The Next Time a Right-Wing Pat Buchanan Wannabe Talks about Gays in the Military...

CorpGovActivist

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The Next Time a Right-Wing Pat Buchanan Wannabe Talks about Gays in the Military...

Edited on Sun Dec-02-07 07:20 PM by CorpGovActivist

... please tell them to look up Alan Turing, the widely-acknowledged father of modern code-making and code-breaking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_turing

http://www.google.com/search?complete=1&hl=en&q=alan+turing+gay

These right-wingers owe a great deal to LGBT men and women who - like Turing - weren't quite "patriotic enough" to escape the reactionary backlash after WW II.

- Dave

P.S. http://visiblevote08.logoonline.com/2007/08/10/video-hillary-clinton-rewind/">Of LGBT equality, who said: "But this has not been a long-term struggle yet." -- 2007

P.P.S. http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/02-102.pdf">Which Supreme Court justices used the "no history" argument during oral arguments in the Lawrence v. Texas case, in 2003? The Democratic candidate in the P.S. sounds like a Scalia law clerk, fresh out of Yale Law. I was present that day on the front left bench behind the bar.

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Liberal_in_LA

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Sun Dec-02-07 08:04 PM
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1. Bump

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CorpGovActivist

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Sun Dec-02-07 10:19 PM
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2. Franklin Kameny and the NSA

Edited on Sun Dec-02-07 10:23 PM by CorpGovActivist

Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092901249.html">Gay Rights Pioneer Franklin Kameny's Legacy Is Worth Preserving

Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0611/kameny.html">Library Acquires Papers of Gay-Rights Pioneer

Other links about how http://www.google.com/search?complete=1&hl=en&q=frank+kameny+%22national+security+agency%22">he forced the NSA and other Intelligence Community agencies to drop the no-gays-allowed-to-have-security-clearance policies.

He more than met Pat Buchanan's specious standard.

- Dave

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Mon Dec-03-07 12:53 AM
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3. Copyright rules permit a few paragraphs from each article.

Might interest people to persue the issue if there was any compelling information posted.

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Mon Dec-03-07 10:25 AM
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5. Turing Paragraphs...

During the Second World War Turing worked at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre, and was for a time head of Hut 8, the section responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. He devised a number of techniques for breaking German ciphers, including the method of the bombe, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine.

In 1952, Turing was convicted of "acts of gross indecency" after admitting to a sexual relationship with a man in Manchester. He was placed on probation and required to undergo estrogen therapy to achieve temporary chemical castration.<1> Turing died after eating an apple laced with cyanide in 1954. His death was ruled a suicide.

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Mon Dec-03-07 01:53 AM
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4. K/R

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CorpGovActivist

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Mon Dec-03-07 11:28 AM
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6. Bayard Rustin

Edited on Mon Dec-03-07 11:29 AM by CorpGovActivist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin

Now there's a quiet riot who bested all of Buchanan's best efforts, back when Buchanan actually had influence and power.

- Dave

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Mon Dec-03-07 12:54 PM
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7. Soldier of the Year: Jose Zuniga

"A staunch Republican and patriot who loved the Army, Sergeant Zuniga was a military journalist who served in the Gulf War and was honored as the Sixth Army's 1993 Soldier of the Year. A gay man whose wife was a lesbian, he had been hiding his sexual orientation behind the 'happily married' facade."

http://www.amazon.com/Soldier-Year-Story-American-Patriot/dp/0671888145

- Dave

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Mon Dec-03-07 04:14 PM
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8. Tammy Baldwin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Baldwin

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