National Parks Promote Homosexuality
June 2, 2014
LIBERALISM demands not just that homosexuality be approved, but that it be celebrated. Anything less would be unfair. From AllGov.com:
Declaring part of its duty is to tell the history of the gay rights movement, the National Park Service (NPS) will place markers at significant locations that note the advancement of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans.
“Symbolically it’s hugely important that now LGBT history is officially part of the national narrative,” Eliza Byard, executive director of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, told the Associated Press. “This is part of what our federal government will identify, preserve and single out.”
The announcement by Interior Secretary Sally Jewell came at the Stonewall Inn in New York, long considered the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement. Members of the gay community rioted after a June 1969 police raid on the bar. The site was designated a national historic landmark 14 years ago.
One location already recognized on the federal government’s National Register of Historic Places is the former Washington D.C. home of Dr. Franklin E. Kameny, who became an early gay rights activist after he was fired from his job as an Army astronomer in 1957 for being homosexual. Fire Island’s Cherry Grove Community House & Theater, are also both on the National Register of Historic Places.
