I always love how people take historical events out of context to justify their current politics … because if you know your history, then you know that no one thing brought down Rome, and toleration of homosexuality was not even in the top 100 reasons why Rome failed.

Cultures fall… and they fall for numerous reasons… the Hittites were not a culture that was particularly tolerant of homosexuality, but when was the last time you ran into someone carrying a Hittite passport?

If we consider that every ancient civilization has “fallen” by some definition or other, then it goes to prove that every civilization that “embraced homosexuality” (or danced the hokey pokey) eventually fell. Of course, so did those who didn’t “embrace homosexuality”.

Paula,

Thanks for the example that puts unto perspective the problem with assigning blame for the end of specific political entities.

just sayin’

I’ve heard far too many people speak of the “historical fact” that every great civilization that embraces homosexuals will fall soon. Anyone know of any historian who makes that claim, or any good source that documents the alleged facts behind that claim?

There was a report that Uganda was going to more or less give away drilling rights in a new round of leases this year to the largest, most-prosperous Russian Oil company, Lukoil. Supposedly, Uganda had made a deal to buy 6 Russian Sukhoi Su-30Mk2 multirole fighter jets ($300 million). And the oil rights were to sweeten the deal. Once that got out the Ugandan government started denying it all over the place. Though I read one ministers remarks which more or less said, ‘hey, why not.’ In short it appears that the Museveni government would rather buy weapons than care for the needs of his people.
(Source: Oil & Gas Journal, 12 April 2010)