{"id":2443106,"date":"2025-06-05T05:50:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-dems-breathlessly-defend-ship-named-after-pederast\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T05:54:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:54:44","slug":"media-dems-breathlessly-defend-ship-named-after-pederast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-dems-breathlessly-defend-ship-named-after-pederast\/","title":{"rendered":"Media, Dems Breathlessly Defend Ship Named After Pederast"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fmedia-dems-breathlessly-defend-ship-named-after-pederast%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=2443106&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 controversy surrounding the potential renaming of the U.S. Navy vessel currently named after Harvey Milk, a prominent figure in LGBTQ+ rights. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly initiated plans to change the ship&#8217;s name in alignment with priorities to &#8220;reestablish the warrior culture,&#8221; eliciting strong reactions from Democrats and media outlets. They argue that renaming the ship diminishes the legacy of Milk, who was the first <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >openly gay elected official<\/a> in California and was assassinated in 1978. Though, the article also highlights serious allegations against Milk, portraying him as a predator who engaged in inappropriate relationships with minors.<\/p>\n<p>The piece juxtaposes the celebratory narrative of Milk&#8217;s contributions to gay rights against the allegations of his past, including his rumored connections to Jim Jones. The reactions from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/five-people-who-live-rent-free-in-the-minds-of-the-left\/\" title=\"Five People Who Live Rent Free In The Minds Of The Left\">key political figures<\/a> like rep. Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer emphasize the perceived vindictiveness of the renaming decision, yet neither addresses Milk&#8217;s alleged predatory behavior. The coverage by various media outlets is critiqued for omitting these details, focusing rather on Milk&#8217;s legacy as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leaked-audio-of-joe-biden-telling-black-civil-rights-leaders-he-wont-go-all-in-on-executive-orders-to-appease-the-far-left-infuriates-progressives\/\" title=\"Leaked Audio of Joe Biden Telling Black ... He Won\u2019t Go All in on Executive Orders to Appease the Far Left Infuriates Progressives\">civil rights leader<\/a>. The discussion also touches upon the broader context of renaming policies within the Navy, extending beyond Milk to other vessels as well. the article presents a polarized view on Milk&#8217;s legacy and the implications of renaming military assets in contemporary America.  <\/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<div>\n<p>The Democrats and the corporate media came out guns blazing with a temper tantrum about how a U.S. Navy vessel may no longer be named after gay pedophile Harvey Milk.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly told the Office of the Secretary of the Navy to make plans for renaming the ship USNS Harvey Milk, <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=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to Military.com, to come into &ldquo;alignment with president and SECDEF objectives and SECNAV priorities of reestablishing the warrior culture.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The left considers Milk a &ldquo;gay rights icon&rdquo; for being the first openly homosexual elected official in California. Milk was serving on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors when he was murdered in 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Milk, however, was a predator of young boys, as The Federalist <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/11\/09\/while-losing-wars-u-s-military-celebrates-pederast-harvey-milk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>. Milk&rsquo;s biographer wrote that the then-33-year-old pursued a 16-year-old boy who was apparently in a vulnerable place and &ldquo;looking for some kind of father figure.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The pedophile, who was dishonorably discharged from the Navy after being questioned about his sexual activities in 1955, would also use alcohol and drugs to subdue underage boys and young men and manipulate them into perverse sexual activity.<\/p>\n<p>He also had an affinity for infamous cult leader Jim Jones, a fellow sexual predator and architect of the mass murder-suicide of his followers in Jonestown, Guyana. Jones funded Milk&rsquo;s political career, and Milk praised Jones&rsquo;s cult, telling him, &ldquo;Rev. Jim, it may take me many a day to come back down from the high that I reach today. I found something dear today. &hellip; I found a sense of being that makes up for all the hours and energy placed in a fight. I found what you wanted me to find. I shall be back. For I can never leave.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the murder-suicide claiming the lives of more than 900 people, Milk flippantly called it &ldquo;a great experiment that didn&rsquo;t work. I don&rsquo;t know, maybe it did.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Milk was not exactly the person anyone would have expected to be honored with being the namesake of a U.S. Navy vessel &mdash; an idea first floated by the Obama administration. But at the news of the potential renaming, Democrats and their bootlickers in the corporate media immediately fell into a frenzy.