 2008 that may have fallen through the cracks were it not for the wonders of online archives and sl

  December 31, 2008

• Why Isn't Wiley Drake Suing God Over Inauguration?

  We've previously told you about Buena Park pastor Wiley Drake suing to prevent Barack Obama from being inaugurated as president of the United States on Jan. 20 and, if that fails, suing to stop U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts from delivering the oath of office to Obama. For good measure, Drake has tried to prevent Rick Warren from giving Obama's invocation by warning the wrath of God will strike his fellow Orange County pastor.But one even higher authority somehow escaped Drake and

  January 5, 2009

• A Different, Insider Perspective on the Recent Fullerton Gang Attack on a Church

  There has been much recent media coverage about a recent attack by Fullerton's longstanding Tokers Town gang against the Rev. Willie Holmes and his storefront Majesty Christian Fellowship church in their hood. Marches, arrests, and much other hullaballoo. Having a much different perspective on the attacks, however, is Sandy Stiassni, who is involved with the OC Green Party and a local LULAC chapter, amongst others. He sent out a long email with his perspective on the attacks which he has generou

  February 19, 2009

• Orange County's Obama-Deniers Keep On Keeping On

  The Mission Viejo Dispatch has an item today about local dentist Dr. Orly Taitz. You might remember her as an associate of Alan Keyes and Weekly interviewee Wiley Drake in their lawsuit trying to prove that Barack Hussein Obama isn't technically qualified to be president. Now, Taitz, claiming to represent more than 100 members of the armed forces, has filed a petition with members of congress to issue some subpoenas to some pretty big names: Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates and those pesky academic

  March 5, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  December 25, 2008

• Buena Park Pastor Wiley Drake Believes He Still Has a Prayer of Unseating Barack Obama

  December 18, 2008

• [Moxley Confidential] The Strange Case of the Deputy-Confiscated Videotape

  September 11, 2008

• The Anti-Immigrant All-Stars

  May 4, 2006

• Commie Girl

  April 27, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  April 27, 2006

• Wiley Coyote

  November 10, 2005

• Contest!

  April 3, 2003

• God Help Him

  February 20, 2003

• Son of Scary

  November 7, 2002

• Buena Park

  September 27, 2001

• When Wiley Drake Comes Marching In

  June 28, 2001

• Letters

  January 18, 2001

• In the Name of the Father

  December 28, 2000

• It's a Wu-Tang After All

  February 24, 2000

• Inquiring minds want to know . . .

  December 23, 1999

• January-March

  January 7, 1999

• April-June

  January 7, 1999

• Diver Down

  August 13, 1998

• The Last Crime Mike Carona Committed on His Sentencing Day (To Our Knowledge)?

  Since no one correctly guessed who made the prison-rape crack about disgraced, felonious ex-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona (it was Buena Park pastor Wiley Drake, although the last guess--KOCE-TV's Real Orange anchor Ann Pulice--was HILARIOUS) and we so desperately want to give away the cover above, I submit another trivia challenge:As Carona, his wife, and attorney Brian Sun left the courthouse Monday and the mob of amateur reporters (bloggers and YouTubers) that trailed them like stray dogs

  April 29, 2009

• WTF!?! Pastor Wiley Drake Opens Dialogue With Muslims

  CORRECTED...In stark contrast to Muslims hating Jews--and vice versa--at UC Irvine comes a revelation from Buena Park that must be accompanied by visions of flying pigs, a frozen-over Hell and galloping steeds of the Apocalypse. First Southern Baptist Church Pastor Wiley Drake is hosting an appearance by Imam Muhammad Siddeeq, the [former assistant to late Honorable leader Imam W.D. Mohammed (1975-2008), who was the] son of Nation of Islam founder the Hon. Elijah Mohammad. [Prior to accepting Un

  May 8, 2009

• Moderate Earthquake Strikes LA, OC

  Crashing PlatesAt 8:39 p.m., an estimated 5.0 magnitude earthquake centered in the Hawthorne/Inglewood area rocked Los Angeles and Orange County, according to me, my neighbors and Caltech. In Santa Ana, the quake felt like it lasted about 15 seconds and seemed determined to topple a bookcase. LA news outlets are wrongly reporting that only LA residents felt the shaking.No doubt that Rev. Wiley Drake of Buena Park will blame the plate tectonics on the Long Beach gay pride festival that's underw

  May 17, 2009

• Rev. Wiley Drake Prays for Obama's Death

  Somehow, we here at Weekly HQ missed that the Rev. Wiley Drake of First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park not only declared last week that the murder of Kansas abortion Dr. George Tiller had been the answer to his "imprecatory" prayers, but that the so-called Man of God later announced he'd made a similar prayer of death for President Barack Obama. Listen for yourself above.Is that even legal?

