[UnoriginalGuy]

He shouldn't be pardoned. To pardon him is to just try and sweep the whole business under the rug and to pretend like all the bad stuff that happened to him and others (who incidentally won't get the pardon) didn't occur.

I equate pardoning him to trying to pretend that the holocaust didn't occur. It is better in both cases to remember the mistakes so we won't repeat them in the future to others rather than putting our heads in the sand and pretending they never occurred at all.

I'm all for gay rights in 2012, that's why we shouldn't hide/bury our mistakes in 1954.