{"id":29988,"date":"2012-05-16T19:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T23:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29988"},"modified":"2012-05-16T19:00:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T23:00:39","slug":"gays-oppose-uss-harvey-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29988","title":{"rendered":"Gays oppose USS Harvey Milk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former3c0 sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/05\/16\/plan-to-name-navy-vessel-after-harvey-milk-sparks-criticism-from-gay-community\/\">a Fox News articl<\/a>e which tells us that gays weren&#8217;t a monolithic pro vote in the discussion whether naming a Navy ship for the murdered gay activist is such a good idea. This is about a vote that took place at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors subcommittee vote;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Supervisor Christina Olague], the dissenter in the 2-1 vote this week, was joined in opposition by the city\u2019s gay Democrat club named after Milk and other activists. She told the San Francisco Chronicle she prefers a national holiday honoring Milk.<\/p>\n<p>Activist Tommi Avicolli Mecca wrote in a recent blog post: \u201cThe Milk who served in the Navy and the Milk who, less than two decades later, defied the taboos of his day to have sex with men, grow his hair, smoke pot and oppose the war in Vietnam, were completely different individuals.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess they can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29693\">considered bigots<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s funny that there seems to be a tiered system of activism on the Left. Apparently, &#8220;anti-war&#8221; takes precedence over &#8220;gay issues&#8221;. Anyone want to play to play rock-paper-scissors for it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former3c0 sends us a link to a Fox News article which tells us that gays weren&#8217;t &hellip; <a title=\"Gays oppose USS Harvey Milk\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29988\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gays oppose USS Harvey Milk<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}