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 Partys 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psychologist, university professor and author of the 1975 best-seller The Homosexual Matrix, which helped transcend outdated Freudian clichés and establish that a same-sex affectional and sexual orientation is a normal and natural occurrence.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 persons 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 Lincolns 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.
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You hit the nail on the head here.
Sad but true.
I was raised in a Conservative Republican home, with a father who revered Lincoln, and it was only as I grew up and read more that I discovered Lincoln's other side. Still, I think this attempt to paint him as a homosexual is more based on politics than on the evidence.
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