Why is it that people were more accepting of gays hundreds of years ago, and now they are not?

Question

They allowed gay civil unions to happen in medeval times, but, now, heaven forbid!

Who's morep progressive? Us, in year 2007? Or them in year 7?

Dee - you are very wrong. Medeval times were very religious.

rye- also wrong.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070827/sc_livescience/gayunionssanctionedinmedievaleurope

yeah i was suspended - 9th time! 10 - im done.

ty- that's right. gay relationships in greece and rome were considered to be very important and special to men.

Answer 1

i heard that in ancient greece guys only used girls 2 have babies,they had sex with other guys 4 pleasure

Answer 2

In the early 20th century, Germany was the glowing light of intelligence and civilised behavior. Then the 1930's came.

Gays now have the right to marry here in Spain - but that right can be stripped away again within a split second.

The Greecs already said it : Panta Rhei. Or "All is flowing".

Answer 3

The birth of Religious Right with fall of communism they found the perfect target Gays.

Answer 4

No, being gay wasn't allowed in medieval times, but before Christianity took over in the Roman Empire, it was widely accepted.

It was accepted in China and Japan for a long time too, but European influence was one of the primary forces behind that openness ending too.

Honestly, I place most of the blame on the rise of a misguided group of Christians who mixed religion with government to disastrous results.

Answer 5

What society views as acceptable is constantly changing. Some suggest morality goes through cycles. I don't believe that it is as easily defined as that. Some of the major contributing factors I have found in what society, in general, finds acceptable are what the wealthy find acceptable, the media, organized religion, social constructs, and most of all leadership.

Answer 6

I'm going to guess the year 7.

Actually, the US is the most bigoted of all industrialized nations when it comes to gays and lesbians. Europe and even Japan are pretty cool about it.

Answer 7

Because...I think that, peoples from the past, the orientation it doesn't matter much, and it not a common thing, so they don't really mind, but the present day, i just don't know why, but it complicated, but in the present day not completely, unaccepted the homosexual thing.

Answer 8

So you are saying that if something was "allowed" in medieval times, it should be allowed now? I assume that this means you are saying that the following should be "allowed": beheadings, burning at the stake, public whippings, using leeches to "bleed" people, animal sacrifices, putting people in "stocks", stretching people until their backbone snapped, and castration for the purpose of maintaining a high singing voice. All of these things, including homosexual "marriage", were abolished as civilized society progressed. Sorry.

Answer 9

The Bible has been manipulated and mistranslated since those times. The one they read back then was open about homosexuality, well more-so homosexual relationships. There are plenty of examples of early Christian homosexual relationships.

Answer 10

I just like the fact that it dispels the mythology that no society has *ever* sanctioned gay marriages. WRONG. Along with all the other half-baked reasons against it.

Answer 11

Between them and us, the puritans, John Milton, and St. Augustine happened. They were all very sex-phobic and passed that unfortunate disease to all of us.