2nd April 2003, 1:42 AM
Quote:Rome and Greece were great civilizations but neither was successful. Both were eventually destroyed by outside invasions, but as any student of history knows, a great empire can only fall from without when it is weakened from within. The societies of those civilizations, when they fell, were in total collapse. Rome and Greece were failures, and massive ones at that. Homosexuality obviously isn't a chief cause of that decayed moral structure but it almost certainly didn't help matters. Let's also remember that Roman culture, in addition to hosting widespread homosexuality, also was a common ground for incest. Incest was as accepted as homosexuality, and rape was rather frequent as well. Am I supposed to accept incest and rape as acceptable just because the Romans did? If one must accept homosexuality as normal and acceptable on those grounds, one must also accept those on the same grounds.
Wha?? You're listing rape and incest with homosexuality in immortality simply because they happened to be part of an empire that eventually collapsed? That's silly logic.
Let's also not forget that under the law of entropy, everything must break down and come to an end anyway.
Quote:History aside, our culture, and especially our homosexual culture is much different than ancient Rome. In Rome, homosexuality was a common practice. In modern times it is not common, at least on such a level. I'll use America as an example for posterity. Homosexual activity today is less taboo than previously, but it is still an action that most, myself included, do not approve of. It is an action that many find immoral, and the practice of it damages our morals. We are told that we should accept behavior that we find repulsive. That itself damages society, especially when that acceptance is forced on us.
Not everyone is repulsed by homosexuality. Homosexuality becoming accepted as a lifestyle by everyone would kill both these birds with one stone: homosexuals, as you claim in your generalization, wouldn't get their kicks by flaunting their alternative lifestyle to others, it being less deviant, while at the same time, the rest of society wouldn't be forced to witness something that disgusts them, as it wouldn't disgust them in the first place.