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psychologist, university professor and author of the 1975 best-seller The Homosexual Matrix, which helped transcend outdated Freudian clichés and establish that a same-sex affectional and sexual orientation is a normal and natural occurrence.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 ...
"I cannot stand people that always try to rewrite history like this just to suit their own political agenda."
Try, to suit their personal agenda. Normalize perversions, next stop pedophilia, then beastiality and the rest is up for grabs ie., when sick worlds collide.
Why is a law professor an athority on homosexuality?
No doubt cuz the law professor is a closet queen (?)
Well, he wore a wig and ruffles.
Actually, General Washington didn't wear a wig. He would powder his hair white for formal occasions sometimes, but the custom of wearing wigs in the colonies was out of style by the time G.W. was a young man. Nitpickery, I know, but done in the spirit of historical accuracy and the pursuit of trivial knowledge that will fill your brain so you'll forget your own address and phone number! ;>)
It seems that bushpilot is no longer around to defend his position.
I stand corrected - this Tripp sumb*tch WAS crazy.
Yep, that's been established by the author himself.
It seems that bushpilot is no longer around to defend his position.
bushpilot - what is that, some inside joke, code for lesbian. @@
"What next? George Washington was a transsexual?"
---He did wear a wig LOL
Now, now, now, let us not wallow in the same mud that he did. He's gone for now. Good riddance. Moving on.
You have to realize the vernacular back in those days was much much more different than the english we use and slang today. So it would be rather hard to decipher what the true intent was when you are thinking in todays terms.
(*sigh*) Take down one myth and even more pop up. It never ends.
Tell a lie often enough and ..........this has been floating around for a long time and Kinsey has been totally discredited as a pedophile, homosexual and pervert......whoever studied and worked with him must have been the same.
Oh..I understand that. I'm not saying he was or wasn't. Just saying that he seem to have an unusually close relationship with this one individual and reading his letters one got the sense there may have been more. And this was not anything I was looking for just happen to be a recurring thought as I read the letters and the book. I have never thought about it again until this thread.
What does it matter really. He's been dead 139 years I doubt many will believe it.
Oh..I understand that. I'm not saying he was or wasn't. Just saying that he seem to have an unusually close relationship with this one individual and reading his letters one got the sense there may have been more. And this was not anything I was looking for just happen to be a recurring thought as I read the letters and the book. I have never thought about it again until this thread.
What does it matter really. He's been dead 139 years I doubt many will believe it.
"however, that he was a blood thirsty, war mongering tyrant who discarded the Constitution and invaded another nation"
---Boy you're asking for it LOL He did not, however, invade any nation --- he reunited one!
"He could be on tape raping young boys and the Lincoln worshipers would say it was necessary to free the slaves."
Adios Red Troll Phillips. You stank!
Alexander; gayer than Liberace
(Richard I - less clear, had known illegitimate children, no contemorary accusations by political enemies - unlike William II, Edward II, Richard II)
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