Maven on “Milk”

March 1, 2009

Maven didn’t see many Oscar movies this season in prep the annual Oscar Party. Watching films often gives you a handicap, because you end up being emotionally attached or biased against a movie to consider it on the ballot. Maven made an exception for Iron Man, Kung Fu Panda, Wall-E for darling son and then went to see “Milk”.

Marinite, Sean Penn deserved the Oscar he won. He became Milk with great complexity. I also thought Josh Brolin was brilliant as Dan White. James Franco makes me wish I was in my twenties again. The film reminded me of being in Middle School in Menlo Park and having my Core Teacher in tears telling us that Moscone and Milk were assassinated. I remember the legislation trying to keep gays from being teachers and how I thought that orange juice lady wasn’t very nice or Christian anymore.

My friend, Marooned In Marin has been covering CPAC for us, but he is also talking smack about Sean, the movie “Milk”, and Harvey Milk himself. He claims that Milk “has ties to a mass murder” because he did not stand against the People’s Temple. If Marooned did his research he would not have found any politician standing against him, because Jim Jones did wield political power and provided a lot of social servicesa in the community in San Francisco. Any politician who wanted to get elected knew that the People’s Temple had a tremendous get-out-the-vote capabilities. No one had any idea how bad Jim Jones would get. It took Jonestown for people to take cults seriously, because the People’s Temple were not the druggie Manson Family. Hindsight allows us to paint Jones as a mass murder, but people who have taken the time to the history of the People’s Temple know that Jones took care to cover himself through good works and being politically useful.

To include this connection in the film would take too long to establish who Jones and The People’s Temple were and the enormous amount of people in power who were also supportive of the Jones and the People’s Temple for a variety of reasons. The movie is about the inhuman and un-American treatment of gay citizens in this country and how one man fought to become the first openly gay office holder.

Maroon seems to think something is sinister about not wanting any religious ceremony. Given how religion, namely Christianity treats gays it is a wonder why any are Christian (but they are). Christianity when it works to deny rights and dignity to the LGBT community they commit injustice it deserves to be seen as a negative influence in our country and our constitution. Those religious people who fought for Prop 8 need to be shamed and reminded that their actions are un-American and in opposition to the principles of the founding documents. It one primary reason I do not feel comfortable with being Christian anymore because of Christianity’s treatment of LGBT community. They may say that they love the sinner, and hate the sin, but you cannot love the sinner, when you are asking them to live under different laws you would shafe under. As I have said many times before, Prop 8 is a deeply immoral law. It will go down in history as shameful act of people who live their lives fearing other and wanting to somehow feel superior at the cost of other people’s civil rights.

Penn was right to call out the Catholics, Evangelists, and Mormans who supported Prop 8. Newsflash. If you voted for Prop 8, you are definately a backwards homophobe. There is no way you can vote to deny rights to gays and lesbians and not have a hatred for who they are enough to hurt them in a very deep and essential way. Future generations will judge you as backwards homophobes who deserve to hang their heads in shame.

Maroon blames Harvey for the White Night riots long after Harvey was dead. While I oppose violence, the White Night riot came from the very understandable rage for a man who shot the Mayor and a Supervisor in cold blood in front of everyone and getting a outrageously light sentence. Twinkie Defense my a**.

Color me not at all surprised that Marooned is at an event where 10 out of 12 Craigslist personal ads from CPAC attendees were asking for homosexual liasons. If it were not the republicans and conservatives working tirelessly to deny rights to the LGBT community, I would not care at all what these folk do for recreation during their conventions.

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