'America The Beautiful' Author Is Lesbian Socialist

[tinydancer]

Talk about revisionist historian Colbert. Let's start with the socialist part.

She voted for Davis once. Lifelong Republican.

A lifelong, active Republican, Bates broke with the party to endorse Democratic presidential candidate John W. Davis in 1924 because of Republican opposition to American participation in the League of Nations. She said: "Though born and bred in the Republican camp, I cannot bear their betrayal of Mr. Wilson and their rejection of the League of Nations, our one hope of peace on earth.

Lesbian? Prove it. You can't. Because it was not unusual for spinsters to live together at that time. Not at all. She considered herself to be a "free flying spinster".

Others contest the use of the term lesbian to describe such a "Boston marriage".

Writes one: "We cannot say with certainty what sexual connotations these relationships conveyed. We do know that these relationships were deeply intellectual; they fostered verbal and physical expressions of love."

Best friends until death. It never ceases to amaze me how the left just has to categorize everyone by race and sex. Obviously it would never ever cross a progressive's mind that two women could be two loving friends for life without any sexual contact.

Sheesh. Progressives are fucked up.

Katharine Lee Bates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[tinydancer]

Oh and a special note here.

Bates did not write the song "America the Beautiful". She wrote a poem called "Pike's Peak". Samuel A. Ward composed the music.

Truth out.

"America the Beautiful" is an American patriotic song. The lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates, and the music was composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward.

Bates originally wrote the words as a poem, Pikes Peak, first published in the Fourth of July edition of the church periodical The Congregationalist in 1895. At that time, the poem was titled America for publication.

Ward had originally written the music, Materna, for the hymn O Mother dear, Jerusalem in 1882, though it was not first published until 1892. Ward's music combined with the Bates poem was first published in 1910 and titled America the Beautiful..

America the Beautiful - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[jwoodie]

'america the beautiful' author is rush limbaugh's favorite lesbian socialist

had these conservative commentators known the origins of "america the beautiful," they might have been doubly outraged, accusing coca cola of promoting the so-called "homosexual agenda." because, had they bothered to look up the facts (not a strong point among reactionaries), they would have learned that "america the beautiful" was written by -- dare we say this in public? -- a lesbian!

Yes, indeed. The author of this iconic anthem of american patriotism was katharine lee bates. In a brilliant lampoon of the bigots' backlash against the coke commercial, stephen colbert pointed out that bates was a lesbian. He could also have added that she was also a christian socialist and an ardent foe of american imperialism.

Bates (1859-1929), a well-respected poet and professor of english at wellesley college, was part of progressive reform circles in the boston area, concerned about labor rights, urban slums and women's suffrage.

For decades bates lived with and loved her wellesley colleague katharine coman, founder of the college's economics department, who authored the history of contract labor in the hawaiian islands and the economic history of the far west. Coman was also a poet. She and bates jointly wrote english history as taught by english poets.

Although they lived together for 25 years in what was then called a "boston marriage," they could not publicly acknowledge their intimate relationship. When coman died, however, bates published yellow clover: A book of remembrance that celebrated their love and their involvement in the radical and social reform movements of their day.

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