New Flight 93 Rolling Stone Article-Mark Bingham 9/11 Hero Described as 'Proud, Gay &..REPUBLICAN!!'

Rolling Stone Magazine (Current Issue with Shakira on cover) ^ | April 11, 2002 Issue | Randall Sullivan and Various Fight 93 family members

[codebreaker]

Great in depth article, Tom Burnett's wife also says that before getting on the plane September her husband was having 'visions' of varoius sites in Washingtom including the White House.

Burnett, a devout Catholic took it as a sign from God that he would be called on to somehow serve his country in the nations capital.

[cactmh]

Oh my goodness. That is crazy!

[cactmh]

Of course there were fighter planes in the area...that doesn't mean it was shot down.

[Utopia]

He's Gay and a Republican? That'll torque a few people here.

[foreverfree]

In my view, Bingham is nothing but a convenient poster boy for the gay agenda -- and his heroism, if any, is cheapened as a result.

And Diane Whipple, sicked to death by a dog, is a poster girl for same.

Silence and tension filled a room at the city's largest gay community center, where onlookers leaned forward on the edge of their seats to hear the verdict on television. Whipple was a lesbian, and Knoller's lawyer charged during the trial that her client was prosecuted in large part because of pressure from the gay community.

Ruth Herring, development director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, lit a single candle and held it aloft before the verdict was read. After the fifth guilty verdict was announced, Herring placed the candle on top of the television set.

The candle was lit as a remembrance of Whipple's life, Herring said.

"Her death was a horror. No one can erase that," Herring said. "Sharon chose to make it mean something. This is very, very big for all of us."

San Francisco's gay community rallied around Whipple's surviving partner as she lobbied for changes in the law that would allow her to file a wrongful death suit and seek damages from the laywer couple and the owners of the apartment building where the attack occurred.

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[N. Theknow]

Second (and I may be wrong), I've never seen any evidence to demonstrate Bingham's alleged heroism other than gay men telling us "it's the sort of thing he'd do."

Absolutely correct.

I remember the article about this...person, and it wasn't that he actually did anything, it was that it he was "...a big strapping, gay, rugby player who ran with the bulls that would be the sort of person to try and overpower the hijackers."

What a pathetic excuse for writing an article.

[KC Burke]

There was a thread posted at the time shortly after 9/11 that recounted his "partner" walking out of a San Francisco City Hall recognition memorial when the Democrat office holders tried to turn it into a political rally. His political alignment was discussed at that time.

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I saw the White House several times during the last decade, and the sight of it gave me chills every time as well....

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Thirty cell phone calls? Heck, if we are to believe the flight attendants' pre-takeoff spiel, those telephone calls would have been enough to bring down the plane...

[codebreaker]

It is very likely those 4 saved the U.S. Capitol or the White House.

[NittanyLion]

If only you had your way, Bingham would have been in jail long before 9/11. Now it turns out he's a Republican...quite a shocker, huh?

[Joe Driscoll]

I remember the article about this...person, and it wasn't that he actually did anything,

Thomas Burnett phoned his wife from hijacked United Airlines Flight 93, and said he was going to die, but he wasn't going quietly. "There's three of us who are going to do something about it," he reportedly told Deena Burnett.

Leave the Hero alone.

Why don't you doubt Mr. Burnett's heroism too. After all, we don't have any actual evidence that he DID something.

Your hatred and stupidity are showing.

[AmericanInTokyo]

So indirectly, Billy Clinton's poor performance in shutting down alQaida from 1993 and his overall stripping of our homeland defenses, contributed to the death of a gay man. Hmmmmmmmm....

[TwoBear]

Can somebody post the article? I can't find it on their site.

Maybe it was one of those 30 cell phone calls that brought the plane down? Hmmmmmmm.....

[Logician]

I got a sick feeling that Flight 93 was shot down also and I have a sick feeling that is why the US Gov. will not release any information pertaining to the black box and other voice recorders. Even if the plane was ordered shot down, we had to do something to protect other American lives. But, for now anyways, this is only speculation.

[Khepera]

If only you had your way, Bingham would have been in jail long before 9/11. Now it turns out he's a Republican...quite a shocker, huh?

I'm sorry but I'm missing your point. Could you clarify?

[GSWarrior]

What is Rolling Stone?

[r9etb]

Your hatred and stupidity are showing.

Oh, please. I can't speak for my stupidity, but rest assured there's no hatred. I sincerely hope Mr. Bingham died heroically, and his past history apparently lends credence to the claim that he might have.

But that was not my point. What I object to is that he is, and from the beginning has been, acclaimed not as hero, but as a gay hero.

It would seem that to those making the claims of heorism, Bingham's choice of orifice is more important than anything he did on 9/11.

IOW, he's become nothing but a poster-boy.

[Britton J Wingfield]

Then I assume it would have been okay with you if he had wanted to marry his partner and adopt some kids, like any other American has the right to do.

Touche'.

[texlok]

It doesn't matter whether Whipple was a lesbian or not, she is dead. She died because people could not control their dogs. It could have just as easily have been somebody else (and apparently, on a few other occasions that the apartment owners chose to ignore, it almost was somebody else)

Same with Bingham. It doesn't matter if he's gay or not, he's dead, he helped prevent a tragedy from turning into an even bigger one. When they took the four biggest guys or whatever, nobody asked them if they were gay or not, at that point, they were trying to stay alive and/or keep from being rammed into who knows what.

Some people are obsessed with what others do in their bedrooms, kinda gives me the creeps.

[foreverfree]

Some people are obsessed with what others do in their bedrooms, kinda gives me the creeps.

I'm not obsessed, just concerned. If Bingham was a hero on that plane, I'm glad he was, but that does not change the apparent fact that he was leading an abhorrent lifestyle, apparently to his end in a Pennsylvania mountainside, right?

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