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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Vermin walking on a great woman's grave.

Forgive me if I’m blunt but what is happening with Dr Sally Ride after her death is disgusting.

Until the day after she died I had no idea of her sexual orientation. OK, she is gay and has been in a relationship with another woman for 27 years. Now many in the blogosphere/Twitterverse are trying to make that the issue of the day.

This is a woman of multiple accomplishments throughout her life. A doctorate in physics, professor at a university, was a member of both shuttle loss panels and ran her own business to encourage young women to go into science. Oh, BTY, she was the first American woman in space.

But starting with a Twitter comment by Andrew Sullivan the world knows something she decided to keep confidential for three decades. Gee, where are the privacy advocates on this? Not to mention Sullivan seems to want to use her death to push for expanded benefits for gay parters.

Yo Andy, Dr Ride wanted (for whatever reason) to keep her orientation private and you’re using her death to push your political objective. Excuse me if I call you a leech. So please, STFU and go away and let her parter and family bury her while celebrating her life and accomplishments. You are quite capable of making an ass of yourself on other matters.

RIP Dr Ride...hopefully these morons go away.

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