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psychologist, university professor and author of the 1975 best-seller The Homosexual Matrix, which helped transcend outdated Freudian clichés and establish that a same-sex affectional and sexual orientation is a normal and natural occurrence.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 ...
This is just SICK.
Ridiculous. This "doctor" has an obvious agenda.
I heard Arafat is sick and dying from aids...maybe you should ahve followed that story.
Does this piece of trash even consider the idea that the man believed in God's laws? Give me a break. This is yet another attempt by the homosexual/gay lobby to make them seem more normal.
Chrissy Matthews just peed on her pants.
LOLOLOL!
Wasn't Kinsey a child molester?
What next? George Washington was a transsexual?
Who has historical accounts of when someone reached puberty? Especially an unknown kid from Illinois? Give me a break.
And the next book by academia will reveal that Lincoln was really a Muslim. . .
Why do so many gays have to justify their sexual orientation by suggesting almost every notable figure is homosexual? This is getting old and ridiculous, not to mention insulting to a great man.
Gee, maybe John Wilkes Booth was a jilted lover???
(sarcasm)
Rewriting history again. People with a brain won't listen to this cr@p.
Well he did wear a wig...so he must have.
MODERATOR PLEASE KILL THIS BLOG!
Oh paleeeeeeeeeze.
For the past 20 years, "outing" dead historical figures has turned into a cottage industry for the extreme elements of the pro-gay community. They have "outed" Alexander, Peter the Great and dozens of others with virtually no evidence; just that they want others to believe they were "gay."
But, this is over the top, even for them.
"groundbreaking sexologist Alfred Kinsey" has been discredited and Dr C. A. Tripp is tainted. Just more BS.
This story has been around for at least 50 years or so. It's more interesting to see who actually cares.
Yeah sure. And Idi Amin is the righful king of Scotland...
Of course we all know what they'll say next; Jesus was gay. This is just absurd and a waste of time.
Given all we know about Mary Lincoln I would it hard to fault him were it true.
Just more trash from another Gay Maggot pushing the Gay Agenda in the MSM posing as news. Maggot Ireland came out of the closet as a proud Gay Maggot in 1973. He hates any Christian Leader.
Doug Ireland: Doug Ireland is a longtime radical political journalist and media critic, who considers himself a purveyor of what the great I.F. ... Doug has been proudly out of the closet as a gay man since 1973, and has written extensively about gay political issues ...
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Wait wait I got it. Kermit the Frog was gay! I mean come on, the number of times he shunned Miss Piggy. Who doesn't like bacon?!
Must be another @sshole neo-confederate type.
IIRC, Dr. DiLorenzo raised the question in The Real Lincoln, but dismissed it as modern people misinterpreting customs and habits from another era.
Deo Vindice!
Was Abe Lincoln Gay?
Who really cares?
Bla bla bla everyones gay some just don't know it.
Puh-leeze!
Further proof that the lunatics have been running the asylum long enough.
What next? George Washington was a transsexual?
Well, he wore a wig and ruffles.
Oh damn I almost forgot...John Kerry at the last debate...
"Did you know the party of Abe Lincoln is gay. I'm not saying it to be insensitive, I'm just saying it to say it. Know what I'm saying?"
Thank you Mr. Kerry for being so insightful!
Freepers,
Does your life revolve around sex?
Mine neither. Although it seems that most of these freakjobs can't think beyond their next conquest and must believe that we're all the same.
Wasn't Lincoln really Italian?
Wasn't he a member of the Knights of Columbus?
No? What? That was Secretary of State Seward? Oh.
Well I'll be.
-Dan
Did he or did he not wear a wig????
This connection is instructive since Kinsey's research has been proven to be fraudulent.
That is exactly the angle they work.
Peter the Great was supposedly "gay" because he would often sleep in a dogpile of other men, particularly after a night of heavy drinking. What the "outers" failed to mention was that that was the custom of the day. It was common for men to sleep in groups on the floor even in the same bed.
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.
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