CALIFORNIA
Orange County Weekly
By Gustavo Arellano
Thu., May 24 2012
We at the Weekly had enough respect for former GOP chairman Tom Fuentes to not invade his funeral yesterday and cause a scene–but we’re beholden to the truth, so damn straight we’re going to blast his funeral for the parade of pedophile apologists and protectors that it was.
The main attraction, of course, was Fuentes, rotting in hell as we speak for his longtime role as the communications director for the Catholic Diocese of Orange at a time where local priests were raping kiddies as if their jobs depended on it. But testifying on Fuentes’ behalf were men that the Fuentes family should’ve kept a state away for their sick association and support of pedophiles, both of the priestly and not variety.
Roll call of the pedophile apologists!
*Giving the homily was the man who replaced Fuentes as communications director, Lawrence Baird. Baird was a notorious asshole to many sex-abuse victims, defended vile pedophile Michael Harris as “an icon to the priesthood” to the media even as the Orange diocese knew he was a pedophile rapist, and even once sued a sex-abuse victim for defamation (he lost). Yet Fuentes wanted this man to give the homily? Birds of a feather…
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