Ah, academia...

Nathaniel Frank is a senior research fellow at the Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military at the University of California, Santa Barbara. (emphasis mine) NYT

You've got to be kidding me! California taxpayers are financing a center for "the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military"? I don't know whether to laugh or to cry. Thank the Lord that I don't live in California - as if those loons don't support enough weird things already - now this?

How much research could there possibly be in this area? And I'm sure by "sexual minorities" they are including pedophiles, hermaphrodites, etc., right? No, of course not. The Center only "promotes the interdisciplinary analysis of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and other marginalized sexual identities in the armed forces." What about their "marginalized" brethren that love children or animals? No analysis of them?

Not only does today's NYT offer the above nugget of hilarity ("not funny ha-ha, but funny queer"), but it also offers an article on an upcoming book that discusses Abraham Lincoln's homosexuality. That is right people - according to the author, C. A. Tripp, Honest Abe "was a gay man." Will wonders never cease? And people argue that the gay community doesn't have an agenda - ha.

They use taxpayer dollars to study "sexual minorities" in the military and claim that the man historians generally rank as the most important President in U.S. history was one of them. Unbelievable...