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From: peduto@pyuxv.UUCP (S A Peduto)
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Subject: History and Homosexuality -clarification
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Date: Wed, 11-Jul-84 13:15:24 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 11 13:15:24 1984
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As the author of the Gibbon comment, let me just say that if I
had my druthers, I'd take Gibbon's ideas over those of any 
archeologist any time.  Just call me a conservative.

By the way, what's this resistance to accepting an opinion
at least two hundred year's old, embodied in a book considered
a classic?

The point I was trying to make --simply-- is that Christianity was
not the historical benefit its followers take it to be, and homosexuality
-- or homo-eroticism-- or Gayness  -- has a much longer and more honorable
history.  Nietschze, for example, held that Christianity was a philosophy
of decadence.