SAVECALIFORNIA.COM NEWS RELEASE
September 3, 2009 -- For Immediate Release
Assembly Democrats attack children’s innocence, parental rights
Pass ‘Harvey Milk Gay Day’ teaching kids to celebrate ‘LGBT’ lifestyles and agenda
Sacramento, California – The California State Assembly has passed a bill pressuring all California public schools to hold an annual “day of significance” honoring the life and values of homosexual activist Harvey Milk. SB 572 passed on its second attempt today. The vote was 45 to 27, Democrats for, Republicans against.
“The Democrat politicians are telling schoolchildren to honor a sexual predator of teens, a homosexual sex addict who advocated polygamous relationships, and a public liar who justified his deceit,” said Randy Thomasson, president of SaveCalifornia.com, a leading pro-family, pro-child organization that has held a Sacramento news conference today opposing SB 572. “By passing ‘Harvey Milk Gay Day,’ these Democrat politicians have declared war on children’s innocence in exchange for political favors from homosexual groups.”
For more than a month, SaveCalifornia.com has been helping parents, grandparents and concerned citizens oppose SB 572, “Harvey Milk Gay Day,” with calls, faxes, emails, and news conferences. SB 572 now goes to the Democrat-controlled State Senate, which passed the bill in May. If SB 572 passes the California Legislature, this incendiary bill will go to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who last year vetoed “Harvey Milk 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."
Additional Documentation:
The dishonorable deeds of Harvey Milk http://savecalifornia.com/images/stories/PDFs/dishonorabledeeds.pdf
Harvey Milk was a liar
http://savecalifornia.com/images/stories/PDFs/liar.pdf
The negative effect of SB 572 upon schoolchildren http://savecalifornia.com/images/stories/PDFs/sb572effect.pdf
How SB 572 targets kindergarteners and tramples parental rights http://savecalifornia.com/images/stories/PDFs/kindergarten.pdf
"Drinking Harvey Milk's Kool-Aid" by Daniel Flynn
http://www.city-journal.org/2009/eon0521df.html
March 2009 poll showing 4 out of 5 Californians oppose "Harvey Milk Day" http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=8dd73373-5bc1-434e-9df6-84de00449a71
The health hazards of homosexuality and bisexuality
http://savecalifornia.com/blog/?p=173
California Department of Public Health: 72-83% of HIV transmissions are from homosexuality and bisexuality http://savecalifornia.com/images/stories/PDFs/hivaidsmergedmar09.pdf
Feb. 19, 1978 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 http://savecalifornia.com/images/stories/PDFs/harveymilklettertojimmycarter.pdf
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