The State - News from Jan. 9, 1989

Two Orange County congressmen, Robert K. Dornan of Garden Grove and William E. Dannemeyer of Fullerton, and two state assemblymen, Gil Ferguson of Newport Beach and Nolan Frizzelle of Fountain Valley, sent out a letter urging the repeal of an Irvine ordinance making it unlawful, among other things, to discriminate against people because of their “sexual orientation.” The letter from the four Republican lawmakers charged that Irvine is attempting to “advance homosexuality” and is espousing a “perverse life style.” In response, Jim Boone, a member of the Irvine Human Rights Commission that wrote the ordinance, accused the lawmakers of “using their homophobia to incite trouble.”