this is how deplorable this whole story is.
consider this board, for theater enthusiasts. a few pages back, someone posted about the film version of breaking the code, the play about alan turing. there were maybe three replies.
the average american citizen probably has no idea who he was. for those who don't know, he was a mathematician in the 40s. his work was critical in allowing the allies to break nazi codes. some historians believe that he contributed as much as, if not more than, churchill to the fall of fascism. but his contributions did not stop there. all computer engineers agree he was the father of modern computers. without him, there would not even be a BWW.
unfortunately, turing was gay at a time when it was illegal in the UK. for his great service to the world, he should have been knighted. he should have been allowed to walk the lecture circuit of ivy league schools and teach the next generation of mathematicians. unfortunately, that he put his dick in another consenting male was deemed more important than contributing to the defeat of hitler.
first he was castrated chemically with estrogen. this in effect, gave him breasts. when this humiliation failed to "change him," he was offered jail time. instead, he laced an apple with cyanide and ate it. over 50 years after his death, a computer engineer read the story and was suitably horrified. it was only by internet petition that the UK government was forced to apologize for this appalling behavior. due to a technicality, turing has not even been given a pardon for the crime of indecency!
this awful crime against humanity happened nearly 60 years ago now. and we still have people in western civilization, who are still doing it! who still think, we can change it! the story by itself should make the stomach of any right thinking person churn with disgust. but the really disgusting thing is to wonder about all the british citizens who never got an apology. who rotted in jail or were given breasts, and whose names have been erased from history. now think about all the americans whose lives have been ruined like this, lied to, their contributions negated and destroyed. remember, the average american citizen doesn't even know who bayard rustin is--the black man who was responsible for organizing the march on washington. he was gay (and an atheist), and obviously a homo could never make any meaningful contribution to society, his name too has been erased from history.
modern american people like dash and hart who sympathize with the republicans but are friendly with gays want to pretend that such deplorable things would never be supported here. all evidence is to the contrary. anti-sodomy laws were overturned by the supreme court only in 2003. not even a decade ago. remember the circumstances which brought the case, lawrence vs tx, to light: police were called to a disturbance. they found lawrence having congress with another man. under tx law, both men were arrested, jailed, fined, and all around humiliated. who made the original phone call? a jealous male ex-lover.
the republicans were serious about bachmann, perry, and santorum as candidates. they were not just joking when they supported legislation that says that you can be fired for your sexual preference. they really meant it. and the most disgusting incident of all happened on national tv. a soldier, who happened to be gay, was booed by puerile idiots in the crowd. not one of the cowards on stage who presumed to lead this country said anything. who is to say, that if instead of boos, rocks were thrown, that they would have acted differently or stepped up to the plate? there's no evidence for that at all.
anyone who thinks LGBT are supporting obama just because of gay marriage doesn't know anything at all. on many levels, most probably know that it is inching forward... but that's a helluvalot better than falling backwards.
Updated On: 11/8/12 at 10:49 PM
