Lies and slanders

[erudito]

Since homosexuals are [almost] always born into heterosexual families and overwhelmingly heterosexual milieus, they are the most isolated of all social groups. So the easiest to demean and slander. And find it the hardest to achieve social “critical mass” to stand up for being treated as just folk (or even a sense that there are other people like

Comments

[fizzyland]

This is such a well-written post. I don't understand why the Judeo-Christian religions(and I include Islam in there) are so adamant in their homophobia. But then, religion is always the last to embrace any kind of social improvements.

Origins

[erudito]

Thank you

The key original revelations for the people of the book came out of desert/fringe dwelling pastoralists and farmers (Arabs and Hebrews). Keeping the birth rate up was a high priority.

Then the early Christians took on the Stoic concept of sex (good only for babies) plus a touch of Manichean influence (some parts of Creation are problematic), and they were away ...