{"id":17530,"date":"2012-05-01T00:44:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T03:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17530"},"modified":"2013-10-30T20:00:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T23:00:20","slug":"rep-wants-navy-ship-named-for-homosexual-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/01\/rep-wants-navy-ship-named-for-homosexual-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep Wants Navy Ship Named for Homosexual Activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Congressman Bob Filner (D-CA) has reportedly asked the US Navy to <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2012\/04\/rep-bob-filner-calls-for-navy-to-name-ship-for-gay-leader-harvey-milk.html\">name a ship after Harvey Milk<\/a>, a homosexual activist who was killed while serving as a San Francisco supervisor in 1978. Milk also served in the Navy in the early 1950s &#8212; apparently illegally, <!--more-->given his homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>Filner told the Navy it would &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/2012\/04\/ap-rep-wants-ship-named-after-harvey-milk-042512\/\">promote equality<\/a>&#8221; in the post-DADT environment.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy previously drew fire for naming a ship after Cesar Chavez, but defended the move, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/2011\/05\/ap-chavez-military-ship-051811\/\">saying<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the vessels recognize American pioneers and visionaries who changed the country and the world for the better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps the ship could fly the rainbow colors <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/03\/us-soldier-raises-gay-pride-flag-over-afghan-base\/\">previously raised in Afghanistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Congressman Bob Filner (D-CA) has reportedly asked the US Navy to name a ship after Harvey Milk, a homosexual activist who was killed while serving as a San Francisco supervisor in 1978. Milk also served in the Navy in the early 1950s &#8212; apparently illegally,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[58,3199,3202,78,219,3116,3201,442,2,36,3200],"class_list":["post-17530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-bob-filner","tag-cesar-chavez","tag-congress","tag-dadt","tag-gay-pride","tag-harvey-milk","tag-homosexual","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}