Posted on 06/01/2014 8:52:31 AM PDT by EveningStar
Calling slain civil rights hero Harvey Milk a predator on its website this week, the fundamentalist Christian group American Family Association (AFA) urged members to refuse any mail postmarked with a recently-released commemorative stamp featuring the late San Francisco supervisor.
Harvey Milk was a very disreputable man and used his charm and power to prey on young boys with emotional problems and drug addiction, reads the AFAs press release. He is the last person we should be featuring on a stamp.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.com ...
And one of his ‘lovers’ killed himself. So, that might be a stereotype gays would not like to be associated with, a high suicide rate, sad when anyone does it but Milk is one of if not the most famous homosexual in US history and such a thing happened in one of his relationships.
Bttt
If they give Harvey Milk one why not Jeff Dahmer?
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The AFA has been making conservatives look like unhinged loons since 1977. They boycott anything and everything that they perceive as immoral, the end result often being a backlash that brings support and free publicity to those companies they're boycotting.
As far as I can tell, they've only had two successes; in 1986 they joined forces with feminists to have Playboy and Penthouse pulled from the shelves of 7-11. They tried the same thing shortly after with Walden Books and were basically told to get bent.
In the early 2000s they succeeded in forcing clothier Abercrombie and Fitch to remove their borderline pornographic catalogs from the store's checkout counters. (It should be noted that plenty of reasonable people found these catalogs offensive, particularly since they were marketed towards teens.)
The AFA failed epically in going after Ford for advertising in gay magazines. Ford acquiesced at first but the public backlash was so severe that Ford apologized and then doubled-down on gay advertisements. Pretty much every company that has ever paid for an advertisement in a gay magazine has been on the receiving end of an AFA boycott. Whether or not they felt it is debatable.
In 2012, the AFA reminded Americans that Archie Comics still existed when they boycotted it for having a gay character.
I can’t tell my mailman not to drop them off...I think. I read something about a way to do it that made sense, but can’t remember.
Can I tell the mailman not to deliver them?
I looked them up on Google, & it said “hate site”.
I read today on BarbWire.com that England has made homophobia illegal. Are they making the Bible illegal, too?
Of course Muslims are exempt.
Well, other than 9-11, what’s so wrong about Muslims? At least they’re against homosexuality.
Well other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
You can probably mark them “return to sender” and put them back in the box. Maybe they would return them. Still stupid.
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