“... donating about $600 million to causes that included environmental conservation, the American Civil Liberties Union and Roman Catholic education (though he was an openly gay atheist), died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 87.”
Well, well. I was not expecting that wrinkle, having not clicked through to the story. Not exactly our kind of conservative, perhaps one of the Log Cabin Republicans I’ve heard about? Likely a GOPe.
I knew he was an atheist, but didn’t know he was homosexual, much less openly. That may have come later in life, together with his philanthropy, as he was married for some 30-35 years to the same woman. I suppose that’s just what homosexual men of his generation did.