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psychologist, university professor and author of the 1975 best-seller The Homosexual Matrix, which helped transcend outdated Freudian clichés and establish that a same-sex affectional and sexual orientation is a normal and natural occurrence.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.
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Everybody knows that babies come from storks!
Noted, and apologies for the suggestion that...
Arafat got AIDS from Bin Laden.
Masturbate a dog. That's straight sick! This guy was undeniably warped by his own homosexual insecurities and agenda.
This guy is a defamatory elitist moron. I propose that since assexuality (very low or non exsistant sex drive) is more common statistically than homosexuality, and that Lincoln was a man of much higher moral standards than most men. He was so pre-disposed with living his life within the circumfrence of those moral bounds he had an unatural lack of sexual desire.
But an elitist liberal wouldn't have the slightest idea what the "circumfrance of moral bounds" are, which would explain the motivation for trying to slander one of greatest human beings to walk the earth postumously.
Kinsey was a phenomenal fraud. Once his name appears in an article, it's hard for me to take any of it seriously.
TMI!!! I think that I shall vomit forthwith.
Kinsey was a wacked out psychopath. As with many in the homosexual community, mental illness runs rampant.
Homosexual activists are baldfaced liars, worse than John Kerry.
Is nothing sacred? Digging into the personal life of a man long-dead is shameful, never mind that he was a great President during a difficult period in our country's history.
Gay!? That's funny I've read he suffered from clinical depression, not a happy type at all...
Kinsey was a pervert and a pedophile.
Uhmmm...NO.
Yep......and modern day socialist-Democrats' attempts to annex (Democrat) Thomas Jefferson as one of their own is equally absurd.
'Nuff said!
No. Only the positive role models. All the bad people were hetero.
I had a graduate history class with a professor who teaches Social History (twaddle) and he rambled about Kinsey's "groundbreaking" and "revolutionary" work. he thought that Kinsey was some kind of genius. Namely this professor was giddy about the idea that the 1950s were somehow rife with all sorts of odd/bizarre sexual practices.
He didn't even look happy much less gay.
Sick, sick, sick. There is no evidence whatsoever that Lincoln (or Speed, for that matter)was an ass bandit.
LA Weekly articles by Doug Ireland should be given the same serious consideration as Trans-gender Aliens of Color in Weekly World News.
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