Milk was a very sick man. He preyed on 16 year olds with drug abuse problems. He should not have gotten shot but he certainty should not be commemorated with a stamp.
What she said
Leave it to me to tease this thread along the next obvious conclusion...
..What do you say then about a subculture that knows what he did and instead of distancing themselves from him, instead make him their sexual-behavior icon and get a stamp made after him? Oh, and require kids in California by law to celebrate him each year in schools...? What of that subculture?
By your logic, we need to tear down all the memorials to Thomas Jefferson.
Thomas Jefferson started having sex with Sally Hemmings when she was 15 years old. Hemmings had no choice in the matter, given that she was Jefferson's SLAVE.
But dammit if there aren't a thousand streets and schools named after the guy...
At least he wasn't ******* a boy-slave, that's the important thing.
Hey, how about Joseph Smith and Brigham Young? They were polygamists who married girls as young as 14! And those girls were in a CULT, so it wasn't like they had a lot of choice in the matter. Someone needs to tell those Mormons to stop venerating those guys.
Oh, whew, they weren't banging boys, either. So you aren't going on a daily warpath about them.
Now, I'm starting to get the idea, Sil, that it wasn't the youth that upsets you about Milk, but just the whole gay thing.