Follow up: Alan Turing receives posthumous apology from the British government

Read Prime Minister Gordon Brown's rather nice apology in toto. Kudos for those who petitioned the government to do the right thing. If only things had been different, so that Turing would not have had to choose chemical castration over prison for the crime of being gay, only to end his life two years later. Brown recognises that a huge debt is owed Turing for his work during World War II and that he deserved far better than he got from his homeland. Fortunately that cloud of criminalising sexual orientation has lifted from Britain. Now if we could get rid of prejudice against gays around the world, I'd feel a lot better. No one should suffer just because they love their own sex rather than the other.