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Sweet Jesus, they're at it again...The "USS Harvey Milk?!?!?"
 An op-ed from - naturally - the San Francisco ChroniclePetty local politics shouldn't ruin a truly meaningful national gesture, which is naming a U.S. Navy ship after gay icon Harvey Milk. A ship named for the first openly gay supervisor in San Francisco seems like such a bold and audacious gesture that you wonder whether the Navy would consider such a thing. Actually, it might. Last week, the service commissioned the Cesar Chavez, a ship named for the Mexican American labor leader. Chavez served two years in the Navy during World War II. Good God...between the Cesar Chavez, the (gag) John Murtha and the LCS named after a Democrat House backbencher who was nearly unknown until being shot by some nutjob, you just know this jackass will be all over this idea... Rep. Bob Filner, D-San Diego, the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, made the formal request to the Secretary of the Navy, and supporters lined up. Next on the list...the USS Freddie Mercury! And how about the USS Liberace? And let's not forget the USS RuPaul...we have to give proper public honor to the entire LGBT community, after all! Then some people lost their compass. Supervisor Christina Olague, who voted against the idea in committee this week, thinks Milk's objection to the war in Vietnam makes a Navy ship a poor choice. "It's a warship," she said. "I'm not convinced that reflects Harvey Milk values." Even more vehement is gay activist Tommi Avicolli Mecca. "Why not name a bomber after Gandhi?" he asks. "The purpose of the military is to kill people, no matter how we look at it. I know Harvey opposed the Vietnam War, and if he were alive, he would be against the wars we are in now. I think it is inappropriate." If the Bay Area's hard-left, military-hating nut sandwiches can put the kibosh on this stupid phuecking idea, I'm almost willing to forgive them for being hard-left, military-hating nut sandwiches. Posted by: Sleanter Unereting7946 2012-05-18 |
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