Posted on 10/28/2004 6:07:00 AM PDT by Pokey78
If the loving heart of the Great Emancipator found its natural amorous passions overwhelmingly directed toward those of his own sex, it would certainly be a stunning rebuke to the Republican Party’s scapegoating of same-sex love for electoral purposes. And a forthcoming book by the late Dr. C.A. Tripp — The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, to be published in the new year by Free Press — makes a powerful case that Lincoln was a lover of men.
Tripp, who worked closely in the 1940s and 1950s with the groundbreaking sexologist Alfred Kinsey, was a clinical psychologist, university professor and author of the 1975 best-seller The Homosexual Matrix, which helped transcend outdated Freudian clichés and establish that a same-sex affectional and sexual orientation is a normal and natural occurrence.
In his book on Lincoln, Tripp draws on his years with Kinsey, who, he wrote, "confronted the problem of classifying mixed sex patterns by devising his 0-to-6 scale, which allows the ranking of any homosexual component in a person’s life from none to entirely homosexual. By this measure Lincoln qualifies as a classical 5 — predominantly homosexual, but incidentally heterosexual."
Tripp also found, based on multiple historical accounts, that Lincoln attained puberty unusually early, by the age of 9 or 10 — early sexualization being a prime Kinsey indicator for same-sex proclivities. Even Lincoln’s stepmother admitted in a post-assassination interview that young Abe "never took much interest in the girls." And Tripp buttresses his findings that Lincoln was a same-sex lover with important new historical contributions.
(Excerpt) Read more at laweekly.com ...
This is just SICK.
Ridiculous. This "doctor" has an obvious agenda.
I heard Arafat is sick and dying from aids...maybe you should ahve followed that story.
Does this piece of trash even consider the idea that the man believed in God's laws? Give me a break. This is yet another attempt by the homosexual/gay lobby to make them seem more normal.
Chrissy Matthews just peed on her pants.
LOLOLOL!
Wasn't Kinsey a child molester?
What next? George Washington was a transsexual?
Who has historical accounts of when someone reached puberty? Especially an unknown kid from Illinois? Give me a break.
And the next book by academia will reveal that Lincoln was really a Muslim. . .
Why do so many gays have to justify their sexual orientation by suggesting almost every notable figure is homosexual? This is getting old and ridiculous, not to mention insulting to a great man.
Gee, maybe John Wilkes Booth was a jilted lover???
(sarcasm)
Rewriting history again. People with a brain won't listen to this cr@p.
Well he did wear a wig...so he must have.
MODERATOR PLEASE KILL THIS BLOG!
Oh paleeeeeeeeeze.
For the past 20 years, "outing" dead historical figures has turned into a cottage industry for the extreme elements of the pro-gay community. They have "outed" Alexander, Peter the Great and dozens of others with virtually no evidence; just that they want others to believe they were "gay."
But, this is over the top, even for them.
"groundbreaking sexologist Alfred Kinsey" has been discredited and Dr C. A. Tripp is tainted. Just more BS.
This story has been around for at least 50 years or so. It's more interesting to see who actually cares.
Yeah sure. And Idi Amin is the righful king of Scotland...
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