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From: peduto@pyuxv.UUCP (S A Peduto)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: History and Homosexuality
Message-ID: <565@pyuxv.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Jul-84 13:08:51 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  9 13:08:51 1984
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Subject: Re: History and homosexuality
References: <8442@brunix.UUCP>, <121@uwmacc.UUCP>, <356@pyuxss.UUCP>
I would just like to reply a bit to the articles about homosexuality
and social decline.  As Gibbon makes clear, the Roman Empire fell
after it had adopted Christianity as its official religion, and, 
incidentally, outlawed homosexual activity.  This would seem to 
indicate that homophobia is the cause of the fall of states.  Gibbon himself
felt that Christianity caused the fall of the Empire.  It should
also be noted that ancient Greece had its greatest flowering during
the period when homoerotic relationships were considered to be
superior to hetero-erotic ones.  When this aspect of Hellenic life
passed, so did the "grandeur that was Greece."  These historical facts
should provide food for thought for those that blame Gayness or homo-
eroticism for societial decline.