Comments on: Friday Silliness – Gay Fathers

By: Jody

Jody — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:11:02 +0000

Randi, Alexander spread Greek culture, education and technology across most of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. He did kill many — but he no doubt saved many more. Our culture wouldn’t exist today if it wasn’t for what he did.

History is rarely black and white.

By: Randi Schimnosky

Randi Schimnosky — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:35:57 +0000

I wouldn’t include Alexander the Great on this list. Anyone who went around waging war on innocent people is not a benefit to society.

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:40:17 +0000

Disappointed:

Socrates: If we are to believe Plato, then Socrates was same-sex attracted, perhaps bisexual but, as I phrased it above, “at least not heterosexual”.

Aristotle: I am not able to definitively tie this down. While several sources I relied on for my initial thread claim that Aristotle was same-sex attracted, others do not. So I will scratch him.

In his place let’s put a Greek about whom there seems to be concensus (though his opinions on homosexuality changed during his life):

Plato – Father of Logic

Newton – Issac Newton is a bit more difficult. Some claim that he was a homosexual, others that he was asexual. But in either case, he was decidedly not heterosexual in any traditional sense. And those who claim that procreation is the sole basis of contribution to society would have to include Newton in the “no contribution” column. This is also the case with Tesla.

By: Noa Resare

Noa Resare — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:45:04 +0000

Carolus Linnaeus – the father of botanics

By: Paul Stevens

Paul Stevens — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:02:21 +0000

Don’t forget good old Oscar:

Oscar Wilde – (Arguably) Father of Wit

And possibly:
Shakespeare – Father of Literature

By: Cate

Cate — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 04:09:13 +0000

Fun list!

Here’s one more:

Florence Nightingale, Mother of Modern Nursing

By: Emily K

Emily K — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 02:15:22 +0000

I’d call Sappho the mother of female love poetry.

By: Disappointed in Rudy

Disappointed in Rudy — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 01:58:36 +0000

Since when are Aristotle, Socrates and Newton gay?

Anyway, Sappho, mother of erotic literature?