{"id":2442756,"date":"2025-06-04T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lgbt-crowd-handed-major-defeat-navy-ordered-to-strip-gay-activists-harvey-milks-name-from-ship\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T11:21:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T15:21:38","slug":"lgbt-crowd-handed-major-defeat-navy-ordered-to-strip-gay-activists-harvey-milks-name-from-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lgbt-crowd-handed-major-defeat-navy-ordered-to-strip-gay-activists-harvey-milks-name-from-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBT Crowd Handed Major Defeat &#8211; Navy Ordered to Strip Gay Activists Harvey Milk\u2019s Name from Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flgbt-crowd-handed-major-defeat-navy-ordered-to-strip-gay-activists-harvey-milks-name-from-ship%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2442756&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the decision by Defense Secretary Pete hegseth to rename a Navy ship that previously honored Harvey Milk, a controversial figure known for his work in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/progressives-capture-the-rainbow-flag-for-transgender-politics\/\" title=\"Progressives Capture the Rainbow Flag for Transgender Politics\">gay rights movement<\/a> and for being criticized for <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >inappropriate relationships wiht underage boys<\/a>. The renaming aligns with a broader initiative under Hegseth and President Trump to reshape the Navy&#8217;s cultural values. The announcement of the new name is set for June 13, coinciding with Pride Month, which has triggered backlash from LGBT activists and Democratic leaders, including Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, who view the renaming as an attack on the legacy of a significant advocate for LGBTQ+ rights. Critics of milk&#8217;s legacy highlight his alleged predatory behavior and his association with the cult leader Jim Jones, suggesting that his past disqualifies him from being honored in such a manner. The article presents polarized opinions on the renaming, encapsulating the ongoing cultural and political debates in the U.S. regarding historical figures and their legacies.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>In yet another reminder of the left&rsquo;s warped value system, LGBT activists are up in arms because Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the Navy to rename a ship that had honored pederast and gay rights &ldquo;icon&rdquo; Harvey Milk.<\/p>\n<p>The renaming is being done to reflect the Navy&rsquo;s &ldquo;priorities of reestablishing the warrior culture&rdquo; pursuant to the wishes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pete-hegseth-gives-history-lesson-leftists-upset-pentagon-prayer-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hegseth<\/a> and President Donald Trump, according to an internal memo&nbsp;viewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2025\/06\/03\/hegseth-orders-navy-strip-name-of-gay-rights-icon-harvey-milk-ship.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Military.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While a new name has not been revealed, it will be made public on June 13, the memo stated. As a reminder, June is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-company-declares-june-biblical-marriage-month-publishes-helpful-chart-confused\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&ldquo;pride&rdquo; month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a surprise to no one, the USNS Harvey Milk was christened in 2016 during the presidency of Barack Obama, who also posthumously awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Milk, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-cost-of-waging-world-war-trans\/\" title=\"The Cost of Waging World War Trans\">gay-rights activist<\/a> in San Francisco during the 1970s, was a diving officer in the Navy.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; 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Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joma_gc\/status\/1930002050290725072?\">June 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Predictably, the usual motley crew of leftists expressed outrage at Hegseth&rsquo;s decision to rename the Navy ship celebrating Milk.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/pelosi.house.gov\/news\/press-releases\/pelosi-statement-reported-navy-decision-rename-usns-harvey-milk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> Tuesday, Democratic Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nancy-pelosi-mocked-laughable-explanation-whole-mission-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a> of California condemned the renaming as a &ldquo;spiteful move [that] does not strengthen our national security or the &lsquo;warrior&rsquo; ethos.&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Instead, it is a surrender of a fundamental American value: to honor the legacy of those who worked to build a better country,&rdquo; she huffed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Erasing Harvey Milk&rsquo;s name is disgusting, blatant discrimination&mdash;and during Pride Month to boot.<\/p>\n<p>He served the U.S. Navy and his country honorably, and he was assassinated while serving the public and fighting for LGBTQ+ rights.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth should be ashamed of himself and reverse&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qc6pGh9chE\">pic.twitter.com\/qc6pGh9chE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSchumer\/status\/1929994333186650240?\">June 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While Democrats and their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/anti-semitic-roundup-nbc-invents-new-name-jews-boulder-pd-wont-admit-terror-msnbc-turns-firebombing-suspect-white-cnn-attacks-fbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">establishment media<\/a> lapdogs whitewash Milk&rsquo;s background, his seedy history includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/harvey-milk-stamp-matt-barber_n_4117311\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">preying on teenage boys<\/a> and championing homicidal cult leader Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, Jones brainwashed 909 members of his cult to commit mass suicide by drinking poisoned Kool-Aid in 1978.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Milk attended services at Peoples Temple dozens of times, and wrote effusive letters to Jones,&rdquo; according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/jim-jones-made-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2018 book<\/a>, &ldquo;Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Such greatness I have found in Jim Jones&rsquo;s Peoples Temple,&rdquo; Milk gushed, according to the book.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Harvey Milk was a notorious San Francisco pedophile who preyed on young teen boys, and who also helped his close confidante and con man Jim Jones to swindle and lure hundreds of poor black families to move to Jonestown, where Harvey&rsquo;s friend Jim killed them all after subjecting&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8yqeOeZPiy\">https:\/\/t.co\/8yqeOeZPiy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeenanPeachy\/status\/1929961418109137335?\">June 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Milk was also a rabid pederast who once groomed a 16-year-old runaway, who later committed suicide, according to the 1982 book, &ldquo;The Mayor of Castro Street,&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Harvey Milk was a statutory rapist.<\/p>\n<p>Milk, then 33, groomed a 16-year-old troubled runaway to live with him.<\/p>\n<p>The boy repeatedly threatened to commit suicide, and eventually did.<\/p>\n<p>&lsquo;The Mayor of Castro Street&rsquo;, author=1st openly gay reporter at the SF Chronicle, Randy Shilts <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mg5xrx9UDR\">https:\/\/t.co\/Mg5xrx9UDR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E85ECo1Gpo\">pic.twitter.com\/E85ECo1Gpo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; An Open Secret (@AnOpenSecret) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnOpenSecret\/status\/1930027923228000696?\">June 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is Harvey Milk with his 16 year old live in boyfriend and teenage runaway Jack Galen McKinley, who later committed suicide&hellip; Why the hell was a Navy vessel named after this pedo? Oh yeah I forgot, Obama. &#129318; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HvfU1Zpfm3\">pic.twitter.com\/HvfU1Zpfm3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The &#128048;&#128371;&#65039; (@TheHoleTweet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheHoleTweet\/status\/1930072174758449465?\">June 4, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Given his sleazy background, Milk should never have been honored with a Navy ship being named after him.<\/p>\n<p>His stint in the military does not erase his background as a child predator and advocate for a homicidal cult leader.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Matt Barber, the associate dean at Liberty University School of Law, has slammed the left&rsquo;s absurd lionization of Milk as historical revisionism.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Harvey Milk was known as a pederast,&rdquo; Barber said in 2013, per the Huffington Post. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s a man who in his mid-30s had a sexual appetite for teenage boys as young as 15 years old.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Harvey Milk was demonstrably, categorically an evil man based on his rape of teenage boys. And the fact that our U.S. government would be commemorating and recognizing him as some kind of hero really just boggles the mind,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/video-emerges-black-students-allegedly-attacking-forcing-white-students-say-black-lives-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Lives Matter<\/a> to criminal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/stephen-millers-simple-solution-illegal-immigrant-killed-woman-driving-90-mph-entire-family-will-deported\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">illegal aliens<\/a> to Harvey Milk, leave it to Democrats to consistently come down on the wrong side of history.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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