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Monument to Homosexuals Is OK; Monument to Ten Commandments Isn't

Here's an ironical juxtaposition that hardly anyone is reporting. Even as Alabama gives a monument to the Ten Commandments the boot, California is showing off an exclusionary and divisive new monument to homosexual and "transgender" war veterans.

Homosexual activists are celebrating Tuesday's unveiling of a foot-long marker "In Honor of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Veterans Killed in Action" at Capitol Park in Sacramento, the first of its kind in the nation.

"The memorial was installed without proper approvals from state agencies, and officials spent much of the day Tuesday pointing fingers of blame about what went wrong," the Sacramento Bee reported today.

Maurice Johannessen, state secretary of veterans affairs, said he did not approved the project, which activists apparently installed without permission, a spokesman said.

The Department of General Services and the Legislature's Joint Rules Committee, which help oversee the park, denied receiving or approving any request for the monument.

The office of embattled Gov. Gray Davis said Johannessen had approved the memorial but should have had General Services review it too.

Support From Gray Davis

Davis supports the monument, underling Russell Lopez told the Bee.

"The fact that these veterans who sacrificed their lives are members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community in no way lessens the fact that they are heroes and fought for their country," Lopez said.

So how many war heroes hail from the "transgender community"? That remains a mystery.

By the way, homosexual activists who attended the unveiling Tuesday raised the flag - not the Stars and Stripes, but a rainbow flag representing "gay pride."

Participants included homosexual Assembly Democrats Christine Kehoe of San Diego, Jackie Goldberg of Los Angeles, Mark Leno of San Francisco and John Laird of Santa Cruz. Goldberg remains notorious as one of the leftist Democrats caught last month plotting to worsen California's budget crisis.

Opponents called the marker "offensive and disgraceful, saying soldiers should not be honored based on sexual orientation," the Bee reported.

"To single out such a group because of their sexual proclivities is inappropriate," said Bill Manes, a spokesman for California State Commanders Veterans Council, consisting of 20 statewide veterans organizations.

Curiously, California does not have a monument to heterosexual veterans. So much for "diversity," that chief god of the politically correct.