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psychologist, university professor and author of the 1975 best-seller The Homosexual Matrix, which helped transcend outdated Freudian clichés and establish that a same-sex affectional and sexual orientation is a normal and natural occurrence.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 ...
Too Late. See the play Corpus Christi.
"Wait wait I got it. Kermit the Frog was gay! I mean come on, the number of times he shunned Miss Piggy. "
Kermit shunned Miss piggy because he is Muslim. Bert and Ernie are gay.
It's not rocket science to figure out that making outrageous or even plain silly claims in no way requires rewriting anything. Other than, perhaps, acknowledging society's mistake of being suckered in by the late seventies' plea for "tolerance" from the perverts.
Exactly...these people think men can only be two things -- gay or waiting to become gay.
I guess they write these books to justify their own tendencies.
Only the LA Times and The Village Voice would consider Kinsey a serious scholar. The Knisey report has be shredded so many times that Freddy Kruger would be proud of the devastation. Kinsey's methodology and findings have been nuked by reputable, serious reserachers and psychologists.
Why does that not surprise me...lol. I totally forgot about that play and all the uproar caused over it.
Sickening story.
There is strong evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald was bisexual; certainly, evidence stronger than anything the people attaching themselves to Lincoln (or Lincoln to themselves) can offer.
But I don't hear the "Everyone in American History Was Gay" Movement going anywhere near him.
-Dan
Abe Lincoln was not gay. Just more gibberish from the lefty nutcases.
I can't imagine that association with Kinsey can be considered any kind of a benefit to one's academic career. Then again, many academics still think Karl Marx was pretty cool...
BS. Homos just trying to legitimize their deviant, degenerate behavior. The assault on our borders, language and culture, continues on all fronts.
No. It's part of the title of the article.
Signed,
Doofus
Does this make the Ft. Sumter attack a "hate crime"?
I agree. "Scholars" have analyzed letters written during the same time period by women to their female friends and assume from the terms of endearment that were used that the women were lovers. In reality, the letters just typify the flowery, emotional writing style of the time.
----Well, he wore a wig and ruffles.----
And he never had children. HMMMMM....
-Dan
If he would have come out with a book saying Hillary was gay..or at least bisexual, then I'd be more receptive. Afterall, we all now she has been with a woman.
Mr. Tripp has suddenly discovered that Lincoln was a Republican, and therefore, must be destroyed in the minds of all those bigots in the Republican party. </cynicism>
The Homo Agenda will slime anyone and anything to advance their perversion.
This is nothing new. The "Log Cabin Republicans" are based on the erroneous theory that Abe Lincoln was gay.
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