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USS Harvey Milk would be a fitting tribute
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 5/17/12 | C.W. Nevius

Posted on 05/17/2012 8:06:18 AM PDT by SmithL

Petty local politics shouldn't ruin a truly meaningful national gesture, which is naming a U.S. Navy ship after gay icon Harvey Milk.

A ship named for the first openly gay supervisor in San Francisco seems like such a bold and audacious gesture that you wonder whether the Navy would consider such a thing. Actually, it might. Last week, the service commissioned the Cesar Chavez, a ship named for the Mexican American labor leader. Chavez served two years in the Navy during World War II.

So the Harvey Milk makes sense. Although it would be controversial in conservative political circles - some Republicans howled at the Chavez christening - it would stress that gay and lesbian men and women serve the country, too.

Zoe Dunning, a lesbian and retired Navy commander, spoke in favor of the naming at a supervisors hearing earlier this week. She wholeheartedly supports the idea, and in an interview noted that Milk not only served in the Navy during the Korean War, but also was a diving instructor, a physically demanding job.

"How very butch of him," she said, unable to resist poking fun at the stereotype of a gay sailor.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: harveymilk; homosexualagenda; politicalcorrectness; sanfranciscovalues
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To: SmithL

Milk, Chavez, and Murtha - liberals have no sense of tradition, no pride in American exceptionalism, and no shame.


41 posted on 05/17/2012 9:56:20 AM PDT by Pollster1 (“A boy becomes a man when a man is needed.” - John Steinbeck)
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To: SmithL

They should put the refueling stations in the rear.


42 posted on 05/17/2012 9:58:17 AM PDT by dljordan ("Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.")
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To: SmithL

Is this the same San Francisco who’s city council voted against a visit by an aircraft carrier? They can name a ferry boat after Harvey Milk.


43 posted on 05/17/2012 10:02:26 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Socialism isn't going to work this time, either.)
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To: dfwgator
LOL -- what is that, "Monty Python Does Gilbert and Sullivan"?
44 posted on 05/17/2012 10:09:37 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: submarinerswife

As far as I know, Milk was not a cult member, but definitely a supporter of Jones and attended a few of the People’s Temple services.


45 posted on 05/17/2012 10:13:36 AM PDT by Dante3
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To: Dante3

At the very least he was incredibly naive about them.


46 posted on 05/17/2012 10:14:44 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SmithL

Motto of the USS Harvey Milk: “We go down but we never sink.”

or

“Don’t give up the lisp!”


47 posted on 05/17/2012 10:16:10 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: SmithL
After his son "came out", Nevius became a vocal proponent for the homosexual agenda .....

Of course he did. Otherwise, it was his fault.

Known phenomenon, even got Dick Cheney and Barry Goldwater. PFLAG is built on it.

Up next, a new class of mighty battlecruisers: USS Sodom, USS Gomorrah, USS Babylon, USS Sybaris, USS Gay Bay, USS Provincetown.

Escorted as always by the USS Harry Reed, USS Harvey Milk, USS Sasha Cohen, USS Liberace, and the lead ship of the class, USS Rock Hudson.

Barf alert, btw -- where's our barf alert?

48 posted on 05/17/2012 10:17:03 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: SmithL

This story made me think of the Cheech & Chong bit about “Buggery On The High Seas”


49 posted on 05/17/2012 10:19:10 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'll cling to my religion and guns till they're pried from my cold dead fingers!)
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To: popdonnelly
Is this the same San Francisco who’s city council voted against a visit by an aircraft carrier? They can name a ferry boat after Harvey Milk.

Where are the damned North Koreans when you need them?

50 posted on 05/17/2012 10:25:42 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: RichInOC
Your tag line is sick. Love it!
51 posted on 05/17/2012 10:27:10 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: SmithL
More in-your-face, down your throat Politicly Correct Bull ****!
52 posted on 05/17/2012 10:31:25 AM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: SmithL
Hey, what's wrong with a ship named USS Jane Fonda or USS Jesse Jackson?

/s I'm joking dumb@$$ government jerks. Harvey Milk, Jane Fonda and Jesse Jackson are ridiculous names for NAVY ships.

53 posted on 05/17/2012 10:39:42 AM PDT by Chgogal (WSJ, Coulter, Kristol, Krauthammer, Rove et al., STFU. Thank you.)
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To: SmithL

I have a friend who was growing up in San Francisco at the time of Milk’s killing. She says it is really irritating to know that Milk was not the only one who died that day, yet he is the only one people remember. Also, being gay had nothing to do with it. He was a target because he was a city council member.


54 posted on 05/17/2012 11:00:00 AM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: IMR 4350

OK, what’s the joke?


55 posted on 05/17/2012 12:39:39 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: SmithL
A fitting tribute to what, A small minority of people
practicing abhorrent behavior?
56 posted on 05/17/2012 2:29:55 PM PDT by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Unless I’m mistaken, that ship will drop it’s back door and you load it from the rear.

Sounds like Harvey Milk to me.


57 posted on 05/17/2012 2:53:17 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: IMR 4350

*chuckle* Got it, thanks.


58 posted on 05/17/2012 4:16:40 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: DickBrannigan

LOL!...”This is a manly ship....We are manly men” John Belushi


59 posted on 05/18/2012 8:38:23 AM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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