WaPo Op-Ed: America has already had a gay president

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3. Thanks for this nice history lesson. I had heard that he was a 'bachelor' president but I ...

didn't go further in analysis of this statement (in school, I was happy to just know the required minimum number of presidents back then, so didn't go into length...of course we learned about the pillars of US presidents, Adams, Jefferson, Washington, Roosevelt, etc., but the more obscure ones I didn't learn about (more interested in my degreed topics then). It's always amazing to me that the wide variety of informative postings on DU are so varied and encompassing. Thanks again for providing this history lesson, I really enjoyed it.

Too bad that he was on the wrong side of history regarding a disgusting issue, slavery, via the Dred Scott decision/case. We, for the most part in today's society realize how abhorrent and disgusting this practice (slavery) is. I'm glad other more reasonable voices stood up and spoke out against this practice and outlawed it. It should have never been allowed, as the words of the Constitution clearly states 'all men are created equal'...which was, from what I recall, was used in arguments back then against slavery.