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05.15.2009 9:42am EDT
(Sacramento) The California Senate has approved legislation designating a day each year to honor slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk.
The Democratic backed measure calls for Milk’s May 22 birthday to be used as a time to recognize the late San Francisco supervisor’s contributions. It would not be a formal holiday.Milk was the first openly gay man elected to public office in California. He was assassinated in 1978 and the subject of a biopic earlier this year.
The measure now heads to the Assembly. Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a nearly identical bill last year.
WTH ever happened to the Republican tenant of INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM???
Bud–remember that Mitt Romney proved that an obsolete law can become useful for new forms of discrimination. Most people haven’t even heard of the term “micegenation,” but they know interracial marriage used to be illegal. Some states still have laws on that, and Romney used the never-repealed Massachusetts law (allowed interracial couples to marry there if they were both Mass residents) as a weapon against gays. So yeah, it does matter to do that housecleaning at the state house.
@BOB VERMONT:
The US Supreme Court did away with ALL sodomy laws in Lawrence et al. v. Texas in 2003 … it vacated Hardwick v. Georgia.
A few backward states like Utah refuse to remove sodomy laws from their books, but they are unenforceable.
@STEVEN: The Governator did NOT shoot Harvey Milk; Dan White did. Don’t be stupid.
Maybe the success of the movie will help change his mind? I don’t see why something like a movie should change anything, of course, but the media can be powerful.
At the end of the article are the words “Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a nearly identical bill last year. In the past he also vetoed the gay marriage bill after it was passed by the legislature and only needed his signature to become law. This is the problem with Republicans in general. We should take note of this. They really aren’t our friends.
Harvey Milk (30 years ago) and the Stonewall riots (40 years ago) are part of our history – a part of being gay and please DO NOT VETO THIS BILL! We have come so far – yet soooo far away and plenty of work to do yet
1. 45 states need to provide total “civil marriage equality is a civil right” [notice I did not say "gay" marriage] and the 1,367 benefits that come with it sould be provided for same-sex couples.
2. Are you lisening Obama???? – repeal DOMA and DADT policies. [I do not support Obama, I support Hillary]
3. Obama please sign the Matthew Shepard Act into law.
4. Repeal all sodomy laws in the 20 states that criminalize gay people and even heterosexual people (ONLY between non-commercial consenting adults in private)
5. Education about homosexuality, prevent the ongoing spread of HIV and other STIs.
6. And finally negotiate and talk with church officials – be friendly with them (we ALL need to open-up and move on)
Typical Republican Govs!!!! Vetos anything that is friendly, liberal, equal or controversial.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was the one who shot Harvey Milk – that is why it is the reason he will veto the bill.
I wrote to the Cal. Gov to tell him that Harvey Milk is not merely a local figure as Arnold called him, but rather a figure of great importance to millions of GLBT people throughout the USA of national importance to our community.
C’mon, Arnold, sign the bill. Do something right for a change.