The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn’t mean that God doesn’t love heterosexuals. It’s just that they need more supervision.
- Lynn Lavner

The Bleeding Hills - A Novel by Wilfried F. Voss

I would like to follow up on my entry “Robert Nairac – Hero, Butcher, Homosexual…?“:

The research on Captain Robert Nairac continues and I have found some more, interesting references. One is a blog, where I, among a mind-boggling large number of blubberings, found one entry referring to Robert Nairac as being gay. More interesting than the claim – which, in this specific case, was without any substance – was an alternative explanation of irrational behavior by British soldiers: “…watched a program a few months ago on the psychological stress of combat etc in the British army, and other issues such as mistreatment, bullying etc. Turns out of any regiment in the british army the SAS have the highest suicide rate according to the Psychiatrist in the program. He has raised this issue thru his MP with the UK MOD and they would not comment, classified information etc.”

The second reference is about a woman falsely claiming that Captain Robert Nairac fathered her son. This article openly addresses Nairac’s homosexuality, for instance, “…those who knew Nairac from his days working in south Armagh said the Grenadier Guards captain was known to be gay. “We all knew Nairac was a homo-sexual. He was having a relationship with a member of the Armed Forces in one of the camps,” said a former soldier last week.”

At this point I am satisfied with the view that my suspicion, that Nairac may have been gay and/or the victim of sexual abuse during childhood, is not without substance. I take the research for my novel seriously, and while I do have the liberty of “distorting the facts”, I wouldn’t want to include claims just based on a hunch.