Neil wrote: So I presume then that all heretics should be executed as well. Calvinist Protestants in continental Europe were considered heretics, & treated the same way as witches in so-called “Christendom." Be careful what you wish for.
Yes.
The application of the principle to the support of a false religion, and the worship of such as are "by nature no gods" does not, however, invalidate the argument that civil magistracy is a divine ordinance.
Neil wrote: Note that since George Spencer (top of the list) allegedly did it with an animal, then w/o more detail, we cannot tell whether the others in the list were actual homosexuals or not.
Noted. All sodomites should be executed. Probably it was biblical fidelity that they must've run out of in 1662.
"Buggery 'comyttid with mankynde or beaste' had been made a capital offence in I533, by 25 Hen. VIII, c. 6. This statute was intended to be in force only until the last day of the subsequent parliament. It was made perpetual in I540 by 32 Hen. VIII c. 3 and modified in I548 by 2 & 3 Edw. VI, c. 29 but these acts were cancelled by Queen Mary's Statute of Repeal I Mar. St. I c. I cl. 3. Thus the continuous history of sodomy as a capital offence dates only from I 562 when the Statute 5 Eliz. c. I 7 revived the Henrician legislation. According to the judgement in Rex v. Wiseman in I718 and the subsequent discussions, the law covered anal penetration of females as well as men, but few prosecutions seem to have been brought for buggering females, or for offences involving animals."
Neil wrote: Virginia was under English jurisdiction at the time, & thinly populated, so surely there must've been a lot more executions back in Merry England.
Theonomy, from theos (god) and nomos (law), is the state of being governed by God or in accord with divine law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theonomy
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=2802632 During the first thirty-five years of the nineteenth century more than fifty men were hanged for sodomy in England. This was less than a seventh of the number of people executed for murder in the same period, though in one year, 1806, there were more executions for sodomy than for murder. Nevertheless, it was the case that in the first third of the nineteenth century trials and executions for sodomy were much commoner than they had been in any earlier period.
John Yurich USA wrote: Why do homosexuals want to shoot off their big mouths that they are homosexual? Over 50 years ago homosexuals kept their mouths shut and did not broadcast that they were homosexual.
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