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., <a href=\"https:\/\/pelosi.house.gov\/news\/press-releases\/pelosi-statement-reported-navy-decision-rename-usns-harvey-milk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> the renaming is a &ldquo;surrender of a fundamental American value: to honor the legacy of those who worked to build a better country&rdquo; and that it was &ldquo;a shameful, vindictive erasure of those who fought to break down barriers for all to chase the American Dream.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently for Pelosi, being a pedophile is part of building a &ldquo;better country&rdquo; and the &ldquo;American Dream.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenSchumer\/status\/1929994333186650240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">added to the hyperventilating<\/a>, saying, &ldquo;Erasing Harvey Milk&rsquo;s name is disgusting, blatant discrimination &mdash; and during Pride Month to boot. He served the U.S. Navy and his country honorably, and he was assassinated while serving the public and fighting for LGBTQ+ rights.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, neither Democrat mentioned Milk&rsquo;s pedophilia or his predatory activities. And apparently every corporate news outlet screeching about removing his name miraculously forgot to mention those details as well.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/06\/04\/who-harvey-milk-navy-ship-renaming\/84024661007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">egregious headline<\/a> came from USA Today, where the story &mdash; titled &ldquo;Who was Harvey Milk? Navy vessel may be stripped of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-navy-launches-ship-named-after-gay-rights-leader-harvey-milk\/\" title=\"U.S. ... Launches Ship ... After ... Leader ...\">gay rights leader<\/a>&rsquo;s name&rdquo; &mdash; feigned to inform about Milk and the Navy vessel.<\/p>\n<p>There was zero mention of his pedophilia.<\/p>\n<p>To <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/06\/04\/nx-s1-5422936\/hegseth-harvey-milk-navy-ship-name\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NPR<\/a>, Milk was a &ldquo;gay rights leader,&rdquo; and to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/harvey-milk-navy-ship-renamed-pride-month-d6cda5df15ee5bc066092d54c591c6f2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AP<\/a>, he was a &ldquo;gay rights activist&rdquo; whose name was chosen as one of several &ldquo;leaders who fought for civil and human rights&rdquo; and had their names features on the John Lewis class of ships.<\/p>\n<p>CNN even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/06\/04\/us\/harvey-milk-navy-ship-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cited<\/a> a Milk biography (just not the pedophilia part), and called Milk a &ldquo;gay rights icon,&rdquo; and argued that Milk was behind some kind of &ldquo;heroic&rdquo; forced outing of Oliver Sipple, who is said to have helped thwart the assassination of President Gerald Ford.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2025\/06\/03\/harvey-milk-navy-hegseth-civil-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called<\/a> him a &ldquo;gay rights icon&rdquo; who &ldquo;fiercely championed gay rights.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/03\/us\/politics\/navy-ships-harvey-milk-renamed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">left in shock<\/a> about how the decision was being made during &ldquo;pride month,&rdquo; which, the rag writes, &ldquo;celebrates the contributions of luminaries in the L.G.B.T.Q. community.&rdquo; The outlet called Milk &ldquo;one of several trailblazers&rdquo; whose names are on the John Lewis class of ships.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the Navy announced that all John Lewis-class vessels would be named after &ldquo;civil rights leaders,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2016\/07\/28\/navy-name-ship-gay-rights-activist-harvey-milk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to U.S. Naval Institute News. Milk&rsquo;s name was chosen alongside far-left former Chief Justice Earl Warren, former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, suffragette Lucy Stone, abolitionists Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman, and former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.<\/p>\n<p>The USNS Harvey Milk was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/11\/09\/while-losing-wars-u-s-military-celebrates-pederast-harvey-milk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">christened<\/a> in 2021 by Paula M. Neira, a Navy veteran claiming to be &ldquo;transgender,&rdquo; who became the first person to change his discharge documentation to indicate inaccurate pronouns.<\/p>\n<p>According to Military.com, other John Lewis-class vessels are also undergoing a review for potential renaming.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Breccan F. Thies is a correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats and media reacted strongly to renaming a Navy ship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":2443107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/8800544-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[50410,4188,56562,5894],"class_list":["post-2443106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-controversy-2","tag-media","tag-namesakes","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/8800544-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443110,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443106\/revisions\/2443110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2443107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}