While reading a post in the blog, liberalvaluesblog.com, I chose to focus my attention on the social issues at hand. I came across a post regarding same sex marriage and, after being already aggravated from the results in Maine, began to feel myself tremble from anger. This anger was not just focused on the stupidity of Maine voters but on the leaders of the gay rights movement as well. I decided to watch the movie, Milk, starring Sean Penn as the gay rights activist Harvey Milk. I watched this in complete amazement and then felt myself become saddened by our current leaders in the gay rights movement.
There are lessons to be learned from the life of Harvey Milk. He did not ask for rights, he demanded them. When remarks were made about a correlation to homosexuality and pedophilia, he called out its blatant lack of fact and he ended up winning. Our modern gay rights leaders have forgotten these lessons. They have become tamed, like caged animals at a circus freak show. When the rights of gay men and women were taken away, there were riots, and they were not these pussy-whipped marches that are a mere allusion to what a protest truly is.
When the police brutally harassed gay men and women, these true activists fought back. Now, today’s gay rights activist quiver in fear of being labeled a faggot, queer, or cocksucker. Harvey Milk, the man who brought the gay rights movement to the level where it is currently at, would be ashamed of our modern soldiers for equal rights. Yes a peaceful protest has its merits but not when families are being destroyed and not when rights are being taken away.
Therefore, where is our modern Harvey Milk? Where is the leader who will transcend the barriers of being politically correct and attack those who oppress us? Yes it is a sad day when families are cast into a lower realm of existence. Yes it is sad when the rights of one segment of America are thrown into a realm of mere fantasy. However until we are willing to fight for those rights that we cherish and covet, I fear that we may be unworthy of them.
