[Ken522]

I recall studying the “Turing machine” in school - regardless, his conviction should stand ...

[miss marmelstein]

I believe that it wasn’t a homosexual liaison that wrecked Turing. It was allegations that he was molesting boys (in a library, I believe).

[golux]

Well, I have never believed in "Legalized Gay Marriage" because I can't for the life of me figure out how marriage is the government's business. Marriage is God's business, and a man and a woman's business, if you ask me.

There are some homosexuals who want to be "married," and I can't really figure out how it's my business to tell them they shouldn't, but as long as we live in a world in which it's my government's business to track, tax, and control everyone in every which way, I am forced to stand up against "Gay Marriage."

At the same time, Alan Turing has been one of my heroes for a VERY long time. I wouldn't be so happy in a world deprived of Turings, or Cole Porters, or even Truman Capotes, Eltons, or Freddie Mercurys for that matter. Like it or not, the world is filled with homosexuals. It is not my business, in my opinion, whether they were born that way, or whether they became that way.

I do know this. I do not, in my heart, believe it is our govenment's business to tell consenting adults what they should and should not do in the boudoir. Maybe that makes me less of a conservative, and maybe it makes me an irresponsible citizen, but it's just what I believe. And that means Turing should not have been convicted.

“Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.” ― Thomas Paine

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Conviction stands. Any shred of respect for Hawking completely gone now as well as for anyone else who tries to support that lifestyle. Superintelligence is not an excuse to sin. The basic premise supported by people like Hawking is man making himself god above the one and only God and having the right to decide his/her behavior independent of God’s commands.

[ClearCase_guy]

Some people want to condemn Christopher Columbus for the "genocide" of native Americans.
Some people want to exonerate Turing for his conviction on homosexual acts.

The past is the past. The people who want judge the past, or change the past, are the people who want to convince us all that up is down and down is up.

Let it be.

[CharlesWayneCT]

If his only crime was a private consensual sexual encounter with another man, why not pardon him. Such a relationship is legal now. I don’t have any idea what the actual charge was or how he was caught, so maybe there was a public aspect to it.

[DBeers]

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.

[ourworldawry]

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