This is a family friendly site and some of the language is inappropriate. This link doesn't belong on this site.
__________________ Few take the trouble to understand or to view the American scene with perspective. And we Americans love to find ourselves guilty of something. However, it is never I who am guilty, but those other Americans, the past or present government or the other political party. Americans almost never find other countries guilty. It is always ourselves or our fancied influence in other countries. Louis L'amour
Thanks, Tommy, for posting this site. Anyone who doesn't want to read it is certainly under no obligation to do so, but I would hate to have my knowledge of news articles, books, papers, etc. limited by censorship.
I too believe we are a family friendly site but I don't believe there are any children, even the age of 11 who are so engrossed in the WBTS that they would pick up this blurb in our forum.
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The bit about sharing beds should be viewed in the historical context of the time and not through the spectacles of our contemporary perspective. Recall that sharing a bed was uncommon in those days. When you went to a tavern, you got a spot in a bed and not the entire bed itself. If you got up in the night to use the chamber pot, someone would take your place on the bed and you got the floor. Sharing a bed in those days did not raise an inference of naughtiness as we would think today.
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The thing that bothers me the most is how people can just pick a topic of history and distort it in any way they want to. I want to be informed of things like this. That way I know what warped minds are coming up with to DESTROY historical facts. Thanks Tommy for the link.
While I appreciate that CW Talk is a family oriented site, occasionally a topic is raised that would be considered of a more adult nature, and I have addressed these issues myself i.e. prostitution during the Civil War etc. Personally, I am interested in all aspects of the CW and as long as language is respected, I would prefer to decide for myself whether I think material/topics are worth reading, or appropriate. In truth, I'm surprised that the above subject hasn't surfaced before, since homosexuality was not exclusive to the Civil War time period, and the brilliant and revered poet Walt Whitman was a well-known homosexual.
The sexual preference of past and present political leaders is only interesting to me in the context that it is used, and that is for the purpose of tawdry, back-street, 'can't think of anything else to say,' journalism. No better example of this than the recent debate between John Kerry and President Bush when Kerry decided that this was a good forum to note that Dick Cheney's daughter is a lesbian.
Whether President Lincoln was gay or not is of the least importance to me, but I would like to reserve the option to read and discuss this aspect of the President's life.
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