Ya gotta love this: Gay Unions Sanctioned in Medieval Europe

[cali]

Historical evidence, including legal documents and gravesites, can be interpreted as supporting the prevalence of homosexual relationships hundreds of years ago, said Allan Tulchin of Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania.


If accurate, the results indicate socially sanctioned same-sex unions are nothing new, nor were they taboo in the past.


“Western family structures have been much more varied than many people today seem to realize," Tulchin writes in the September issue of the Journal of Modern History. "And Western legal systems have in the past made provisions for a variety of household structures.”


For example, he found legal contracts from late medieval France that referred to the term "affrèrement," roughly translated as brotherment. Similar contracts existed elsewhere in Mediterranean Europe, Tulchin said.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070827/sc_livescience/gayunionssanctionedinmedievaleurope


Watch the fundies freak out over this!

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Wouldn't surprise me - so much of American history is give to us through the myopic

eyes of nostalgically naive Christian pietism and holiness movements.

[Fridays Child]

2. This is obviously a primary cause of the bubonic plague epidemic that devastated medieval Europe.

Just trying to get a jump on the RW fundie response. :)

[Orrex]

4. Don't forget the London fire of 1666

Who else to blame but those godless homosexuals?

[Fridays Child]

5. Goodness, yes!

:rofl:

[DBoon]

7. and Haley's comet

God was not happy with Europe!

[BreweryYardRat]

3. I suspect these guys were the ones wealthy enough to buy off the local Church officials.

It's always the rich ones who get special treatment.

[Monk06]

6. "one bread, one wine and one purse" Best Pride slogan evah !!! n/t