Comments on: Genghis Kahn Not Down With The Gays http://www.queerty.com/genghis-kahn-not-down-with-the-gays-20070830/ Free of an agenda. Except that gay one. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:08:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mr. B http://www.queerty.com/genghis-kahn-not-down-with-the-gays-20070830/#comment-18022 Mr. B Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:52:25 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/queerty/genghis-kahn-not-down-with-the-gays-20070830/#comment-18022 Is there any verification that Khan's law could have been the first of its kind? In the ancient world, where reproduction and survival were held in high regard, homosexuality was a punishable offense in many societies. Jewish law wasn't written the way it appears in Leviticus to be picky--it was all about your people not dying out in the desert. Doesn't really carry the same weight as anti-gay legislation in the modern world. All of that to say, I'm not sure why this is so shocking. And it's sure not the same thing as anti-gay legislation in the modern Western(ized) world. Is there any verification that Khan’s law could have been the first of its kind? In the ancient world, where reproduction and survival were held in high regard, homosexuality was a punishable offense in many societies. Jewish law wasn’t written the way it appears in Leviticus to be picky–it was all about your people not dying out in the desert. Doesn’t really carry the same weight as anti-gay legislation in the modern world.

All of that to say, I’m not sure why this is so shocking. And it’s sure not the same thing as anti-gay legislation in the modern Western(ized) world.

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