How far we’ve fallen: An official stamp of approval for sexual perversion

The U.S. Postal Service is putting its stamp of approval on homosexual activism in announcing plans to issue a stamp honoring Harvey Milk....man known for his promiscuous lifestyle and his relationships with underage boys.

Barber, Matt (Liberty Counsel)“Well, like so much of ‘progressive’ – that's liberal – propaganda, this is rooted in a whitewashing of reality. It's rooted in historical revisionism,” states Barber.

Activists sympathetic to the homosexual agenda have elevated Milk to the status of martyr, notes Barber, but explains that's a false notion.

“Harvey Milk was known as a pederast,” he says. “That's a man who in his mid-30s had a sexual appetite for teenage boys as young as 15 years old.” According to Barber, that has been confirmed by victims who stepped forward.

“Harvey Milk was demonstrably, categorically an evil man based on his rape of teenage boys,” he states bluntly. “And the fact that our U.S. government would be commemorating and recognizing him as some kind of hero really just boggles the mind.”

Well, White had snapped and obviously wasn’t considering the consequences of his actions. A week earlier, suburban SF Congressman Leo Ryan had been assassinated on Rev. Jim Jones’s orders, so it’s possible that might’ve spurred him on. Remember, he also planned to shoot a few others (including Willie Brown, the future Mayor & CA Assembly Speaker).

It had nothing to do with Milk’s sexual proclivities, but that he had become a political enemy after they had been former allies. If anything, Milk may have spurred on the murders, since after White had hastily submitted his resignation as a City Supervisor (the equivalent of a Councilman/Alderman) and White tried to walk it back, supposedly Mayor Moscone was going to reappoint him until Milk read Moscone the riot act and it changed the Mayor’s mind.

Milk thought he’d gotten rid of an enemy, and supposedly was quite self-satisfied. Anybody should know, you don’t taunt someone who has snapped.

Why the adulations over Milk based on any accomplishments other than the fact he had sex with men (and apparently a boy, as well) ? He had been in office a grand total of 10 months (!) Had he lived, at some point perhaps, he might’ve ended up as Mayor (likely facing off with Feinstein, who was actually a part of the Conservative faction of the Supervisors).

It’s amazing how much Moscone was left in the dustbin of history. It was expected that in 1982 he would run for Governor (and presumably would’ve run to L.A. Mayor Tom Bradley’s left), and quite possibly might’ve managed to beat Deukmejian (as the claim that Bradley’s race may have played a part in his narrow loss that Moscone wouldn’t have faced). Had he won, it would’ve been a given he would’ve been a Presidential candidate by either 1984, 1988 or 1992. Far higher and more influential than Milk.

Of course, with CA having sadly gone moonbat, it’s also possible Milk would’ve been in Pelosi’s House seat today (she wouldn’t have won at all) or even would’ve made it to the Senate instead of either Boxer or Feinstein. But, it’s all speculation. He also might’ve died of AIDS before the ‘80s were out, as so many of his Castro District constituents did.

My money would be on AIDS. And he’d probably still be a martyr if that had happened. Disgusting. Beyond his lust for teenage boys it just seemed like he was a all around jerk.

Weird road to politics, he was a white collar worker in NY, allegedly his first political involvement was volunteering for Goldwater’s campaign! Have you ever heard that?

And one day he got hippyitis, up and moved to SF, came out of the closet and became a queer activist.

Why lionize him, easy, he was the FIRST or least first well known avowed ghey official, and then he got shot. Early death has made legends out of lot people who probably wouldn’t have reached that level if they had lived. JFK comes to mind. Being the first of something also helps makes legends, again JFK. The combination of the 2, very powerful.

It’s indeed amusing how the much more substantial political figure, Moscone, has become an afterthought who pales in fame compared to Milk.

Well, at least Moscone had a convention center named after him. (George who?)

He [Milk] also might’ve died of AIDS before the ‘80s were out, as so many of his Castro District constituents did.

I'm sure AIDS would have been a factor.

Thanks for the history lesson. It's amazing how the media flushes the collective memory of people, even concerning local and recent events.

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