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psychologist, university professor and author of the 1975 best-seller The Homosexual Matrix, which helped transcend outdated Freudian clichés and establish that a same-sex affectional and sexual orientation is a normal and natural occurrence.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 ...
A State has an absolute right to secede at any time, with or without cause, and the other States should have nothing to say about it. (Nothing stops them from counseling otherwise, but they should do nothing militarily or embargo or whatever to prevent it.)
Don't know what state you live in, but wouldn't you like to secede if Kerry wins? (I'm not happy with either Social Democrat Party Candidate A or Social Democrat Party Candidate B.)
By the way, do you know what you would call the Confederacy had they been allowed to secede instead of invaded? A Free Republic ;-)
Says who?
ok, let me rephrase that.. certain repubs are as delusional as dems... particularly lincoln loving repubs and law/order at all costs repubs...
SAHM ...stay at home mom
And what brought you over to the Lincoln loathers pray tell?
Quoth the Non-Sequitur: "Squack! Tu quoque! Tu quoque!"
No, quoth the Non-Sequitur: "Tu Crammit! Tu Crammit!"
For Wlat's purposes, without a doubt.
Post-modernist revisionism....What a load of CRAP!!!
In 50 years they will be calling Doubia a closet fruitcake for how he changed world history.
Palllleeeeeaaasssseeeeee!!!!!!!!!1
Your claim is illogical as it presumes the very matter of dispute before the court to have been true. It also presumes the foresight of a congressional act that did not happen for another two years and assumes that what Judge Merrick did, which was legally authorized under the unchanged and standing laws of congress, was somehow "wayward" on an unspecified and arbitrary decision of the executive. In short, capitan, you are full of it.
Your point? Merrick was a Georgetown law professor - the natural choice for appointment to the DC Circuit Court. The fact that he was from the DC area does not make him a confederate agent as you alleged any more than the fact that John Fremont was a South Carolinian makes him a secessionist.
Accusations of disloyalty on his part are recorded in the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.
Display them. Time to put up or shut up.
Well, Lincoln told Orrestes Brownson at the time that his purpose was to gain a political advantage at home and in europe for his side in the war.
The section you quote, BTW, was added at the advice of the cabinet, which did include some Christians. Lincoln was not planning to put it in the original.
Also, can the federal government expel a state from the union?
I can't speak for Walt. How about you? Does it qualify for you?
Well, Mary was kinda cute when she was young (old portraits), of course she lost her looks when she hit her mid-30's like people used to do.....
Lincoln had a girlfriend who died when he was young. He was very much hung on her and her death devastated him. Let the gay theorists explain that.
'Homosexuals' don't reproduce, they recruit.
The third law:
Any exposure of children to homosexual behavior is child abuse
"Nice boy, this Doug Ireland kid, but he's about as sharp as a bowling ball"- Foghorn Leghorn
Know anything about Ireland? The name sounds familiar, but then I'm probably thinking of Innes Ireland and Jill Ireland.
Claiming famous people are gay has been a cottage industry for gay polemicists -- but they're always careful not to out the closeted gays who are helping them in places like Washington or in the offices of Exodus, NARTH, Focus on the Family, and so on.
They like to get next to some prominent conservative (Bob Dornan, Jerry Falwell) and then come out at a strategic moment.
They like it even better when the conservative has a gay in the family -- then they'll out him/her, even if the person doesn't come out voluntarily, to force the target to choose between defending his family member or defending his stand on public morals. He either has to turn on a member of his own family (vile) or turn hypocrite (also vile), both demoralizing to conservatives. It's a political variant of the "fork" move in chess. Well-known examples: Barry Goldwater, Newt Gingrich, Dick and Lynne Cheney.
The homosexual polemicists' entire object here is intestinely and cordially inimical to conservatives: it is to cut our hearts out and show them to us on a stick.
You sure got that right. Two for two.
I realize that this is an odd bit of role reversal, but in the interests of accuracy and integrity, I have to say that the whole Ann Rutledge story has been discredited.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.