I strongly suspect that the real historic reason for taboos against homosexuality boiled down to two concerns in roughly this order:
(1) Keeping birth rates up in order to raise armies and work forces. Agrarian civilizations derived power largely from their demographic vitality. There are actual references to this in the Bible if I recall correctly -- about your children being as arrows in a quiver, etc. Opting out of fertility was to those civilizations akin to draft dodging or not paying taxes.
(2) Somewhat legitimate sanitation and health concerns before the advent of antibiotics, condoms, etc. -- since some homosexual behaviors are higher risk in this regard. Keep in mind that what today would be a minor infection might be a death sentence back them.
#1 is obsolete. Industrial and post-industrial civilizations derive power from brains and infrastructure, not raw population.
#2 is obsolete if you have an educated population with access to condoms and health care.
If "dysgenics" ever becomes an actual problem we can just fix it with genetic engineering... which of course would require confronting both the left and the right. The left would oppose it because it's not "natural" (no GMO!), while the right would consider it "playing God."
(1) Keeping birth rates up in order to raise armies and work forces. Agrarian civilizations derived power largely from their demographic vitality. There are actual references to this in the Bible if I recall correctly -- about your children being as arrows in a quiver, etc. Opting out of fertility was to those civilizations akin to draft dodging or not paying taxes.
(2) Somewhat legitimate sanitation and health concerns before the advent of antibiotics, condoms, etc. -- since some homosexual behaviors are higher risk in this regard. Keep in mind that what today would be a minor infection might be a death sentence back them.
#1 is obsolete. Industrial and post-industrial civilizations derive power from brains and infrastructure, not raw population.
#2 is obsolete if you have an educated population with access to condoms and health care.
If "dysgenics" ever becomes an actual problem we can just fix it with genetic engineering... which of course would require confronting both the left and the right. The left would oppose it because it's not "natural" (no GMO!), while the right would consider it "playing God."