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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (195722)7/25/2004 2:12:09 PM
From: Thomas M.  Read Replies (1) of 1583415
 
Counterpoint:

A brief commentary on John Boswell's Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

In his book, Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell, a self-avowedly "gay" activist and historian, employs considerable intellectual legerdemain, purporting to "discover" in Premodern European documents "evidence" that at that time both Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches sanctioned same-gender, sexual relationships, recognizing these as equivalent to marriages.

To establish this thesis, Boswell examines the texts of ceremonies giving church imprimatur to lay spiritual brotherhoods, compares these with Premodern European marriage ceremonies. Boswell then implies that close parallels strongly suggest the Churches recognized and made special allowances for some forms of spiritually commendable, same-gender sexual unions.

However, in terms of both Boswell's presuppositions and his documentary evidence, we believe persuasive reasons can be advanced to cast doubt on his conclusions.

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