Is gay marriage older than the Bible?
Is gay marriage older than the Bible? Probably. Homophobia in western sociaty only really got into its swing towards the latter Roman period as christianity took over.
posted by chris at 2/14/2005 04:54:00 pm
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I don't know about BEFORE the Bible, the oldest parts of which were written about 1,000 BC. But the Old Testament is pretty clearly against, if the death penalty is anything to go by.
The Romans around the time of Jesus birth were pretty easy about such things. But Roman soldiers posted to the German frontier were warned that homosexuality among the Germanic tribes was also punishable by death. They were told that open displays of 'affection' by Romans would create bad feeling among the natives.
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