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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmerican Family Association: Don't Open Letters With Harvey Milk Stamp
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/american-family-association-dont-open-letters-harvey-milk-stamp1. 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 Americas youngest citizens.
That address once again:
American Family Association
P.O. Drawer 2440
Tupelo, MS 38803
spanone
(135,635 posts)hiding behind religion
so tony, why is harvey milk on a stamp and not tony perkins?....cause you're a fucking hater, that's why.
iandhr
(6,852 posts)This is a different group of bigots entirely.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)and amazingly, he's from the Bay Area!
Siwsan
(26,177 posts)See how fast they open it.
Here's the donation:
PotatoChip
(3,186 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Why does the AFA hate Jesus?
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)I have been having most f*%ked up of days... you just made it sooo much better with that!
In fact, I think I'd be willing to spend my last $2 to get a few Harvey Milk stamps and send them to those haters using their address as the return address (as mentioned below) with the fake cash (as seen below) and send all my negativity to them.
Thanks for a capital idea!
Siwsan
(26,177 posts)I've had one of those days, too, and dealing with the departmental right wing, homophobic "born again" hypocrite served as my inspiration.
I'm totally with you on that. They seem so blinded by their hate that they simply don't know what heck they're talking about anymore (of course, that's assuming they ever knew what the heck they were talking about).
I'm all for helping them either waking up or their heads exploding. Either one works for me.
PoliticalPothead
(220 posts)And the "donation inside" should be a sheet of Harvey Milk stamps.
Siwsan
(26,177 posts)nilram
(2,879 posts)mountain grammy
(26,571 posts)Don't want to send that organization more than $1.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)I like the way you think.
3catwoman3
(23,819 posts)...the truth.
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)I like it.
Erose999
(5,624 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)Response to KamaAina (Original post)
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shenmue
(38,501 posts)theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)Perkins has only inspired me to get a roll of those stamps as soon as possible!
AnotherDreamWeaver
(2,846 posts)LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)make sure you not only put their address on the body of the envelope, but put their address in the return address section as well. That way when they refuse the letter it will come back to them anyway.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)then if the won't open them to pay them, may their utilities be cut off, the house and car repossessed.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Can only lead them into troubles.
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)And his lawyer is mailing them the check.
I'd LMFAO if they ripped it up.
zappaman
(20,605 posts)Glorfindel
(9,706 posts)At any rate, I intend to buy some and probably just keep them.
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)Marge Gunderson: It's terrific.
Norm Gunderson: Hautman's blue-winged teal got the 29-cent. People don't much use the three-cent.
Marge Gunderson: Oh, for Pete's sake. Of course they do. Whenever they raise the postage, people need the little stamps.
TYY
Skittles
(152,964 posts)that's they came up with the Forever stamp
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)Haven't you ever seen 'Fargo?'
TYY
Skittles
(152,964 posts)I still have a slew of "little stamps" from those days
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)...but it's definitely a classic. I highly recommend everyone watch 'Fargo' at least once.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fargo/
TYY
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)gwheezie
(3,580 posts)Ilsa
(61,675 posts)They were so cute together.
"I think I'm gonna barf!"
winstars
(4,213 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,617 posts)What costs 32 cents to mail? Post cards are 34 cents, basic letter is 49 cents. Additional ounces aren't 32 cents either. Why make a stamp that can't be used? Unless the idea is to make a profit on the seigniorage - to make somebody use two of them (64 cents worth of postage) to mail a 49 cent letter. Of course stamp collectors also help out by buying stamps and then never using them.
ISUGRADIA
(2,571 posts)The image in the original message is not the stamp issues by the post office. Different image and a forever stamp.
Glorfindel
(9,706 posts)Than just buy and save them.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)You have to remember everything and learn nothing. Gotta be wearing on a body.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Skittles
(152,964 posts)but then again, the AFA *IS* a joke
I don't get the stamp though - 32 cents? Is that a postcard rate?
gollygee
(22,336 posts)Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)I have news for the Mr. Perkins...the majority of Americans are tired of your anti-gay hateful rhetoric and empty threats. They see you for what you are a hateful little prick who probably has homo-erotic attractions. My experience, as a gay man, is when a man is so filled with hatred for gay men it is usually because they have gay attractions. My gaydar goes off when I encounter these men and it is fairly accurate.
