California pardons gay civil rights leader in new initiative

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | February 5, 2020 | Don Thompson

[artichokegrower]

A civil rights leader who was gay and a confidant of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was posthumously pardoned by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who also announced Wednesday what may be the nation's first process for forgiving those convicted under outdated laws punishing homosexual activity.

[artichokegrower]

Newsom pardoned Rustin for his arrest in 1953 when he was found having sex with two men in a parked car in Pasadena, where he was appearing as part of a lecture tour on anti-colonial struggles in West Africa.......President Barack Obama honored Rustin posthumously with a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013

And President Trump was criticized for awarding Rush Limbaugh the award much more deserved.

[Viking2002]

F*cking freaks of nature. 99.9% of us wouldn’t qualify for the Presidential Medal of Freedom if we’d cast ourselves into a flaming pit of lava to save humanity, and this wooly-headed sub-human gets idolized for playing Plug The Sewer Pipe with two other FAGGOTS simply because they’re FAGGOTS????

[BwanaNdege]

Newsom selling indulgences now?

Posthumously?

[2banana]

Like Harvevy Milk?

The sexual predator and pedophile?

[jdsteel]

I abhor the way that homosexuality was criminalized and how they lived in mortal danger in the past.

I also abhor how too many of them currently politicize their sexuality and demand special status and unwavering adoration from everyone...or else.

[a fool in paradise]

These dudes were busted having sex in public.

Apparently the gov wants that law repealed.

[ronnie raygun]

newsoms folly

[Churchjack]

I abhor the way that homosexuality was criminalized and how they lived in mortal danger in the past. I also abhor how too many of them currently politicize their sexuality and demand special status and unwavering adoration from everyone...or else.

...maybe, why the abhorrence and criminalization? Our ancestors weren't stupid.

[Verginius Rufus]

I’m surprised that no one is talking about Newsom as the possible candidate to prevent Bernie from getting the nomination. Of course he has been governor only for a short time, but California being in such a mess should make him all the more attractive to Democrats.