![]() In the 1300s, the heretical reform sect of the Lollards in England cited priestly celibacy as a cause of homosexuality in society. The same condemnation against homosexuality is reiterated in penitential manuals and again by Saint Thomas Aquinas in the 1200s. Saint Hildegard of Bingen in the 1100s wrote against lesbian acts in her work Scivias. In the middle of the 1000’s you have Saint Peter Damian’s book Liber Gomorrhianus circulating with a crying condemnation of both homosexuality and masturbation among the clergy. Unfortunately for him, the Christian and liturgical norms never reveal the slightest tolerance for homosexual acts. There is ample evidence of homosexuality in the medieval era. Adelphopoesis or Affrèrement was Not Homoeroticīoswell’s analysis fails when we recall that both Catholic Europe and Orthodox Byzantium punished homosexuality with death (Byzantine codes of law call for convicted homosexual men to be burned). David and Jonathan or Sergius and Bacchus are “proof” that religious male friends were secret lovers between the pages of history. Regrettably, modern scholars feel that sexuality must be the incentive for any relationship in history. ![]() They are mentioned in the Greek liturgy of a delphopoesis, and Boswell argues that they were likely an early same-sex pair joined together in homoeroticism. These two men were known in Byzantine history to be holy men with a great brotherly affection for one another. To muddy the waters, same-sex marriage advocates have coupled Saint Sergius and Saint Bacchus as the patron saints of this alleged arrangement. Affrèrement allowed two men to share living quarters, pool their finances, and have recognition from the state and church as an economic unit. Adelphopoesis most certainly does not translate as “same-sex union.”Īlong the same lines, Allan Tulchin in his article “Same-Sex Couples Creating Households in Old Regime France: The Uses of the Affrèrement,” ( Journal of Modern History: September 2007) made his case that Latin liturgy of affrèrement (Latin title is Ordo ad fratres faciendum, literally “Order for the making of brothers”) was a medieval “same-sex union” recognized by Europe and the Church. You don’t have to be a great Greek scholar to get the agenda. Now Boswell translated adelphopoesis as “same-sex union,” and made the case that these were homosexual unions sanctioned by the Church. Adelphos means “brother.” Poesis means “making.” So the term in Greek literally means “brother-making.” Same Sex Marriage Liturgy = Adelphopoesis?īoswell’s argument hinges on the existence of a liturgical ritual called adelphopoiesis. This is the claim of the homosexual historian John Boswell in his book Same Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe (Chicago). ![]() Saint Sergius and Saint Bachus have been co-opted as Patrons of Same-Sex Marriage.
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