Posted on 01/28/2005 1:11:25 PM PST by EveningStar
What were the rumors about Buchanan?
I'm a great fan--I'd be willing to do it. How do you start a ping list?
Uh oh....I can see the Photoshopped product now...
sullivan can't leave his friends "behind"....
Oops, Andrew's gone.
James Buchanan was not close to anyone except Senator William Rufus DeVane King of Alabama, his long term roommate. In some correspondence of the time, their contemporaries refer to Senator King (who was later Vice President in the Pierce Administration) by the moniker of "Aunt Nancy". Also, Buchanan's one time fiancee died after a fit of hysterics - we do not know what brought this on.
Regards, Ivan
Buchanan had a male roommate in Washington and was never married, but without evidence, I don't think one should assume that any sex was involved.
Post an announcement to that you are starting a Michael Medved ping list. Then search for Medved threads. Select names from those thread and ping them, asking them if they would like to participate. Add those that do to your list.
Still there.
one guy found some records where abe slept in a hotel with some man. And this proves exactly what?? Just silly.
Heard the historian Cowin-Goodwin (spelling?) on Imus this week discussing this claim. She is a liberal who is writing a book on Lincoln. She said that part of the evidence for his being gay was that he shared his bed with other men when he was campaining. She said that men (and women) shared beds at the time because there were not enough beds to go around. Everyone did it.
One of our research assistants here told me that he was going skiing with a group of guys. They were all going to share the same room (and bed). He said that he was used to sharing other guys beds from his swim team competition while at University. He said "you just learn to sleep with four guys in the same bed. All the teams did". One day, someone will write a history of college competitions and conclude that .... I'll let you fill the blank. What can I say -pure liberal drivel.
From The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 15, 1999Buchanan, gay? Who’d have thought?
Anyone who bothered to look into his living arrangements, says James W. Loewen, an adjunct professor of sociology at Catholic University. Of course, in his new book, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong (The New Press), Mr. Loewen is speaking of the first Buchanan with Presidential politics in his blood, James.
Mr. Loewen, author of the best-selling Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (New Press, 1995), sets out in his new, self-described “rant” to dispel the myths that befog the American landscape. In a chapter titled “You’re Here to See the House,” he recalls asking a tour guide at Wheatland, Buchanan’s mansion near Lancaster, Pa., whether the 15th President was gay. “He most definitely was not,” came the outraged reply.
“Most likely was,” insists Mr. Loewen. Buchanan’s long-time living companion, William Rufus King, was referred to by critics as his “better half,” ‘’his wife,” and “Aunt Fancy.” Around Washington, the pair were known as the “Siamese twins,” slang at the time for gays and lesbians. And when King was appointed envoy to France, in 1844, Buchanan lamented to a friend that “I have gone wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any of them.”
The relationship may have been more than romantic. Mr. Loewen speculates that Buchanan, a native of a fiercely anti-slavery section of Pennsylvania, developed pro-slavery views out of sympathy with King, who served as a Democratic Senator from Alabama.
“It’s important to know that some of our leaders have been gay,” says Mr. Loewen, explaining why he outed a man often counted among the 10 worst Presidents. “To know that gay people did things, good things and bad things. You can’t just claim the heroes.”
Here's "the better half" himself, William Rufus King (you be the judge) --
Sorry, I should have said that Corwin-Goodwin thought the claim was preposterous.
If it is okay for the left to call Abraham Lincoln gay, not to mention other historical figures, why do they think it's so terrible for others to call SpongeBob SquarePants gay? (Not that anyone actually did, mind you....LOL!)
Why is Medved forced to suffer the presence of sissyboy sulivan?
Medved is far and away superior to nobody sulivan. I looks like somebody is trying to build up the gravitas of the homo.
Been happening for years. The homosexual movement and their liberal allies in academia have been trying to claim just about every famous person from Jesus Christ onward was actually a closet homosexual. The evidence is usually fabricated or misconstrued. The most common example is when they take letters one man wrote to another and say "See, only two men 'in love' would write to each other like this". Of course they don't realize it was common speech back then and had no sexual connotation.
It's a chance for Medved to slap him around, without being called a "gay-basher."
He's not forced to do it. Michael loves to debate.
OKay, I guess I'll start a Medved ping list and try to figure it out. Anyone want to be on the ping list send me an e-mail.
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