[r9etb]

This Bingham thing bugs me for a couple of reasons:

First, the primary description of Mark Bingham is "gay," as if that's the important thing.

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."

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.

[BikerNYC]

I don't think we've seen specific evidence that any particular person on that plane was a hero. I suppose it was a group effort (if it happened the way we have been told it happened) and the specific role of anyone in particular will never be known by us.

[codebreaker]

I agree that some poster boy- ism is going on but the guy had a history (according to the article) of running down muggers with guns, and beating up a gang of asians who were harassing someone at a restaurant...taking chances to save others

It doesn't suprise me he was a Log Cabin Republican.

[Thud]

The spectator who saved President Ford from one of two assassination attempts was a gay ex-Marine. That and Bingham prove nothing beyond the fact that people are people. Some here find it difficult to accept this.

[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.

foreverfree

[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.

[Richard Kimball]

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."

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.

Bingo!!!! You nailed it and phrased it perfectly.