From Homefront Crusade:
ShareU.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered the renaming of the ship, USNS Harvey Milk, which was named after the famous, proud homosexual. The replenishment oiler was named during the Obama administration in 2016. There is no shortage of articles condemning Hegseth for this move, in which writers laud a so-called “gay icon” while pointing to “our nation’s values” as if sodomy wasn’t a capital crime throughout most of the nation at its founding. They speak esoterically about values, but it would be incredibly difficult to make homosexuality into an “American value” within the framework of an honest history.
Harvey Milk was not a man whom we can remember for an array of public contributions despite a struggle with same-sex attraction. Rather, he is known principally for his attractions, which he acted to normalize and encourage. As is common to the point of stereotype, he was attracted to boys, and had at least one “relationship” with a 16-year-old boy while Milk was in his mid-30s. Pederasty seems inseparable from homosexuality, and tragically, is so often how they reproduce—they cannot beget, so instead they groom. The fact that Milk was murdered does not make his efforts praiseworthy, nor his cause moral.
A common objection to rebranding the ship with a decent name is one of apathy, which is to say, “why bother?” It’s a complacency that comes from how it is easier to resign oneself to how things are than to deal with the logistics and fallout of fixing them. That’s often how the slippery slope effect takes place culturally and politically. It’s a type of normalcy bias that makes people immune from seeing the danger in one’s current circumstances (because catastrophe hasn’t yet happened). We know it is an error because history is full of examples in which decadent societies met their collapse. (Read more.)
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