(Supervisor Harvey Milk, left - and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone during the signing of the city's gay rights bill in 1977. AP Picture)

Once again, supporters of Harvey Milk - want the Governor to sign legislation declaring a Harvey Milk Day here in California.

As the Los Angeles Times points out Conservatives are pushing the Governor to veto legislation - which if signed into law would proclaim Harvey Milk's - Birthday (May 22nd) a day of recognition.

Opponents say that move would "send the wrong message to children by endorsing homosexuality and lionizing a man with a controversial personal history."

Randy Thomasson with SaveCalifornia.com was even more plain in his opposition:.

"Harvey Milk is and was a terrible role model for kids.."

Thomasson calls Milk a "public liar" because Milk twisted the truth while running for office about his military career, and a "sexual anarchist" who had multiple boyfriends, one as young as 16.

But others say Milk who's life is the center of "The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk,"  (By Randy Shilts) is a good role model.

The bill would designate May 22 as a day of special significance.

It would …"encourage public schools to observe the day and conduct classroom exercises or lessons concerning Milk."

"Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977 and was one of the first openly gay Americans elected to public office. He and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated at City Hall on Nov. 27, 1978, by former Supervisor Dan White. * "

*From SFGate

According to the book Milk was sexually active with grown men when he was just eleven years old.

Critics claim - Shilts book  ...Left-out the "...fallout that can follow when adult sexuality is imposed on children. Milk and his partners live tumultuous, painful lives, rife with anonymous sex, public sex, bathhouses, prostitution, drugs, depression, alcohol abuse, suicide attempts and multiple partners. "

 "Perhaps this is why the recent biopic with Sean Penn, 'Milk' , skipped over the first forty years of Milk’s life. The film ignores his sexually-addicted forays into bathhouses and public parks, and it doesn’t attempt to deal with his childhood sexual abuse." 

"Later in life, Milk condemned child predators. But he evidently never made the connection with his own childhood sexual abuse or that of his (adult) partners. Nor does he ever question the brokenness that surrounds him – drugs, risky sexual behavior, alcohol abuse, depression and suicide – except to blame society. * "

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*citizen link article