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===Harvey Milk===

===Harvey Milk===

Jim Jones promoted [[gay rights]], which appealed to [[Harvey Milk]]. Milk praised the Temple in his column in the ''Bay Area Reporter''. Milk, a perennial candidate for office aggressively sought Jones’s political blessing. Milk wrote Jones during a campaign for supervisor. {{Quotebox|"Our paths have crossed. They will stay crossed. It is a fight that I will walk with you into . . . The first time I heard you, you made a statement: “Take one of us, and you must take all of us.” Please add my name.”}}

Jim Jones promoted [[gay rights]], which appealed to [[Harvey Milk]]. Jones preached that everyone was [[homosexual]].<ref>[https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=31908 Everybody is a homosexual"] by Michael Bellefountaine, Jonestown Alternative Considerations, San Diego State University.</ref> Milk praised the Temple in his column in the ''Bay Area Reporter''. Milk, a perennial candidate for office aggressively sought Jones’s political blessing. Milk wrote Jones during a campaign for supervisor: {{Quotebox|"Our paths have crossed. They will stay crossed. It is a fight that I will walk with you into . . . The first time I heard you, you made a statement: 'Take one of us, and you must take all of us.' Please add my name.”}}

Jones provided Milk's campaigns with “volunteers,” a printing press, and publicity through the Peoples Temple newspaper, the ''Peoples Forum'', with a readership of a half million.

Milk spoke at Peoples Temple and Jones provided Milk's campaigns with “volunteers,” a printing press, and publicity through the Peoples Temple newspaper, the ''Peoples Forum'', with a readership of a half million. Once elected with Jones help, Harvey Milk provided Jim Jones with legitimacy. He lobbied on Jones’s behalf to President [[Jimmy Carter]], Secretary of [[Department of Health and Human Services|Health, Education, and Welfare]] Joseph Califano, Guyanese Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, and other powerful figures.  

 

Harvey Milk provided legitimacy to Jim Jones. Milk spoke at Peoples Temple. He lobbied on Jones’s behalf to President [[Jimmy Carter]], Secretary of [[Department of Health and Human Services|Health, Education, and Welfare]] Joseph Califano, Guyanese Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, and other powerful figures.  

Milk wrote to President Carter defending Jones "as a man of the highest character," and stating that people wanting to leave the Temple were trying to "damage Rev. Jones' reputation" with "apparent bold-faced lies".<ref>Milk, Harvey [http://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown/milk.jpg ''Letter Addressed to President Jimmy Carter, Dated February 19, 1978''] {{Webarchive|url=https://www.webcitation.org/5vybbC0i4?url=http://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown/milk.jpg |date=January 24, 2011 }}</ref>  

Milk wrote to President Carter defending Jones "as a man of the highest character," and stating that people wanting to leave the Temple were trying to "damage Rev. Jones' reputation" with "apparent bold-faced lies".<ref>Milk, Harvey [http://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown/milk.jpg ''Letter Addressed to President Jimmy Carter, Dated February 19, 1978''] {{Webarchive|url=https://www.webcitation.org/5vybbC0i4?url=http://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown/milk.jpg |date=January 24, 2011 }}</ref>  

Jones preached that everyone was [[homosexual]].<ref>[https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=31908 Everybody is a homosexual"] by Michael Bellefountaine, Jonestown Alternative Considerations, San Diego State University.</ref> Milk wrote to Jim Jones "my name is cut into stone in support of you - and your people."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=24taDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT254&lpg=PT254&dq=%22my+name+is+cut+into+stone+in+support+of+you+-+and+your+people.%22&source=bl&ots=ynq76x7v9F&sig=ACfU3U1baSHsO8-hnZ5MVbDiNeBbUn9TbQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiz8vLNi6XgAhWG1IMKHfWVCZQQ6AEwB3oECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22my%20name%20is%20cut%20into%20stone%20in%20support%20of%20you%20-%20and%20your%20people.%22&f=false Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death], Lillian Faderman, Yale University Press, May 22, 2018, p.</ref> On the anniversary of his assassination, Milk was awarded the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] by [[President Barack Obama]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvKOv8HA76o President Obama Honors Harvey Milk With Presidential Medal of Freedom], youtube.</ref>

Milk wrote to Jones "my name is cut into stone in support of you - and your people."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=24taDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT254&lpg=PT254&dq=%22my+name+is+cut+into+stone+in+support+of+you+-+and+your+people.%22&source=bl&ots=ynq76x7v9F&sig=ACfU3U1baSHsO8-hnZ5MVbDiNeBbUn9TbQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiz8vLNi6XgAhWG1IMKHfWVCZQQ6AEwB3oECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22my%20name%20is%20cut%20into%20stone%20in%20support%20of%20you%20-%20and%20your%20people.%22&f=false Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death], Lillian Faderman, Yale University Press, May 22, 2018, p.</ref>On the anniversary of his assassination, Milk was awarded the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] by [[President Barack Obama]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvKOv8HA76o President Obama Honors Harvey Milk With Presidential Medal of Freedom], youtube.</ref>

===Willie Brown===

===Willie Brown===