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Enigma hero Alan Turing “should be pardoned for historic gay conviction”, says Stephen Hawking
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 10:51 EST, 14 December 2012 | Sean O’Hare

Posted on 12/15/2012 3:23:08 AM PST by Olog-hai

A man credited with saving thousands of lives during World War Two should be posthumously pardoned for his historic conviction, Professor Stephen Hawking has said.

Codebreaker Alan Turing was convicted of gross indecency in 1952 following his relationship with another man, and killed himself two years later.

Hawking is among a group of scientists who have written to the Daily Telegraph asking for the conviction to be overturned for Turing, who is considered to be the father of the modern computer and key in cracking the enigma code. …

The letter comes after Lord Sharkey, a Liberal Democrat peer and one of the signatories, introduced a private member’s bill in the Lords to grant Turing an official pardon in July. Gordon Brown issued a posthumous apology to Turing in 2009, describing his treatment as “appalling”, but stopped short of granting an official pardon. …

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: alanturing; enigma; enigmacode; homosexualagenda; hutsix; stephenhawking
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To: Olog-hai
Society recognizes his contribution to the war effort already.

His choice to engage in homosexual sex did not contribute to his mathematics genius and is nothing to be rewarded for...

With this, Hawking the intellectual adulterer and morally devoid scientist of blasphemy is but another useful idiot working for the homosexual sex is normal promoters.

21 posted on 12/17/2012 11:29:20 PM PST by DBeers (†)
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To: Hardraade
Your ravings have nothing to do with conservative family values. Hawking has a three-digit IQ, yours is probably well down in the two-digits. Sorry.

Intelligence does not make a moral man. Hawking's morality quotient is on par with that of the morality of a homosexual penguin that voted for the kenyan marxixt.

22 posted on 12/17/2012 11:34:28 PM PST by DBeers (†)
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To: Olog-hai

Who? Stephen Hawking? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH....hahahahahahah....snort.....ohhhhhhhhhh, Lord help US!


23 posted on 12/18/2012 10:33:17 PM PST by ourworldawry
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