Reply #26: You're asking me? It's just that other scholars have... [View All]

found more sources and taken a closer look at his sources. I'm not familiar enough with the subject to come down on any one side.

The argument is amongst the experts, but it seems to be a raging one and nothing is "proven" until they come to more of an agreement. At any rate, while there is a lot of historical reference to homosexuality, there seems to be little to actual homosexual marriage.

As I mentioned in other posts, marriage through the ages seems to have been primarily a mechanism to assign paternity and little else. Somewhere around the 7th century the shurch stepped and fooled around with the idea, but I don't know how many significant changes they made. Then, in the 19th Century all hell seems to have broken loose when the West abandoned arranged marriages and all sorts of legalisms started surrounding it.

I suspect, but cannot prove, that Boswell was more of an advocate for his position than a scholar. Warren, at least, doesn't pretend to be a scholer, just opinionated.