Cosby Sentence

[Rev. Rye]

Didn't you just see a bunch of us condemn Milk? You attributed Rye's position to all atheists. That was shown to be false, conclusively.

And Even then, I took what I could find in the way of evidence for your proposition, weighed the two together, and while Milk’s not entirely morally in the clear, I’m not quite seeing the predatory behavior you claim in Milk’s case. The only other case I could find was him responding to a Minnesota teenager and telling him to move to San Francisco (when he was a famous member of the board of supervisors) and telling him to not tell his parents he was moving to a big city. The detail of “don’t tell the parents” is certainly questionable, but it’s not a silver bullet pointing to nefarious purposes.

If you can find more conclusive evidence pointing to more unambiguously predatory behavior, show me, and, if it checks out, I’ll gladly revise my view of Harvey Milk. So far, I’m getting “far from perfect, with some eyebrow-raising incidents, but not quite worthy of condemnation.”

So far, file this under “important if true.”