Hate Group American Family Association: Don't Open Letters Bearing Harvey Milk Stamp

It is with good reason that the American Family Association was designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center: it disseminates an endless stream of deliberate anti-gay lies, cites utterly discredited "research" regularly and in general seeks to whip up homophobia on a minute by minute basis.  It also seeks to retaliate against businesses that are gay friendly and/or market to the LGBT community.  With the U.S. Postal System's release of a stamp honoring Harvey Milk, the spittle is flying fast and furiously at AFA headquarters and cretinous AFA followers are being urged to reject mail if it bears a Harvey Milk stamp.  Not to be out done, KKK loving Tony Perkins of Family Research Council joined the hate fest.  Right Wing Watch has details on the raging batshitery.  Here are excerpts:

Incensed by the release of a postage stamp honoring Harvey Milk, the American Family Association is urging its members not only to avoid purchasing the stamp…but to refuse to accept or open any letter or package postmarked with one.

1. Refuse to accept the Harvey Milk stamp if offered by your local post office. Instead, ask for a stamp of the United States flag.

2. Refuse to accept mail at your home or business if it is postmarked with the Harvey Milk stamp. Simply write 'Return to Sender" on the envelope and tell your postman you won't accept it.

In his daily email alert yesterday, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins also attacked the Obama administration for issuing the stamp, linking the move to the imprisonment of a Sudanese mother who is facing the death penalty for her conversion to Christianity: “[T]he Obama administration -- which had more than enough time to throw a party in honor of homosexual activist Harvey Milk -- hasn't had a spare second to demand the freedom of two of America’s youngest citizens.”

FRC also marked the occasion by republishing a 2009 article by senior fellow Peter Sprigg attacking Milk:

Pro-homosexual activists will describe the issue as one of identity – “who they are.” But the real issue is one of behavior – what they do. And what Harvey Milk (like other homosexual activists) wanted was not only the freedom to engage in homosexual sex, but the right to do so without ever being criticized. Milk told one audience that “it is madness to … be ashamed of the sexual act, the act that conceived you. …” Yet homosexual acts never conceived anyone, which is what separates them, undeniably, from heterosexual acts.

Since Harvey Milk died from an assassin’s bullet, over a quarter million American men have died of AIDS, which they contracted because they had sex with other men. What’s truly “madness” is that someone whose only claim to fame is that they promoted such deadly behavior should be honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom.