Posted on 04/15/2015 1:43:09 PM PDT by C19fan
Abraham Lincoln and George Washington were gay, says a new book by a gay activist and award winning writer. Larry Kramer, 79, says he believes what's written in his history book is true though he is selling it as fiction to avoid legal troubles. In Volume One of his two part book 'The American People,' Kramer says that Abraham Lincoln was gay and his killer John Wilkes Booth was actually Lincoln's spurned gay lover. 'We know that Abraham Lincoln was gay,' Kramer told CBS in an interview about the book which came out this month.
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He was a self hating homosexual then
Lol
My wife is dealing with the recent revelations about Barry Manilow. He “came out” last week. She has been a huge fan for over 40 years.
She is not very happy and feels betrayed. She and probably millions of other women thought that he was singing his songs to them: the ladies. As my wife puts it - HE WAS SINGING TO A DUDE!!!
She has talked about removing all BM songs from our library. She is seriously angry and hurt.
And no, she is not a so called homophobe. One of my son’s friends has “two mommies” and she is talking with them all of the time.
Aids dementia is ugly
I’ve seen it up close
Wicked
That is what they’d have you think. But the percentage is very small. Three percent?
People have been talking about Lincoln before, but this is the first I have heard allegations about Washington and Hamilton. Sort of like the, “Everyone is Black”, stories. The only authentic “Black” they can convince me of is the Russian poet Pushkin, whose grandfather was Ethiopian. Otherwise that stuff is a bunch of bull too.
So? From age 12 until 17 I took showers every school day with a bunch of guys.
We called it gym class.
Oh please!
This is pathetic.
Of course, every !#$@# thinks every person in history was really gay.
Things that make you go, "Hmm".
Tried and dismissed from service for attempting to commit sodomy on a soldier, not executed, though by the law of the day, execution was a possible punishment.
There were rumors about Baron von Steuben circulating and why he had to leave Prussia.
Also, the language men could use in letters to each other back then could be so flowery that later generations might make assumptions that just weren't true.
Such was the case with Alexander Hamilton and John Laurens.
Lincoln sleeping in the same bed with another man does not make him gay.
Many men have slept in the same bed with another man — when traveling together to save money or in the military. It didn’t make them gay either.
I recently read a book about the Wars of the Roses; there were copious quotes from contemporaneous correspondence. It was commonplace for gentlemen to sign letters to one another, “Your Lover.”
I think "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" was much better.
I only saw bits of the movie when the teens were watching it. The book was dark.
“Actually, it’s a pretty open secret that Lincoln slept in the same bed with other men. Look it up.”
So did everyone else at that time, not gay. Look it up.
Sodomy. The word "homosexuality" didn't enter the languate until a century later. And while Kramer's definitely gay, at 80 years old, he's no boy any more.
It’s not widely known, but every famous person, except Adolf Hitler, Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy, were gay.
I believe they said Michelangelo was gay also. Tomorrow they will say Obama is gay.
On Mar. 10, 1778, at Valley Forge, Gen. George Washington approved the dismissal from service of Lt. Frederick Gotthold Enslin for “attempting to commit sodomy” with another soldier.
In the first president’s papers at the Library of Congress is a series of orders with the title, “Head Quarters, V. Forge, Saturday, March 14, 1778.” It includes the following entry,
“At a General Court Martial whereof Colo. Tupper was President (10th March 1778) Lieutt. [Frederick Gotthold] Enslin of Colo. Malcom's Regiment tried for attempting to commit sodomy, with John Monhort a soldier; Secondly, For Perjury in swearing to false Accounts, found guilty of the charges exhibited against him, being breaches of 5th. Article 18th. Section of the Articles of War and do sentence him to be dismiss'd the service with Infamy.“His Excellency the Commander in Chief [George Washington] approves the sentence and with Abhorrence and Detestation of such Infamous Crimes orders Lieutt. Enslin to be drummed out of Camp tomorrow morning by all the Drummers and Fifers in the Army never to return; The Drummers and Fifers to attend on the Grand Parade at Guard mounting for that Purpose.” [italics mine]
Enslin’s dismissal came less than two weeks after another soldier, Ensign Anthony Maxwell, was acquitted of the charge of “propagating a scandalous report prejudicial to the character of Lieutt. Enslin” on Feb. 27, 1778, according to the transcription of the court martial dated Mar. 3, 1778.
The document reads: “At a Brigade Court Martial whereof Colo. Burr was President (Feby. 27th. 1778,) Ensign Maxwell20 of Colo. Malcom's Regiment tried for propagating a scandalous report prejudicial to the character of Lieutt. Enslin.21 The Court after maturely deliberating upon the Evidence produced could not find that Ensign Maxwell had published any report prejudicial to the Character of Lieutt. Enslin further than the strict line of his duty required and do therefore acquit him of the Charge.”
“His Excellency the Commander in Chief approves the aforegoing sentences and orders Ensign Maxwell to be discharged from his Arrest …” the [Library of Congress] transcription states.
"Yeah, [liberal whine] why didn't they just get electric blankets?"
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