Christian, I don't want to argue.

Feel free to close both this bug and the PR as "enhancement rejected". Adding one ./configure option is not really worth arguing over, I can always compile python as I need. I just tried to solve the same problem for others because other people also want a simple way to install a new version of Python on old distros and have a working ssl module. 

If my contribution is not welcome it's fine.

However, I have a feeling the reason for the rejection is not technical because after I stated I am happy to help solve the problem in other ways ("If you can think of a better real world solution than static linking OpenSSL please share and let's do it!") you literally twisted my words 180 degrees ("You are trying to solve a problem by dictating the solution at the same time."). This is very inappropriate.