Stephen Hawking pushes for posthumous pardon for Alan Turing

I believe this issue needs to be dropped. Turing is beginning to be remembered only as a gay man wrongfully punished. His actual accomplishments are taking a back seat, what he did is becoming less important than who he did.

I'm a homosexual, and Mr. Turing is one of my heroes. The conviction should stand, not as a shame for Mr. Turing but for those who convicted him.

After we posthumously pardon Alan Turing, we should posthumously give Ada Lovelace the right to vote.

A pardon implies that there was, in fact, some kind of a crime.<p>What we should be pushing for is a redaction, and an acknowledgement that the prosecutors were ignorant morons who harassed and extinguished a great mind because they didn't know any better.

What would a pardon do that the formal apology not already has done? Posthumous pardons rarely have any point.

Nobody is "gay".<p>(For the record: "gay" means joyful, basically.)<p>But nobody <i>is</i> this by Nature. We all are sometimes happy, sometimes tired. This is the normal way of life.<p>We all are <i>persons</i> (by definition), and sexual behaviour can change in someone's life (we have hundreds of thousands of examples of that).<p>So, what does "gay" even mean? An excuse to allow a lobby to abuse the rest of us?