Church (arguably) contributed as much or more to computer science, but is not idolised in the same way as Turing.
I'd say that Turing's accomplishments as a whole were somewhat more notable, though of course Church is also a giant of the field.
Yes. Turing, Church, Shannon, Kolmogorov, a whole section of thought, was started by these people. We forget that sometimes.
where by "yes", you mean "no". yes?
Aha, I did have problems parsing the comment. I mean Turing's sexuality was part of him, and the second world war saw him taking part in very important secret work, but neither of those things are the most important about his contribution in the long run.