SAVECALIFORNIA.COM NEWS RELEASE
August 25, 2009 -- For Immediate Release
Governor Schwarzenegger must veto 'Harvey Milk Gay Day'
Despite going into 'Hall of Fame,' Harvey Milk is a terrible role model for kids
Parent alert: Contact Schwarzenegger to demand he veto SB 572 »
Sacramento, California -- SaveCalifornia.com, a leading West Coast pro-family organization, is sad and disappointed that Harvey Milk will be inducted into the California Hall of Fame.
"Harvey Milk was a notorious sexual predator, advocated multiple sexual relationships
at the same time, was a public liar, and is in no way a good role model for children," said Randy Thomasson, President of SaveCalifornia.com.
"It's sad and disappointing that the Governor and First Lady are honoring this man who did many dishonorable deeds," Thomasson said. "This, when the overwhelming majority of parents oppose the establishment of 'Harvey Milk Gay Day' in public schools for children as young as kindergarten. This guy is a terrible role model for kids!"
SaveCalifornia.com has created a web page empowering concerned Californians to call, fax and send emails to Governor Schwarzenegger and state legislators, urging them to reject SB 572, "Harvey Milk Gay Day."
"'Harvey Milk Gay Day' would teach schoolkids all about the life and very controversial values of Harvey Milk," said Thomasson. "Based on the historical record of Milk's sordid life, this could include teaching elementary and secondary schoolchildren that adult-child homosexual 'sex' is OK, having multiple sexual relationships at the same time is OK, and telling a very public lie is good if it 'gets you ahead.' This instruction, whether taught directly or indirectly, is not what parents want or children need."
A SEXUAL PREDATOR OF TEENS
Randy Shilts, a homosexual San Francisco Chronicle reporter, wrote a favorable and sordid biography of Milk in "The Mayor of Castro Street." The 1982 book detailed Milk's sexual relationships with a 16-year-old, a 19-year-old and other young men:
"...sixteen-year-old McKinley was looking for some kind of father figure...At 33, Milk was launching a new life, though he could hardly have imagined the unlikely direction toward which his new lover would pull him." (pages 30-31)
"It would be to boyish-looking men in their late teens and early 20's that Milk would be attracted for the rest of his life." (page 24)
"Harvey always had a penchant for young waifs with substance abuse problems." (page 180)
"Harvey confided one night that at twenty-four, Doug was the oldest man Harvey had ever started an affair with." (page 237)
ADVOCATED MULTIPLE SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS AT THE SAME TIME
Explaining Milk's many flings and affairs with teenagers and young men, Randy Shilts writes how Milk told one "lover" why it was OK for him to also have multiple relationships simultaneously:
"As homosexuals, we can't depend on the heterosexual model...We grow up with the heterosexual model, but we don't have to follow it. We should be developing our own life-style. There's no reason why you can't love more than one person at a time. You don't have to love them all the same. You love some less, love some more -- and always be honest with everybody about where you're at. They in turn can do the same thing and it can open up a bigger sphere." (pages 237-238)
PUBLICLY LIED FOR YEARS ABOUT HIS MILITARY CAREER
"He had not suffered this disgrace, he told a later campaign manager, but he knew the story would make good copy. If anyone said something to Harvey about his fondness for such stunts, he would gesture wildly as launched into a lecture. 'Symbols, symbols, symbols,' he insisted. Sure, he had not been kicked out of the military...The point of the story was to let people know that service people routinely do get kicked out. Besides, he once confided, 'Maybe people will read it, feel sorry for me, and then vote for me.'" (Randy Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street, p. 78-79)
The text of SB 572 states that "On Harvey Milk Day, exercises remembering the life of Harvey Milk, recognizing his accomplishments, and familiarizing pupils with the contributions he made to this state" shall be conducted; specifically, "all public schools and educational institutions are encouraged to observe...and...conduct suitable commemorative exercises."
"This bill is not about 'gay rights' or 'stopping harassment,'" said Thomasson. "Instead, SB 572 is outright promotion of everything Harvey Milk believed in -- the entire gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual agenda pushed upon schoolchildren as young as kindergarten, without parental permission."
The dishonorable deeds of Harvey Milk »
Harvey Milk was a liar »
The negative effect of SB 572 upon schoolchildren »
How SB 572 targets kindergarteners and tramples parental rights »
"Drinking Harvey Milk's Kool-Aid" by Daniel Flynn »
See the poll showing 4 out of 5 Californians oppose "Harvey Milk Day" »
The health hazards of homosexuality and bisexuality »
California Department of Public Health: 72-83% of HIV transmissions are from homosexuality and bisexuality »
See the Harvey Milk letter to President Jimmy Carter, calling for a young boy to remain in Jim Jones’ custody, who, less than nine months later, was killed by Jones
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