“I ask him how old he is. He turns away as he mumbles “18″ and I subtract two, possibly three years.”
Philadelphia Gay News 2008

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At least in this one she doesn’t elevate someone to the Presidency as American voters never did as she did Alexander Hamilton in her still circulating, laughable excretion on George Washington in which she tried to paint the proverbial father of our country as some kind of 18th century male fag hag. But this one is hardly less intellectually insulting. Let’s go to a REAL source on the period—Randy Shilts, whose writing she TOTALLY misrepresented in her screed on our first ACTUAL president. In his landmark study on gays and the military, “Conduct Unbecoming,” he states unequivocally:

“The acceptance of General Steuben and his contributions to the fledgling American military did not mean there was even tacit acceptance of homosexuality.”

As for her irresponsible CLAIMS about the play “Jonathas et David ou le Triomphe de l’Amitié,” she is either ignorant of or chooses to ignore the fact that its author, Father Pierre Brumoy, specifically stated in his prologue that his drama was about “saintly friendship” and not about what “resides in hearts prone to crime.”

Ms. Brownworth’s assertions of fantasies as facts remind me of the “Peanuts” cartoon containing this exchange:

“Van Pelt: Aren’t the clouds beautiful? They look like big balls of cotton. I could just lie here all day and watch them drift by. If you use your imagination, you can see lots of things in the cloud’s formations. What do you think you see, Linus?
Linus Van Pelt: Well, those clouds up there look to me look like the map of the British Honduras on the Caribbean. That cloud up there looks a little like the profile of Thomas Eakins, the famous painter and sculptor. And that group of clouds over there gives me the impression of the Stoning of Stephen. I can see the Apostle Paul standing there to one side.
Lucy Van Pelt: Uh huh. That’s very good. What do you see in the clouds, Charlie Brown?
Charlie Brown: Well… I was going to say I saw a duckie and a horsie, but I changed my mind.”