If You Like Him So Much Why Don't You Marry Him

Sean Penn must really "like" Harvey Milk because he is trying to make Milk's birthday a California state holiday.

Now yes, I know the title of this post is mean and that Milk was a good man and his assassination a tragedy and a loss, but just because Sean Penn pretended to be the man in a movie doesn't mean Harvey Milk deserves a state day of recognition - a day in the city of San Francisco absolutely. In all candor, Harvey Milk may have been the first openly gay elected official in California but he was only ever a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

I am exhausted and nauseated by these celebrities suddenly picking up causes because they played a character or got the disease or whatever. Why not simply help others who were already fighting the fight you suddenly got interested in? Instead of creating a competing foundation, why not just help the ones that exist?

It is ego, pure and simple.

The worst of it is in Penn's case that he is an extreme leftwing liberal who's very association now makes it hard for any moderates who would like to honor Milk to get on Penn's bandwagon. I suspect for many Sean Penn's "brand" is toxic.