Abraham Lincoln was not gay! ( Please READ before answering )?

Question

( Please read ALL the facts )

The facts:

1) Lincoln, according to his stepmother, "was not very fond of girls as he seemed to me." We know that there is scant evidence of any but perfunctory heterosexual behavior.

2) We know that as a mischievous adolescent, Lincoln wrote a bawdy poem about a potential gay marriage.

3) We know that as president, Lincoln immediately befriended a young captain who was stationed at the White House, took him everywhere with him for a while, introduced him to senior officials, and slept with him in the same bed in the White House when his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, was away. They even shared a night-shirt. To those who say this was normal for nineteenth century men, I wonder if they could find another example of a president asking a captain to sleep with him in his bed when his wife was away.

4) We know that on his arrival in Springfield, Ill., as a young aspiring lawyer, Lincoln met one Joshua Speed at the local general store and immediately agreed to share a bed with him for lodging. Not so unusual in the rustic heartland of those days. But Lincoln and Speed shared their bed for four years.

5) When Speed eventually told Lincoln that he was leaving town, Lincoln had a complete nervous breakdown. YOU DONT HAVE A NERVIOUS BREAKDOWN BECAUSE A PLATONIC FREIND LEAVES TOWN, BUT BECAUSE SOMEONE FROM WHOM YOU NEEDED PHYSICAL CONTACT LEAVES TOWN.

6) "I am now the most miserable man living," Lincoln wrote at the time. "Whether I shall ever be better I can not tell; I awfully forbode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me." Does that sound to you like the reaction to a good friend moving on in life or to a true love affair denied and crushed?

Conclusion: Abraham wasn't gay. Ok perhaps just a bit. Just a little bit.

SOURCE:

C.A. Tripp, author of The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln. His database of Lincoln material is regarded as superb and invaluable to Lincoln scholars everywhere. As conservative writer Richard Brookhiser has noted, all we can say with complete confidence is that "on the evidence before us, Lincoln loved men, at least some of whom loved him back." That's a pretty good definition of the core truth of homosexuality.

Answer 1

What difference does it make if he was or wasn't? What is the historical significance. You sound like your gay bashing.

Answer 2

Why are you so excited to talk about homosexuality? Abraham Lincoln was not a homosexual! Back then they would kill you if they knew you where gay. Which leads me to believe that your facts are not facts at all! But lies! Lincoln's death would have been immediate if that information leaked out to the public.

Answer 3

Whether or not he was, he sure as heck didn't want for the Supreme Court do rule the way it did in Lawrence v. Texas.

Answer 4

Lincoln was a great leader and not a great gay. He was famous for his leadership and not for being gay.

Answer 5

What would Carl Sanburg say?

Answer 6

if you would list your sources instead of just saying"we Know" then youre assertation would carry some weight.

Answer 7

Why am I not surprised. He also caused the deaths of hundreds and thousands of Americans and suspended the Constitution

Answer 8

Have you ever seen a picture of Mrs. Lincoln ?? -- Sorry Mary , but c'mon ....

Answer 9

We need more citizens like you addressing real problems. Maybe I can help you in turn. Get a job.

Answer 10

Lincoln was gay, what does that have to do with us?