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From: lieuwen@mycella.cs.wisc.edu (Dan Lieuwen)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Imposing Christian morality on nonbelievers
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Date: 6 Mar 91 04:50:09 GMT
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^The "traditional Christian morality" you claim is anything but that.
^Persecution of gay people started in about the 13th century AD.
^...  Historians have detected a
^marked shift in attitudes around the 13th century, but not before.
^They have plenty of documents attesting to the widespread acceptance
^of gay people prior to that, and to occasional vigorous debate.

You ignore the Didache which can be found in The Apostolic Fathers,
some of the earliest writings of the church after the close of the
the New Testament era.  It clearly forbids sodomy.  If that's not
sufficient, it is not a very difficult task to find other explicit
condemnation of homosexual sexual activity in the Church Fathers.


Dan