Posted on 07/07/2014 8:15:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
RE: Co-opt the dead.
They can’t confirm or deny...
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There was also a book that claimed Abe Lincoln was gay.
Apparently, Lincoln was close friends with Joshua Speed, a man considered effeminate by contemporaries, and the two shared both living quarters and a bed for four years.
This of course, was not highly unusual for the time, as men often slept together because of a lack of money or space, but the relationship may have been more intimate than a deep friendship.
Lincoln wrote what many consider to be a homoerotic poem about Speed, and Lincoln broke off his engagement to Mary Todd when Speed left Illinois to concentrate on his own marriage and business pursuits.
It was only after a respite from work and his personal life at Speed’s plantation in Kentucky that Lincoln reconsidered marriage. This certainly does not prove Lincoln was bisexual, but the circumstantial evidence points in that direction.
Additionally, Lincoln’s bodyguard, Captain David Derickson, reportedly shared a bed with the president when Lincoln’s wife was out of town and had a close personal relationship with Lincoln that extended beyond business. Again, this was a rumor, and some historians have discounted it as hearsay, but the fact that Washington society was aware of it might indicate an element of truth. Interestingly, Lincoln’s supposed homosexuality led to the establishment of the Log Cabin Republicans, a modern political organization predominantly comprised of homosexual Republicans dedicated to same-sex issues.
And now they try to paint every hero as a homosexuals. No, he wasn’t. The homos were the Nazis. Ernst Roehm.
Still waiting for the sodomite nazis to claim John Wayne and George S. Patton were queer. Never been much of a Lincoln fan, but the stuff about him being a fag is farfetched to say the least, but that still does not stop the acceptance-hungry sodomites from labeling anyone and everyone fag if there is the least bit of “evidence”. They usually wait till after the person is dead so they can’t defend themselves.
I have a different view .. perhaps, as “an anti-Nazi dissident whose theological writings” may have been more important to him.
There are some people who’s calling is more important than the expected temporary gratification of a normal life.
To assume he’s gay without any evidence is typical of the left in their attempts to smear his name. But, I thought being gay was okay .. maybe not. The left is sick!
It’s hard for the left to contemplate doing without a sex life .. but for some people it’s a secondary thought; not a first.
“There are some people who’s calling is more important than the expected temporary gratification of a normal life.”
The same specious speculation is ruminated about Adolph Hitler also. That he was gay. No proof at all, but the speculation is endless. Maybe Bonhoeffer and Adolph Hitler were gay lovers and Bonhoeffer tried to blow up Hitler as part of a lover’s quarrel. That would be a good tale to tell. It’s as good as any of the other many fabrications as to who is/was gay or not.
“Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a brave man of principle.”
In my view, if he was a homosexual, and never acted on those sinful desires, makes him even more a man of principle.
This is just...sad.
Well .. good luck with that story.
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