Nearly a decade ago TIME Magazine selected 100 most important people of the century. The selection process included “people who exemplify courage, selflessness, exuberance, superhuman ability and amazing grace”. Among those honored with such high esteem were Anne Frank, Billy Graham, Helen Keller, Mother Theresa, Rosa Parks—and Harvey Milk.

If you live in California or stay abreast of left-coast politics, you would already know that Harvey Milk is synonymous with the homosexual rights movement. He served on San Francisco’s board of supervisors as the ‘mayor of Castro (homosexual) district’ until he and the mayor were assassinated in November of 1978.

As a means of honoring Milk, the California Assembly and the Senate recently passed AB 2567 and is now awaiting Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s signature. If signed into law, this bill would set aside May 22 as a special day to commemorate the life of Harvey Milk in California public schools bestowing upon him the same honor we reserve for George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr.

TIME reporter John Cloud explained why we need Milk day. “Harvey Milk became the first openly gay man elected to any substantial political office in the history of the planet.” Sounds perfectly reasonable to me! Who wouldn’t want to honor a man who advocated homosexual rights as ardently as Milk? Cloud further explained in his article how Milk was more than the average homosexual – he was an “avowed homosexual,” meaning he flaunted his aberrant sexuality unabashedly even though, “Many psychiatrists still called homosexuality a mental illness”. What this means is that not only did Milk champion ‘gay rights’, he had to contend with society telling him he was mentally ill. (What courage!)

But I would submit to you that the psychiatrists were wrong on this issue. Homosexuality is not a mental illness, but rather, a spiritual one. The apostle Paul tells us in his epistle to the Churches at Rome how God gave individuals over to a reprobate mind to commit such unnatural acts with each other. The homosexual lifestyle is the clear demonstration of judgement from God.

“For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error,” (Rom 1:26-27).

The TIME article tells us that Harvey Milk is one of the world’s most important people of the last one hundred years solely because he thumbed his nose at societal norms and decent behavior. Perhaps by the end of the next century we will afford the same honor to polygamy, polyandry, incest and bestiality.

Now, some might suggest that the ‘slippery slope’ argument is a logical fallacy, but I say that in a nation that rejects the idea of a God and moral absolutes there is no rational basis upon which to oppose such degenerate lifestyles. If there is no such thing as morality, and every nation is allowed to define the latter according the dictates of the majority, then is stands to reason that anything can be justified if enough people agree.

And all of this brings us back to California politics once again. But all is not lost…You can make your voice heard in the Harvey Milk case even if you do not live in California. Simply call the Governor’s office at the number listed below and follow the directions:

1-916-445-2841

Press 1 for ‘English’ (hey, it’s California!)
Press 2 for ‘legislation’
Press 1 for ‘Harvey Milk AB 2567’
Press 2 for ‘No’