There’s a movement at work in the land to rape the memory of Abraham Lincoln. Various individuals, for motives that are there own, are engaging in an attempt to posthumously conscript ol’ Honest Abe into the ranks of the Lavender Brigade. Yes, my friends: the gays are coming for Lincoln.

Frankly, I fear that they’ll be successful. From what I’ve read there’s exactly enough to confuse the stupid and indoctrinate the young. I won’t be at all shocked if, in a decade or so, schoolchildren are routinely taught about the inner turmoil of the painfully closeted 16th President.

The basis of this blasphemous obscenity is a book, entitled The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, written by the late Dr. C.A. Tripp (who just happened to be a disciple of famed fraudulent “sex researcher” Alfred Kinsey) which claims the “out” Lincoln as a homosexual. Already the book has received a great deal of favourable coverage and, quite frankly, I’m sure that it will receive much more as it moves towards release.

Already the matter has been raised in the pages of both the Manchester Guardian and the New York Times. Each, naturally, managed to find some plenty of experts willing to back up this “theory.” As the story gets more coverage with the book’s release, it seems likely that there will be no shortage of Professors, academics, and other assorted “experts” ready to back up its conclusions.

The “evidence” that Lincoln was gay can be summed up as follows:

1) While working on the frontier, he slept in the same bed as other men: an extremely common practice in the day.

2) His marriage was mostly unhappy.

3) His stepmother once said that he wasn’t very fond of girls.

4) He once, in 1829, wrote a humorous poem which mentioned a man mentioned to another man.

5) He and his bodyguard were close during the Civil War (to prove that this has a homosexual link, Dr. Tripp cites an 1895 Regimental History which, to put it mildly, would be unlikely to contain such a thing, even were it to be true).

As a side note, Dr. Tripp began working on the book with a partner who fell out with the good Doctor after accusing him of plagiarism and fabricating evidence that Lincoln was gay. These revelations were, apparently, enough to delay but not enough to stop the publication of the book.

In other words, major newspapers and other organizations are attempting to smear Father Abraham as a homosexual on the basis of distortions, conjecture and rumours being peddled on behalf of a man accused of attempting to fabricate evidence of Lincoln’s supposed homosexuality.

Dr. Tripp is fortunate to be already dead. This kind of thing practically cries out for an Americanized fatwa.

I’m mostly kidding about that last part.

This story will be spread because it provides perfect fodder to advance the agenda of the queer-left coalition. The New York Times is, as is the model, less-than-subtle in spelling out the real point of the story:

Larry Kramer, the author and AIDS activist, said that Mr. Tripp's book "will
change history."

"It's a revolutionary book because the most
important president in the history of the United States was gay," he said. "Now
maybe they'll leave us alone, all those people in the party he founded."

That’s the real point of the whole thing, of course: to embarrass the Republican Party and attempt to force them to swallow the whole of the gay agenda. The left is willing to rape the memory of the nation’s greatest President in order to advance its agenda.

What they’re counting on is the natural agnosticism of most people when confronted with new information. When the average person is presented with information from a theoretically respectable news source, they tend to be willing to accept it or, at the least, they fail to reject it outright. And once this is out there, it’ll spread.

Being not so far removed from Public School classrooms, I can already see that this is information which teachers, especially leftist ones, will latch on to. Children will be indoctrinated with the notion that Lincoln, the greatest President, was gay and so, therefore, there can’t possibly be anything wrong with being gay.

This is revisionist history as its worst: history altered to suit the political purposes of a later day. The names of good men dragged through the mud for the sake of scoring a few points.

More than anything else, this resembles the whole sordid story of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings, where the less-than-credible findings of a few politically biased individuals were used by the media to advance a political point (in that case, to convince people to ease off on Clinton during the Lewinsky matter).

It is now, of course, popularly accepted that President Jefferson carried on an affair with his slave, Sally Hemmings, and that children were produced as a result of this union. This is, to put it mildly, complete and utter bullshit.

DNA testing in the late 1990’s (ironically, the same testing used to damn Jefferson during the Clinton years) proved that, at the most, one of Sally Hemmings many children was fathered by one of many Jefferson males, most likely Thomas’ half-wit younger brother Randolph who was known for idling away his days hanging out with the Jefferson family slaves. Since that time, the Thomas Jefferson Historical Society has commissioned a panel of scholars who produced a 565-page report which concluded that Jefferson almost certainly did not have a sexual relationship with Hemmings or father any of her children.

But now, of course, it’s far too late for the popular belief to be corrected. People will go on believing the story of a sexual relationship between Jefferson and Hemmings for centuries. In the year 2500, there will probably be a class of schoolchildren orbiting some far-off star reading about it.

That’s why it’s important to speak out about this slander now, before it spreads. Once the rape has been actually committed, nothing can ever quite be put right again.