Proposed Harvey Milk Day creates quite a stir (murdered homosexual activist)

LA Times ^ | 9/4/2009 | Eric Bailey

[markomalley]

The legacy of Harvey Milk has had a very good year.

Three decades after California's first openly gay elected leader was gunned down in San Francisco City Hall, Milk has been celebrated by an Oscar-winning film, named to the state Hall of Fame and lauded by President Obama.

But despite those posthumous accolades, a legislative push to create a day of recognition for Milk became one of the most contentious issues in the Capitol this year. The proposal, which passed the Legislature on Thursday, is among more than a dozen gay rights bills offered in the aftermath of Proposition 8, last November's ballot initiative that outlawed same-sex marriage in California.

Also on Thursday, the Assembly passed a bill that steps back onto Proposition 8 turf: It would require California to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states before the initiative passed. The Senate passed another bill that would expand protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender prison inmates. And lawmakers had already approved a resolution calling on Congress to repeal the decade-old Defense of Marriage Act.

One proposal before the Legislature would let transgender Californians alter their birth certificates to reflect a new identity. Others address property rights, employment issues and AIDS.

But the issue of a Harvey Milk Day -- a strictly symbolic gesture -- caused by far the largest public outpouring.

[Califreak]

For the Record-Milk and Kool-Aid(the truth about Harvey Milk)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji88EAnDf78

[Tribune7]

Celebrate. Eat a Twinkie.

[Dr. Sivana]

Why does Harvey Milk get all of the attention when Dan White’s main target was the mayor? Being in the wrong place at the wrong time while being a homosexual makes you a martyr?

[popdonnelly]

We’re a nation run by petulant little pressure groups.

[Obadiah]

So, what we see here is that Harvey Milk was/is supported by the left. The film won an Oscar in the way a medal is given to a Special Olympic athlete. Milk is honored within the cocoon of liberals and then liberals are dumbfounded when the general public just doesn't think Harvey Milk had much socially redeeming qualities and basically want nothing to do with honoring his "ways".

[NativeNewYorker]

One proposal before the Legislature would let transgender Californians alter their birth certificates...

I thought I was reading the platform of Britain's Monster Raving Loony Party.

[longtermmemmory]

why don’t parts of california simply seceed from that state?

[moovova]

They’d have better luck if they made it “Milk & Cookies Day”...oh, jeez, hold on a sec, I think I’m gonna be throw up...

[massgopguy]

Milk and Moscone were killed as part of the Jonestown suicide. Jones sent out assassins to bring in everyone.

[DMG2FUN]

Gee one would think someone with all of that praise would reproduce. Oh wait perverted homosexuals cannot reproduce.