Fundamentalist Christian group American Family Association is demanding that its members and others not to accept any mail postmarked with the U.S. Postal Service’s newly released Harvey Milk stamp, the first U.S. stamp to feature an openly gay elected official.

“Honoring predator Harvey Milk on a U.S. postage stamp is disturbing to say the least. Harvey Milk was a very disreputable man and used his charm and power to prey on young boys with emotional problems and drug addiction,” an AFA press release said last week. “He is the last person we should be featuring on a stamp.”

The radical organization, labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2010, ranted that the Harvey Milk commemorative stamp was the result of “seven years of lobbying by a self-described drag queen (a biological man with implanted breasts) and former transsexual prostitute Nicole Murray Ramirez of San Diego.” 

In reality, Nicole Murray-Ramirez has been an LGBT activist for over 45 years and is currently a San Diego appointed city human rights commissioner. Murray-Ramirez has served the last five mayors of San Diego, and was elected as the chair of the first mayoral GLBT Advisory Board and the first GLBT Advisory Board to the chief of police.

The inflammatory press release suggested that citizens “refuse to accept the Harvey Milk stamp if offered by your local post office” and “instead, ask for a stamp of the United States flag. In addition, the release suggests that citizens “refuse to accept mail at your home or business if it is postmarked with the Harvey Milk stamp. Simply write ‘Return to Sender’ on the envelope and tell your postman you won’t accept it.”