Dating back to Abraham Lincoln, and before him, James Buchanan, thers has been speculation that both men were secretly gay.
Famous author C.A. Tripp wrote a incomplete manifest assering that Lincolns relationships with women were either invented, or collossal failures. Lincoln did marry, but none of his relationships seemed to be intimate, or last very long, and showed that his closer "relationships" were of those with men. However, Tripp died in 2003, so any inaccuracies or cleanups in his manifesto were ever corrected or made.
James Buchanan, another example, is the only President to never marry. His neice served as the de facto First Lady, and his own chief executive, James Loewen, outed him as a supposed homosexual in his book, "Lies my teacher told me."
While there is much reason to doubt the accuracy of the claims that either Lincoln or Buchanan were gay, the truth remains that we live in a homophobic society. Although Indiana University sudies conducted as recently as 2005 have show that every 1 in 10 individuals are either homosexual or bi-sexual, we live in a society where it is very hard to "come out of the closet". This may be attributed to many things, whether it be the way we were raised by our parents, our surroundings, or what religion has told us.
I in fact, based upon reading exerpts from the stories on Buchanan and on Lincoln, most likely believe that Buchanan was in fact homosexual, and that Lincolnm could have possibly been. And it doesn't bother me in the slightest, or change how I view them in terms of historical perspective.But to this day, we have never had a candidate elected to represent a party for the presidency that has been openly homosexual.
So I ask of you: What if the day came when there was a candidate that was openly gay, yet he concurred with the values and ideals you hold for this country? Would you vote for him/her, or would the fact that this person is a homosexual give you pause?
Famous author C.A. Tripp wrote a incomplete manifest assering that Lincolns relationships with women were either invented, or collossal failures. Lincoln did marry, but none of his relationships seemed to be intimate, or last very long, and showed that his closer "relationships" were of those with men. However, Tripp died in 2003, so any inaccuracies or cleanups in his manifesto were ever corrected or made.
James Buchanan, another example, is the only President to never marry. His neice served as the de facto First Lady, and his own chief executive, James Loewen, outed him as a supposed homosexual in his book, "Lies my teacher told me."
While there is much reason to doubt the accuracy of the claims that either Lincoln or Buchanan were gay, the truth remains that we live in a homophobic society. Although Indiana University sudies conducted as recently as 2005 have show that every 1 in 10 individuals are either homosexual or bi-sexual, we live in a society where it is very hard to "come out of the closet". This may be attributed to many things, whether it be the way we were raised by our parents, our surroundings, or what religion has told us.
I in fact, based upon reading exerpts from the stories on Buchanan and on Lincoln, most likely believe that Buchanan was in fact homosexual, and that Lincolnm could have possibly been. And it doesn't bother me in the slightest, or change how I view them in terms of historical perspective.But to this day, we have never had a candidate elected to represent a party for the presidency that has been openly homosexual.
So I ask of you: What if the day came when there was a candidate that was openly gay, yet he concurred with the values and ideals you hold for this country? Would you vote for him/her, or would the fact that this person is a homosexual give you pause?