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Originally posted by snowman
I would be willing to bet more than the price of any Porsche, that if you were to place a homo in the USA in 1776, that he would be strung up immediately. There was no question, no questinon of what was aceptable behavior and what was not and there was no written law necessary to enforce such "natural" law.
I still like my analogy of a fart. Totally natural, but always offensive. In other words, never admit your the one that stunk everyone else out of the room. Or in other words, keep it to yourself.,
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My suspicion is the opposite. In the 1700s, our European ancestors were closer to nature -- and nature demonstrably includes all variables. Later, especially in the Victorian era, there was an effort to behave in a more "Appolonian" manner, denying all nature in humans. It got so bad that in some households, table legs were covered with pantaloons. In those societies, without doubt homosexuality was considered a notorious sin -- witness the treatment of Oscar Wilde.