Claim: A bill passed by the California legislature seeks to designate
Example: [Collected via e-mail, September 2008]
Already on Governor Schwarzenegger's desk is a very bad bill that will push even more homosexual, bisexual, and transsexual indoctrination upon children as young as kindergarten.
Harvey Milk was a homosexual activist who was a San Francisco supervisor until he was killed in 1978. Milk championed homosexual experimentation,
sexual activism, and the abolishment of sexual boundaries. He also regarded organized religion as dangerous.
The text of AB 2567 states that 'On Harvey Milk Day, exercises remembering the life of Harvey Milk and recognizing his accomplishments as well as the contributions he made to this state' should be conducted; specifically, 'all public schools and educational institutions are encouraged to
If signed into law by Governor Schwarzenegger, every
ACTION: CALL SCHWARZENEGGER TO STRONGLY OPPOSE AB 2567 AND URGE HIM TO VETO
Dial 916-445-2841
1 for English
2 To speak with a staff member (It's painless and just takes a minute.) Tell the staffer that you are strongly opposed to
They will ask for your first name and what City you are calling from.
Please, Please call it takes 3 minutes!
Origins: A bill introduced in the California legislature in February 2008,
country's first [openly] gay man to win elective office when he won a supervisor seat in 1977. A disgruntled Dan White, who had resigned his board seat, killed Milk a year later in his City Hall office along with then Mayor George Moscone. A movie about the gay pioneer's life, simply titled Milk, will have its worldwide premiere in San Francisco [on] Tuesday, Leno's bill honoring Milk would encourage public schools and educational institutions to conduct commemorative exercises to mark his birthday. Should the bill become law, it would not result in a paid state holiday.
Assembly Bill 2567, authored by openly gay state Assemblyman Mark Leno
E-mail forwards such as the one reproduced above urged California citizens to call the governor's office to express opposition to
Leno said the characterization is totally inaccurate. "There's no requirement of any school to do anything," Leno said. "We hope that Harvey Milk Day would provide for an opportunity for teachers to share with their students why the governor has declared
Of Leno's bill, [one] message said, "Homosexual activists intend to use Harvey Milk Day to force school children to celebrate his life and learn more about homosexuality."
Although
In February 2009, Mark Leno (now a state senator) introduced another bill in the legislature to designate
In his [2008] veto message, the Republican governor said Milk should be honored locally by those who were most impacted by his contributions. He did not write a signing message [in 2009] saying why he flip-flopped.
The Republican governor vetoed similar legislation [in 2008]. In the interim, Milk was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and was the subject of a movie for which Sean Penn won the Academy Award for best actor.
Last updated: 12 October 2009
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Hemmelgarn, Seth. "Budget Impasse Stalls LGBT Legislation." The Bay Area Reporter. 11 September 2008. Lin, Judy. "Schwarzenegger Pledge at Heart of Veto Threat." Associated Press. 17 September 2008. Sanders, Jim. "Harvey Milk Day Bill Advances." The Sacramento Bee. 20 May 2008 (p. A4). Sanders, Jim. "Bill Would Declare an Annual Harvey Milk Day in California." The Sacramento Bee. 27 July 2008. Thompson, Don. "Schwarzenegger Creates Day Honoring Harvey Milk." Associated Press. 12 October 2009. Yi, Matthew. "Legislators Work on Bills But Not Budget." San Francisco Chronicle. 8 August 2008 (p. B1). KTVU-TV [San Francisco]. "CA Senate Passes Bill to Designate Harvey Milk Day." 15 May 2009.
