Last week we reported that the U.S. Navy is naming a new oil tanker after slain LGBT rights leader Harvey Milk. But the news hasn't been met with universal support.

Not surprisingly, the Family Research Council has attacked the decision by Navy Secretary Ray Mabius to honor Milk, who served in the Navy during the Korean War.

"Although [Milk] served briefly in the Navy, nothing he did merits the kind of tribute [the Navy] is giving him,” FRC honcho Tony Perkins argues. "The Navy seems intent on following in the administration’s ridiculous footsteps and bestowing a great honor on someone primarily on the basis of his sex life. A life marred by promotion of illegal drug use, sexual exploits, and lies doesn’t deserve one of the greatest military distinctions ― especially not with so many genuine heroes to choose from."

Others are upset at the honor, not because they don't appreciate Milk's accomplishments, but because they don't think he'd want to be associated with the military.

Cleve Jones, who was an intern of Milk's as a young man, and went on to become a leading LGBT activist in his own right says he has "mixed feelings" about the news.

"It is obviously an indication that gay people are more accepted than they were when he lived," Jones told the San Francisco Chronicle. "And I think he would be glad of that. But he did not like war."

Activist Tommi Avicolli Mecca is equally ambivalent.

“It’s a really tough one,” he said. “I certainly understand where people would feel pride in this. But I just feel uneasy—It makes me very uncomfortable that Harvey’s name is on anything connected to the military."

But Milk's nephew Stuart Milk, who was instrumental in getting a postage stamp honoring his uncle, says this new honor is truly fitting.

"We have just reached the point recently where LGBT people can serve openly in the military, and what better message can there be of that than this ship?" he explained. "It's a very fitting tribute to a man whose primary goal was for people to be authentic and not have to wear a mask."

Milk is just one of several civil-rights leaders being afforded the honor: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, women’s right activist Lucy Stone and abolitionist Sojourner Truth, will also have ships named after them.

Mabus previously named ships after Medgar Evers and Cesar Chavez.