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[felis_ultharus]

You know, the problem with the religious right is that they only listen to their own kind, so it's impossible to point out how unbelievably wrong they are.

I mean, take the criticism that gays, lesbians, and bisexuals are destroying civilization. A short list of well-known men-who-liked-men and women-who-liked-women could include Sappho, Plato, Socrates, Agathon, Julius Caeser, Augustus Caeser, Emperor Hadrian, Richard the Lionhearted, King James I, King Louis XIII, Michelangelo -- half the Renaissance -- Christopher Marlowe, Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Wolfe, Gertrude Stein, EM Forester, and countless modern writers, philosophers, artists, and actors, as well as the odd major scientist (Alan M. Turing). We could probably add Shakespeare, Shelley, and Leonardo Da Vinci to the list, and some people would even throw in Christ.

In other words, we invented Western Civilization. If anyone has a right to take it apart, it's certainly us.

(Let it never be said that I'm one-sided in my arguments. It's true that a queer painted the Sistine Chapel, but American fundamentalist protestants probably have the lock the black velvet Elvis.)

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[em-fish.livejournal.com]

Seconded. We learned in Latin that half of the crap that those Roman blowhards had to say was tabloid journalism at best and outright character assassination at worst. For more examples, see Ovid. That guy didn't like anyone.