@ehBeth,
Quote:
David, do you understand that this is not a thread of accusation but of affirmation?
It is not a bad thing that Mr. Burr was gay.
It is, however, bad and sad that the state of America of that day
did not allow him to live his life more openly and comfortably.
Its a matter of everyone being deemed innocent until proven guilty,
and any straight man who has homosexuality attributed to him woud be aghast.
The Wikipedia article that Rex posted is
extremely weak evidence.
I understand that if a person is a homosexual of either sex
who
openly lives that way, it can be OK to refer to him as such;
however,
if the allegation is false, and he is straight,
then this can be a great offense against him
from which his reputation will never completely recover.
In some cases, he may be ruined.
Men who are straight are very offended, hurt and shocked
by false allegations of homosexuality; I am glad that no one
has ever accused
ME of that, tho I have been denounced
by
many other defamations (most recently: a moron and a nazi).
EhBeth, since u have addressed me,
let me say this:
I deem u to be a fine person and have never had anything against u,
but I read that u implied to someone that u had me on Ignore,
which is a very fine, good, and fully proper thing to do.
There is nothing rong with that, but when I saw that u implied
that u had me on Ignore, I thought that it woud be wise,
reciprocally, to put u on Ignore so that I woud not in the future
post to u, and u 'd never get the message.
However, on this thread, u were
quoted addressing me;
hence, by chance, indirectly, I received your message.
Accordingly, I have taken u
off Ignore again,
since it appears that u have done so to me.
I know not whether u have posted to me within the last few days
on other occasions, that I did not receive your message.
David
