"You shall not be a corrupter of boys, nor like unto such." St. Barnabas ("Epistle
of St. Barnabas" c. 70-100 A.D.)
"It is well that they should be cut off from the lusts of the world, since 'every
lust wars against the spirit' and 'neither fornicators, nor sodomites will inherit the
kingdom of God.'" St. Clement of Rome ("First Epistle To
The Corinthians," c. 96 A.D.)
"Some polluted themselves by lying with males. The Greeks, O King, follow
debased practices in intercourse with males, or with mothers, sisters, and
daughters. Yet, they, in turn impute their monstrous impurity to the
Christians." St. Aristides ("Apology," c. 125 A.D.)
"Oh, if placed on that lofty watch-tower, you could gaze into the secret
places--if you could open the closed doors of sleeping chambers and recall their dark
recesses to the perception of sight--you would behold things done by immodest persons
which no chaste eye could look upon; you would see what even to see is a crime; you would
see what people embruted with the madness of vice deny that they have done, and yet hasten
to do--men with frenzied lusts rushing upon men, doing things which afford no
gratification even to those who do them." St.
Cyprian of Carthage ("Letters" c. 250 A.D.)
"He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the
same time as adulterers." St. Basil the Great ("Letters" c. 367
A.D.)
"All of these affections [in Rom. 1:26-27] . . . were vile, but chiefly
the mad lust after males; for the soul is more the sufferer in sins, and more dishonored
than the body in diseases." St.
John Chrysostom ("Homilies on Romans" c. 391 A.D.)
"Those shameful acts against nature, such as were committed in Sodom, ought
everywhere and always to be detested and punished. If all nations were to do such things,
they would be held guilty of the same crime by the law of God, which has not made men so
that they should use one another in this way." St. Augustine
("Confessions" c. 400 A.D.)
