Knowing that somebody is gay could also change how they might be received by an entire community, such as a church community that cares about child-rearing. A c

Knowing that somebody is gay could also change how they might be received by an entire community, such as a church community that cares about child-rearing. A church might simply feel that a homosexual is not sexually safe around children, and it's not really an outsider's place to tell how people should run their own church. But why should Peter Thiel absorb these blows for nothing? And his response? To fund somebody in a civil claim, because Gawker was depending on the fact that people are too weak to sue them. Gawker gambled wrong. The sad part isn't that Peter Thiel could choose which horse to back -- the sad part is that you need a financial backer to get justice.