Comments on: No Milk! Harvey Milk Buttons http://beetlebabee.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/no-milk-harvey-milk-buttons/ Particularly Peculiar Discourse on Family Issues from the Grass Roots Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:26:16 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: lottie http://beetlebabee.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/no-milk-harvey-milk-buttons/#comment-4724 lottie Mon, 11 May 2009 19:55:35 +0000 http://beetlebabee.wordpress.com/?p=3593#comment-4724 Ha! these are great. Harvey Milk was no MLK. I love it. He wasn't either you know. He was divisive. We don't have a lot of holidays, what makes this guy stand out? His deviant sexuality? No thanks. Ha! these are great. Harvey Milk was no MLK. I love it. He wasn’t either you know. He was divisive. We don’t have a lot of holidays, what makes this guy stand out? His deviant sexuality? No thanks.

]]> By: beetlebabee http://beetlebabee.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/no-milk-harvey-milk-buttons/#comment-4643 beetlebabee Fri, 08 May 2009 06:00:10 +0000 http://beetlebabee.wordpress.com/?p=3593#comment-4643 Did you really yell? I didn't hear you. Did you really yell? I didn’t hear you.

]]> By: Euripides http://beetlebabee.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/no-milk-harvey-milk-buttons/#comment-4640 Euripides Fri, 08 May 2009 05:23:26 +0000 http://beetlebabee.wordpress.com/?p=3593#comment-4640 Hate! There. I yelled that out loud. Can I have a holiday in California named after me too? Hate!

There. I yelled that out loud. Can I have a holiday in California named after me too?

]]> By: beetlebabee http://beetlebabee.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/no-milk-harvey-milk-buttons/#comment-4613 beetlebabee Thu, 07 May 2009 20:32:40 +0000 http://beetlebabee.wordpress.com/?p=3593#comment-4613 signab43, Love the arrogance and assumption, but exclaiming "Hate!" on a crowded debate floor doesn't make you any points. What makes you think that a stance against Harvey Milk Day is a stance against homosexuals? Carry the logic through. Would you be prejudiced and intolerant if you disagreed with a day celebrating Jesus Christ or the Pope? How about Jay Leno Day? In a constitution that values every human being there is equal protection for all those human beings, not just the ones who agree with you. Martin Luther King supported freedom for all, without qualifiers. Harvey Milk supported a limited agenda with his own definition of freedom that is against what most people believe. In putting one group's beliefs higher than another's, the essence of freedom is denied. That's not a quality worth celebrating universally. How is a mandatory celebration of one person's extremist views an expression of freedom? signab43,

Love the arrogance and assumption, but exclaiming “Hate!” on a crowded debate floor doesn’t make you any points. What makes you think that a stance against Harvey Milk Day is a stance against homosexuals? Carry the logic through. Would you be prejudiced and intolerant if you disagreed with a day celebrating Jesus Christ or the Pope? How about Jay Leno Day?

In a constitution that values every human being there is equal protection for all those human beings, not just the ones who agree with you. Martin Luther King supported freedom for all, without qualifiers. Harvey Milk supported a limited agenda with his own definition of freedom that is against what most people believe. In putting one group’s beliefs higher than another’s, the essence of freedom is denied. That’s not a quality worth celebrating universally.

How is a mandatory celebration of one person’s extremist views an expression of freedom?

]]> By: signab43 http://beetlebabee.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/no-milk-harvey-milk-buttons/#comment-4612 signab43 Thu, 07 May 2009 20:04:21 +0000 http://beetlebabee.wordpress.com/?p=3593#comment-4612 Yes, Harvey Milk was a pretty interesting guy. It's a great lesson in how prejudice and intolerance can be overcome by a Constitution that values every human being. I love your shrine to Milk Hate. My favorite was the button of Milk in crosshairs that they were handing out at the AFM conference last November. Hopefully somebody will post that one. Yes, Harvey Milk was a pretty interesting guy. It’s a great lesson in how prejudice and intolerance can be overcome by a Constitution that values every human being.

I love your shrine to Milk Hate. My favorite was the button of Milk in crosshairs that they were handing out at the AFM conference last November. Hopefully somebody will post that one.

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