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“Gay Day” Another Holiday That Won’t Excuse Me from School

The Cal­i­for­nia State Leg­is­la­tor is cur­rently twid­dling with a cer­tain bill AB 2567. If you read it through you will real­ize that they are propos­ing to have a Hol­i­day cel­e­brat­ing Har­vey Milk.

If you have no clue who Har­vey is he was a ground breaker in poltics for gay peo­ple. Time mag­a­zine describes notes him as “The first openly gay man elected to any sub­stan­tial polit­i­cal office in the his­tory of the planet.” Sadly he was assas­si­nated. If passed May 22(Day After the White Riots and  My Birth­day) of each year  will be con­sid­ered as Har­vey Milk Day.

This bill requires the Gov­er­nor to pro­claim May
22 of each year as Har­vey Milk Day, and des­ig­nates that
date as hav­ing spe­cial sig­nif­i­cance in pub­lic school and
edu­ca­tional insti­tu­tions and encour­ages those enti­ties to
con­duct suit­able com­mem­o­ra­tive exer­cises on that date.

So in essence it will be just as impor­tant as hol­i­days like Mar­tin Luther King Day, Colum­bus Day and pretty much any hol­i­day that banks get off of, but not schools.

Oh, but this bill has not been passed yet. The ever rowdy Chris­tan Con­ser­v­a­tive groups are call­ing arms and mobi­liz­ing their intol­er­ant forces. They are going after swing Democ­rats and try­ing to have them stop this hol­i­day from occur­ring. Really we let you guys have Jesus is born day, Jesus Dies day, Jesus comes back to life day. The least you can do is let us have one hol­i­day about a brave soul who set the polit­i­cal ground work for a whole minority.

In related news a movie about Har­vey Milk is in pro­duc­tion at this time. With Sean Penn, Josh Brolin and Emile Hirsch each play­ing a major role this movie is sure to be a success.

Here is an audio clip that Har­vey recored if he were to be assas­si­nated

Update:Senate and Cogress Peo­ple Passed it. Up to gov­erner now. Will he veto it stay tuned.

August 9th, 2008 Reply