  June 9, 2009

• Rev. Wiley Drake Leads List of OC's July 4 Teabaggers

  Just call him Rev. TeabaggerThe Rev. Wiley Drake, last heard from praying for President Barack Obama's death, leads the list of Orange Countains who have stepped up to lead the "Official Tax Day TEA Party" in their communities on July 4.TEA stands for Taxed Enough Already, by the way. Besides the controversial pastor at First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, teabaggers and the towns they represent include: Greyson Peltier, Aliso Viejo; Roberto Guererro, also Buena Park; Barbara Smyth, Dana

  June 15, 2009

• Meet Orly Taitz, Queen Bee of People Obsessed With Barack Obama's Birth Certificate

  June 18, 2009

• Wiley Drake Gets the Keith Olbermann Stamp of Disapproval

  Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Pastor Wiley Drake of First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park has been previously recognized for interfaith gestures, helping the less fortunate and sheltering the homeless on church property despite threats from lawsuits, neighboring residents and city code enforcement.He's also lashed out against gays, Disneyland, gays, the Clintons, gays, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, gays and, of course, homeless gays wearing mouse ears,

  July 15, 2009

• Wiley Speaks! On Keith Olbermann Naming Him "World's Worst Person"

  Pastor Wiley DrakeWell, guessed who showed up in the ol' email inbox, responding to MSNBC's Keith Olbermann naming him the "World's Worst Person"? It's First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park pastor Wiley Drake, who drew the dubious distinction for saying he's prayed for the deaths of President Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and fellow pastor Rick Warren.  Alas, the good reverend's reaction is short and, uh, brief: "Olbermann is my new press secretary," types Drake

  July 16, 2009

• Media Matters Gives a Nod to Weekly Cover Story on Birthers

   A Media Matters rundown on the key nutbars in the "birthers" movement that claims Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. includes a couple plugs of Spencer Kornhaber's "Birth of an Obsession" June 19 cover story. The media watchdogs focus in particular on Kornhaber's reporting on Orly Taitz, the Laguna Niguel denist, attorney, real estate agent and queen bee of the birthers, and Wiley Drake, the Buena Park Southern Baptist pastor, homeless advocate, Alan Keyes' presidential running mate in

  July 24, 2009

• Crank Trifecta: A Birther-Tea Bagger-Town Hall Crier Rolled Into One

  Media Matters gets the scoop on this morning's Fox & Friends bringing together the living embodiment of the "grass-roots" Birther, Tea Party and Healthcare Town Hall movements--without acknowledging it, of course, because that would be embarrassing even to Fox News.

  August 19, 2009

• Orly Taitz's Day In Court

  John Gilhooley / OC Weekly​Today, Dr. Orly Taitz Esq., the Laguna Niguel dentist, lawyer and real estate agent who is attempting to sue Barack Obama out of office, appeared before Judge David O. Carter in Santa Ana's Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse. The occasion: a hearing in her lawsuit, Barnett vs Obama. We were there.Midway through the hour-and-change hearing, it became clear that in Taitz's mind, today was going to be a day straight out of a Dean Koontz-Dan Brown mash-up novel. It didn't

  September 8, 2009

• Pastor Wiley Drake Has Obama-Death-Prayer Competition

  Pastor Steven Anderson with a future mind ripe for polluting.First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park pastor Wiley Drake now has high-profile competition when it comes to praying for President Barack Obama's death. Pastor Steven L. Anderson of Tempe, Arizona's Faithful Word Baptist Church--which, from the looks of it in this video of his "Why I Hate Barack Obama" sermon, appears to have been decorated by the Blind Boys of Alabama--told congregants recently that he also prays for the pr

  September 10, 2009

• Orly Taitz and Barbara Coe, Together Again

  ​Well, this isn't shocking. Laguna Niguel's Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq., the key anti-Obama lawyer that has had every single one of her lawsuits challenging the President's eligibility dismissed, will be speaking at an upcoming meeting of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform.You remember CCIR, Gustavo's favorite bashers of Mexicans, Muslims, gays, vaccines and reality. It's actually where Taitz first met Rev. Wiley Drake, one of the first plaintiffs in her lawsuits (they've since become es

  November 4, 2009