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12997925:yoski. said:Dude, I live in Africa for most of the year. I am well aware of the human rights abuses directed at LBQTUZNAWUCOAS. I did not condone them. But comparing a limited few incidents of discrimination to thousands of years of enslavement and wholesale destruction of people by the billion and their culture is nothing compared to what homosexuals have faced.
A limited few incidents of discrimination? You're wrong again.
149 BCE or earlier – During the Roman Republic, the Lex Scantinia imposed penalties on those who committed a sex crime (stuprum) against a freeborn youth; infrequently mentioned or enforced, it may also have been used to prosecute male citizens who willingly took the passive role in homosexual relations.[15] It is unclear whether the penalty was death or a fine. For an adult male citizen to desire and engage in same-sex relations was considered natural and socially acceptable, as long as his partner was a male prostitute, slave or infamis, a person excluded from the legal protections accorded a citizen. In the Imperial period, the Lex Scantinia was revived by Domitian as part of his program of judicial and moral reform.[16]
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_LGBT_history