I don’t subscribe to the Claremont Review of Books, but every once in a while they send me an issue. it seems like everytime I get a copy there is something in it about Lincoln. The most recent issue (Summer 2005) contains “a critical symposium” on C.A. Tripp’s book The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln. Tripp argues that Lincoln was a homosexual. Claremont invited Lincoln scholar Allen C. Guelzo to “select a distinguished group of scholars and Lincoln experts to address the book and its claims.” Notably absent from the list of “scholars and Lincoln experts” was one of the most important, our own Thomas DiLorenzo. The scholars and experts all agreed that Lincoln definitely was not a homosexual and that the book was flawed. Whether Lincoln was gay or not is immaterial. It is just a shame that a scholar and Lincoln expert like Professor DiLorenzo was not invited to participate because he is not a Lincoln idolator.
It is interesting that the Georgia Log Cabin Republicans (a homosexual organization) have adopted Abraham Lincoln as their president.