Regardless of your hatred, we will see marriage equality in this country. ENDA will be passed to ensure LGBT persons are safe in their jobs and homes from homophobic discrimination. We will continue to see LGBT Americans increasingly accepted and welcomed into their communities, faith traditions, etc.
Mr. Perkins, even with those changes in our law, you will still be free to be a hateful, pathetic, unhappy, miserable human being. You will still be able to spew your vulgar, baseless and trite soundbites.
But LGBT Americans will have the same rights, nothing more and nothing less than you have enjoyed your entire life. You have never had to fight for anything sir. You are a coward.
As to your boycott it will only hurt your followers when they miss a bill, a letter from a long lost friend or relative, a letter containing a $1M check, etc.
They are not hurting Harvey Milk. He is already in heaven. They are not hurting the LGBT community. If you think so it is only in your little perverted mind.
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)gays have gay leanings themselves.
TBF
(31,922 posts)liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)There should be an envelope sending campaign all with Harvey Milk stamps.
Turbineguy
(37,212 posts)for envelopes that contain checks.
madamesilverspurs
(15,784 posts)One ginormous dollar. And to preserve its security, I'll wrap it inside a couple a pages from the newspaper. Of course, that would make the envelope really heavy. Hmmm. I guess that, in addition to the Milk stamp, I'd just have to use one of those Eid stamps that I saved. What the hell, if they're going to go apoplectic it ought to be worth it, eh?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)hedgehog
(36,286 posts)Unless there are two, a 32 cent stamp and a forever stamp?
jmowreader
(50,453 posts)The one you posted is the stamp that's for sale.
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)word signifying bigotry against gays and lesbians?
Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)every one send them a letter, all with the Milk stamp on it.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)American Family Association
P.O. Drawer 2440
Tupelo, MS 38803
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)I'll turn on the tv and watch the public concern and support for the event!!!
iandhr
(6,852 posts)Pun very much attended
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from District 5,
Milk was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.
Milk moved from New York City to settle in San Francisco in 1972 amid a migration of gay men to the Castro District. He took advantage of the growing political and economic power of the neighborhood to promote his interests, and ran unsuccessfully for political office three times. His theatrical campaigns earned him increasing popularity, and Milk won a seat as a city supervisor in 1977, part of the broader social changes the city was experiencing.
Milk served almost 11 months in office and was responsible for passing a stringent gay rights ordinance for the city. On November 27, 1978, Milk and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, another city supervisor who had recently resigned but wanted his job back. Milk's election was made possible by and was a key component of a shift in San Francisco politics. The assassinations and the ensuing events were the result of continuing ideological conflicts in the city.
Despite his short career in politics, Milk became an icon in San Francisco and a martyr in the gay community.[note 1] In 2002, Milk was called "the most famous and most significantly open LGBT official ever elected in the United States".[1] Anne Kronenberg, his final campaign manager, wrote of him: "What set Harvey apart from you or me was that he was a visionary. He imagined a righteous world inside his head and then he set about to create it for real, for all of us."[2] Milk was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Milk
Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)Yr'honour, I couldn't open the bill because it had a Harvey Milk stamp on it"
Blue Owl
(49,918 posts)n/t
hatrack
(59,442 posts)Or will they be coated with Gay Conversion Cooties?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)although Harvey (and, lest we forget, Mayor Moscone) died from another American epidemic, gun violence. In fact, I'm convinced that if Dan White had killed only Moscone, he would have been executed, Twinkie defense be damned.
LoisB
(7,076 posts)people even notice what stamp is on their mail?
tclambert
(11,080 posts)(I think it's actually self-stick. So if you lick it, it's because you want to.)
dougg
(48 posts)Cliven Bundy and his militia buddies would have to reject mail delivered with the American flag stamp.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)these religious freaks need to go. they only represent hate and we have to weed the hate out of this country.
merrily
(45,251 posts)gmoney
(11,559 posts)They kept spitting on the front of it...
kentauros
(29,414 posts)to put Tricky Dick behind bars