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Posted on 07/28/2016 6:02:26 PM PDT by Salman
The Navy is set to name a ship after the gay rights icon and San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, according to a Congressional notification obtained by USNI News.
The July 14, 2016 notification, signed by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, indicated he intended to name a planned Military Sealift Command fleet oiler USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206). The ship would be the second of the John Lewis-class oilers being built by General Dynamics NASSCO in San Diego, Calif.
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Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician who became the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Politics and gay activism were not his early interests; he was not open about his homosexuality and did not participate in civic matters until around the age of 40, after his experiences in the counterculture of the 1960s.
Milk moved from New York City to settle in San Francisco in 1972 amid a migration of gay men to the Castro District. He took advantage of the growing political and economic power of the neighborhood to promote his interests, and ran unsuccessfully for political office three times. His theatrical campaigns earned him increasing popularity, and Milk won a seat as a city supervisor in 1977.
Milk served almost 11 months in office and was responsible for passing a stringent gay rights ordinance for the city. On November 27, 1978, Milk and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, another city supervisor who had recently resigned but wanted his job back. Milk’s election was made possible by and was a key component of a shift in San Francisco politics.
Despite his short career in politics, Milk became an icon in San Francisco and a martyr in the gay community.[note 1] In 2002, Milk was called “the most famous and most significantly open LGBT official ever elected in the United States”.[2] Anne Kronenberg, his final campaign manager, wrote of him: “What set Harvey apart from you or me was that he was a visionary. He imagined a righteous world inside his head and then he set about to create it for real, for all of us.”
Did y’all see what that BS was? “...he was a visionary. He imagined a righteous world inside his head and then he set about to create it for real, for all of us.”
Milk believed just as modern day queers do, they ‘create imaginary worlds, and then set about making it “reality”.
Just what the navy needs,a ship that has to constantly wipe it’s chin.
Just what the navy needs,a ship that has to constantly wipe it’s chin.
Crewed by butt pirates with a squad of rump rangers.
uss bendover
uss poopdeck
uss bugchaser
uss fabulous
uss village people
“In the Navy, you can sail the seven seas...”
Patriots, please remember that the only reason that the Navy is naming the ship after this person is because the corrupt, useless Congress is letting Navy get away with doing so.
Remember in November !
Support the Trump / Pence ticket by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support Trump’s vision for making America great again for everybody.
Needs to be ‘dry docked’.
They probably get some sort of bunk preference.
Was he a colon Commando and part of the brown-eyed battalion of the proctological Brigade?
How long before we have the USS Charles Manson or the USS Al Sharpton or the USS Trayvon Martin or the USS Mohammed ? America is really just a footnote in future history books. Catch up on current events by watching the movie ‘Idiocracy’. It was first aired as satire but now it is a documentary.
Well, we know the decks will be covered with Seamen...
Who can forget the Captain’s memorable dalliance with Fatima of the Lesbo pirate boat?
I want to hear from Admirals, Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, McCain,Sr. , and Spruance on this. They are rolling in their graves on this one.
Think about it...a milatto Marxist gets elected President of the United States by millions of young airheads and a woman with an established record of lies, corruption and dead bodies who stands for nothing but abortion and gun-grabbing gets the votes of millions or idiots...and this the America that generations of my ancestors fought in wars for centuries to protect...I am 73 years old and don’t know whether to puke my guts out or just grab my guns and start the next revolution!
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