Now I am indeed confused. You think our government, under President Reagan, placed a lesbian in a position to be idolized by our daughters by sending her in to space? You really, really believe that? Or could it be that, at the time, no one had a clue? I had no idea she was a lesbian until I read what you posted, and I was alive in 1983.
It's worse. If you look at the timeline, the government turned her lesbian by sending her into space.
She was married to a man at the time, and divorced him in 1987 according to a thread I just posted.