What Would the Greeks Have Thought of Gay Marriage?

Contents:

• WERE THE SPARTANS GAY? HOMOSEXUALY SPARTA, ANCIENT GREECE
• WHAT WOULD THE GREEKS HAVE THOUGHT OF GAY MARRIAGE?
• THE MYTH OF THE ANCIENT GREEK ‘GAY UTOPIA’
• MOSW CY HALL BANS GAY LGBT PARA FOR 14TH YEAR A ROW
• MEET POLAND’S OUT GAY LAWMAKER FIGHTG FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS
• WERE THE SPARTANS GAY? HOMOSEXUALY SPARTA, ANCIENT GREECE
• THE MYTH OF THE ANCIENT GREEK ‘GAY UTOPIA’

WERE THE SPARTANS GAY? HOMOSEXUALY SPARTA, ANCIENT GREECE

The state of Sparta ma homosexual relatnships mandatory. The homoerotic element nnot be entirely ignored. Lbian and gay women’s relatnships Ancient Sparta.

Gay men and women ancient Sparta. Heterosexualy and homosexualy were both enuraged and expected at different stag life, wh homosexualy, mon wh prevalent ancient Greek thought, beg seen as the ial form of love and heterosexualy as sential for procreatn. For example, the Greek Orthodox Archdce lists homosexualy bi fornitn, adultery, abortn and abive sexual behavr as “immoral and appropriate forms of behavr and of themselv, and also bee they attack the stutn of marriage and the fay.

” It adds that, “the Orthodox Church believ that homosexual behavr is a s. ” Siarly, the Assembly of Canonil Orthodox Bishops of the Uned Stat, clar, “Like adultery and fornitn, homosexual acts are nmned by Scripture.

WHAT WOULD THE GREEKS HAVE THOUGHT OF GAY MARRIAGE?

Whereas marriage between a man and a woman is a sacred stutn ordaed by God, homosexual unn is not. Orthodox and Gay, a webse and onle platform for LGBTQ Orthodox Christians seekg support and refuge.

It is ironic that the proponents of homosexualy so often pot to ancient Greece as their paradigm bee of s high state of culture and s partial acceptance of homosexualy or, more accurately, perasty.

Though some ancient Greeks did wre paeans to homosexual love, did not occur to any of them to propose homosexual relatnships as the basis for marriage their societi. The only homosexual relatnship that was accepted was between an adult male and a male adolcent.

THE MYTH OF THE ANCIENT GREEK ‘GAY UTOPIA’

The ia that someone was a “homosexual” for life or had this feature as a permanent inty would have stck them as more than odd.

MOSW CY HALL BANS GAY LGBT PARA FOR 14TH YEAR A ROW

In other words, “homosexualy”, for which a word Greek did not exist at the time (or any other language until the late 19th century), was purely transory. Homosexual relatnships between mature male adults were not accepted. This is hardly the ialized homosexual paradise that ntemporary “gay” advot harken back to an attempt to legimize behavr that would have sndalized the Greeks.

The very ia of Nature and natural law arose as a product of this philosophy, whose first and perhaps greatt exponents, Socrat and Plato, were unambiguo their nmnatn of homosexual acts as unnatural. “That which evil the soul” – which Plato clus homosexual terurse – will ultimately rult polil disorr. Homosexual marriage would have stck Aristotle as an absurdy sce you uld not found a poly on s necsarily sterile relatns.

There is no parable nmnatn of adultery homosexual marriage Aristotle bee such an stutn would have been nceivable to him, as has been throughout history until recent tim. A homosexual hoehold would not make sense to Aristotle sce uld not nta parents and all the generatnal relatns that sprg om them, which mak the polis possible.

MEET POLAND’S OUT GAY LAWMAKER FIGHTG FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS

The worst thg is that she said this to actually fort me, " Albatros year, Albatros (their artistic name) published 'Flty Boy', a book scribg the challeng that genr queer children face Greece, a largely nservative untry where the fluential Orthodox Church teach that beg gay is a s. "Of urse I felt the prsure to change, " said Albatros, g an artistic name and wearg a sparkly black face mask to ensure the book is not lked to a certa this month banned so-lled nversn therapy for mors, practic aimed at supprsg a person’s sexual orientatn or genr inty and which health experts and the lbian, gay, bisexual and trans muny worldwi have nmned as psychologilly harmful and, New Zealand and France crimalised nversn therapy earlier this year, jog a growg number of untri to outlaw the Mister Msokakis, who is tryg to break away om the tradnal image of a nservative lear and fac electns 2023, last year appoted a mtee to draft a natnal strategy for improvg LGBTQI+ rights.

"I know that much remas to be done, " he said on May 17, the ternatnal day agast homophobia and transphobia.

"The ernment has also repelled a ban on blood donatns by gay men and has been trag civil servants on LGBTQI issu, said Msotakis's chief enomic adviser Alexis Greek LGBTQI+ muny has weled the reforms over the past , cludg allowg civil partnership among same-sex upl 2015 and the legal regnn of genr inty 2017. ATHENS – Greece legalized gay civil unns Tuday spe opposn om the Church and a rebelln by some right-wg members of the lg aln. Lawmakers voted 193 favor vers 56 agast the long-awaed reform, followg a heated 10-hour bate which supporters of the bill — some wearg rabow gay pri badg — trad barbs wh opponents.

WERE THE SPARTANS GAY? HOMOSEXUALY SPARTA, ANCIENT GREECE

Outsi parliament, gay rights mpaigners gathered wh banners readg “Love is the Law” and “All I want for Christmas is Equaly. Activists say regnn of same-sex civil partnerships is an important step towards gag greater acceptance a untry where the Orthodox Church still holds sway and where reports of homophobic vlence have creased recent years.

While many untri already allow same-sex marriage, Greece is one of the last European Unn stat to legalize gay civil unns. Prsure for change creased after the European Court of Human Rights led two years ago that was discrimatory for the untry to exclu gay upl om existg legislatn givg tax, pensn and herance rights to unmarried heterosexuals.

Homophobic remarks by clergymen fueled the bate ahead of Tuday’s vote. Bishop Seraphim of Piras lled homosexualy “unnatural lewdns” while the ntroversial Bishop Amvross of Kalavryta orred church his dce to sound funeral bells “ mourng” over the bill’s expected passage. Inpennt Greeks MP Vasilis Kokkalis said gay civil unns would unrme tradnal fay life.

THE MYTH OF THE ANCIENT GREEK ‘GAY UTOPIA’

“This will allow gay people to be more visible, ” said Nancy Papathanasu, a board member at the OLKE lbian and gay anizatn.

The persistent dream of a “gay utopia” is one of the nstants gay and lbian historil imaggs over the last 200 years. One place particular attracted the longgs of gays and lbians.

This was the world of ancient Greece, a supposed gay paradise which same-sex love flourished whout discrimatn.