Is it tied in any way to backlash to the Romans? It seems to randomly pop up in Christian Rome and then percolate across the Abrahamic faiths from there [1].
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminalization_of_homosexua...
I do appreciate the idea that it may have been prompted by anti-homosexual moral panics though. That resonates.
I suppose I’m curious about how those panics arose. It seems to have gone from generally accepted to generally feared in an ambiguous way.
How old are the relevant lines in Leviticus 18 and 20? From what I can tell, homosexuality wasn’t referenced in the first versions from 800 BCE [1].
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Hebrew_Leviticus_Scrol...
Am I missing something?
If you’re looking at the modern map, it’s largely one of Islam.