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psychologist, university professor and author of the 1975 best-seller The Homosexual Matrix, which helped transcend outdated Freudian clichés and establish that a same-sex affectional and sexual orientation is a normal and natural occurrence.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 ...
While convincing by today's standards, it is probably impossible to nail down exactly where Alexander was on any contemporary standard.
Greek and Macedonian (and most Mediterranean) men of the day, of all proclivities, often had sexual relations with boys and men but may not be considered "gay" today. Most people were, more or less, pansexual and would have sex with anyone who was breathing, regardless of age or gender.
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Even putting guests who were total strangers in the same bed for the night was common. In colonial times, the practice was called "bundling." IIRC, even guests of the wealthy George Washington at Mt. Vernon were "bundled" in the winter.
There's your first clue that this book has no validity. Alfred Kinsey was a phony.
Just in case anyone wondered just how low the gay/lesbian movement would go to promote their cause...
Pure, undiluted bovine excrement!
It's amazing to me how a "doctor" can make such a detailed and accurate diagnosis of a man's sexual orientation when he's been DEAD for 139 years! One could ask this "doctor" if they ever see patients in their office, in the flesh? If so, why? You can obviously do your work with no patient present, so why not do that for all of them? It would save your patients a lot of time and effort if you could just diagnose and treat them while they go about their lives.
What a crock! ...and a sickening one at that.
Certain history teachers in Massachusetts are going to love this.
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Yes. On children as young as 3 months old I think. He advocated mothers masturbate their crying infants to lull them to sleep. It's in one of his books. I, unfortunately, had to read it cover to cover when I found out that the Seattle School District's sex ed curricula was based in large part on Kinsey's "research".
Especially those we conservatives hold in high regard.
redrock
" IIRC, Dr. DiLorenzo raised the question in The Real Lincoln, but dismissed it as modern people misinterpreting customs and habits from another era."
That may be correct. But having been one of the few on this thread who actually READ the referenced article for my own curiosity, I must say that it is very odd that Lincoln would want to have a male companion to sleep in his bed with him when his wife was away.
Yea! And you know that "rail-spliter" stuff? Never happened. Log cabin? Nope. Born in a big house. Mother was an early feminist. This was all covered up. (/sarcasm)
The vile gay maggots who push the Gay agenda have no problem of rewriting history to push their agenda.
"In reality, the "gay" Lincoln myth is rooted in the bizarre writings of one Charles Shively, a pro-pedophile academic. His book Drum Beats: Walt Whitman's Civil War Boy Lovers, asserts, for example, that because Lincoln and Speed shared a bed when they rented a room together in their youth, it meant they were homosexuals. Lincoln scholars ridiculed that assertion as nonsense, saying, as one put it, "In those days, bed space was at a premium, so this was very common."20 Michael Burlingame, a leading Lincoln scholar, said, "there is simply no evidence" to support Shively's theory, which, sadly, has since been given a wider audience on the Internet.21"
/sarcasm
Morning Dave!
Make no mistake, homosexual activists are domestic terrorists of the worst kind. The damage being done to children in many of our public schools is sickening.
Yeah, why haven't they homo-ized ol George yet?<P.ff
you could have pictures of lincoln doing indecent acts, and most republicans still wouldn't believe it... on that count, they are a lot like liberal dems about any matter of truth.
Was any Famous American who is dead not gay?
Well, that would cinch it.
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