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Was Lincoln Gay?
History News Network ^ | 6-10-01 | By W. Scott Thompson

Posted on 11/20/2004 9:46:35 PM PST by Ma3lst0rm

Was Lincoln Gay? By W. Scott Thompson Mr. Thompson is a professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

What drives our great to greatness? We search, and find hope and humanity, unassuageably-remembered hunger, driving fear; but sometimes the mystery goes deeper to presiding emotions unmistakable in their power but strangely indeterminate in their form. In the present case Abe Lincoln passed from death into a demigod of national might and righteousness, and now makes him the canonic hero of liveliest sympathy and spiritual growth. And neither depiction--better still a union of the two--rings false. We examine the powerful and never inaccessible information that makes startlingly clear a great suffering; we see this in turn become the source of power which moves this parched great spirit into worldly greatness while maintaining his humanity; and are forced to conclude that he could never come to personally satisfying terms with the active homosexuality which he sacrificed to prudence and ambition on the threshold of his career. But where he faltered and brought grief to others beside himself in his private life he gloriously overcame in his public life. And this is news still without dignity, unwelcome to most sectors of our society.....

(Excerpt) Read more at hnn.us ...


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The film Alexander the Great has brought up again the allegations that he was bisexual or gay. This article presents the reasoning gay activists use for outing dead people. The saddest thing is that into every close relationship between men they automatically read "sex" as if men who are close and enjoy talking to each other, and fighting alongside each other must automatically be drawn to each other sexually. How horribly myopic a view this is, how many times I've spent hours talking with a good male friends and never did sex cross my mind, it seems that by this standard weekend fishing trips and football banter and bad marriages suddenly become an indication that one might be gay. It seems psychosis begets psychosis and as their politics which is indistinguishable from their sex lives with their hyper sexualized views and need for justification spreads like a disease coloring everything gay.
1 posted on 11/20/2004 9:46:35 PM PST by Ma3lst0rm
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To: Ma3lst0rm

Good Lord....not THIS crap again...


2 posted on 11/20/2004 9:47:53 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny (“I know a great deal about the Middle East because I’ve been raising Arabian horses" Patrick Swazey)
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To: Ma3lst0rm

Must've been a log cabin Republican.


3 posted on 11/20/2004 9:49:15 PM PST by beavus
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To: Ma3lst0rm

I heard he was a Malungian.


4 posted on 11/20/2004 9:49:18 PM PST by Perdogg (W stands for Winner)
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To: beavus

Clever. Were they built with lincoln logs?


5 posted on 11/20/2004 9:49:47 PM PST by Perdogg (W stands for Winner)
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To: beavus

ok beavus I really shouldn't be laughing at that but I can't help it


6 posted on 11/20/2004 9:50:02 PM PST by Mount Athos
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To: Ma3lst0rm
Was Lincoln Gay?

Lincoln who?

Seriously, isn't it true that EVERY historical person of the slightest importance was gay?

7 posted on 11/20/2004 9:50:57 PM PST by stevem
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To: Ma3lst0rm

Men like to spend time with other men, and ditto for women. It is crazy to try to tun this into homosexuality, because at bottom homosexuality is just another name for sodomy.


8 posted on 11/20/2004 9:51:26 PM PST by RobbyS (JMJ)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

The answer here is no. But that Millard Filmore guy...he was definitely a flaming gay. Oh, and that Andrew Jackson character...he was a alcoholic. And that McKinely fellow...he was a definite exhibitionist.


9 posted on 11/20/2004 9:52:20 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: Ma3lst0rm
That would be a ... NO.


Lincoln was " Awesome " ... not simply " GREAT "



10 posted on 11/20/2004 9:53:21 PM PST by the_gospel_of_thomas (Know your Enemy and Know yourself)
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To: Ma3lst0rm

11 posted on 11/20/2004 9:53:24 PM PST by Sunshine55 (I love you more today than yesterday...yesterday you REALLY pissed me off.)
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To: stevem
Seriously, isn't it true that EVERY historical person of the slightest importance was gay?

Yes, they were, unless you can prove otherwise (the gay agendists never have to prove anything).

Oh, and Catherine the Great sure loved her horse.
12 posted on 11/20/2004 9:53:33 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Ma3lst0rm

You really hit the nail on the head with your commentary--SO well said. I thank you for sharing your insight.


13 posted on 11/20/2004 9:53:47 PM PST by Miss Behave (Beloved daughter of Miss Creant, and proud mother of Miss Hap.)
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To: pepsionice

I thought that was James Buchanan...


14 posted on 11/20/2004 9:54:38 PM PST by MikeD (Out in the barnyard, the cook is chopping lumber...)
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To: stevem
Seriously, isn't it true that EVERY historical person of the slightest importance was gay?

They become gay, once they are dead and it's been long enough no one is able to fight the allegation.

Typical of the activist mentality, anyone is fair game if they can be used to advance your cause.

15 posted on 11/20/2004 9:56:48 PM PST by atomicpossum (I am the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.)
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To: MikeD

One thing the muslims have right is their treatment of gays and gay proselytizers.


16 posted on 11/20/2004 9:57:50 PM PST by ReadyNow (John Kerry: Empty Suit)
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To: Ma3lst0rm
I'm sure that Lincoln was often Gay...

However, I'm also sure that he wasn't a homosexual sodomite fudge-packer also...
17 posted on 11/20/2004 9:58:04 PM PST by politicket
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To: Ma3lst0rm

Wasn't there a report recently about a farmer whose pig was gay? The Left won't stop until every figure in history has been "determined" to have been gay, and that God himself is found to be gay.


18 posted on 11/20/2004 9:59:39 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Time to let slip the dogs...)
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To: Ma3lst0rm

This is crapaganda of the highest order.


19 posted on 11/20/2004 10:00:09 PM PST by rdl6989 (4 More Years! 4 More Years!)
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To: Ma3lst0rm

OK, now I have officially seen EVERYTHING. My head hurts. I am going to bed.


20 posted on 11/20/2004 10:00:44 PM PST by admiralsn (If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans. (Or vote democrat.))
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