Gone Greek& the Farce That Launched a 1000 Dips

Boise WeeklyAugust 03, 2009

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From what I've heard, a fella testifying before the Senate State Affairs Committee a couple of weeks ago claimed homosexuality led to the downfall of the ancient Greeks. I'm conveying secondhand info here because I wasn't at the hearing. It's not because I can't sit through hours of blabbery with the likes of Dennis Mansfield, Gerry Sweet and Bryan Fischer, it's just that I'd rather be repeatedly run over by a septic tank pump truck than do so. So, as to how dozens of homophobic lumpkins testified, I put my faith in more diligent reporters than I'll ever be--which is how I heard a fella claimed homosexuality led to the downfall of the ancient Greeks.

It's just too bad there aren't any of them around to explain exactly how homosexuality lead to their downfall, isn't it? Really, a fella can get away with saying almost anything he wants when it concerns a civilization that's been gone for 23 centuries. For instance, that guy who testified for the marriage amendment could just as easily blamed ancient Jews for Greece's downfall, if it were Jews he had his bitch with. Or he might have claimed blacks came up from Africa with an agenda to bring Greece to its knees, and who would have argued? It's not like the state house was full of Greek scholars the day he made his argument.

So no, I can't prove homosexuality didn't bring down ancient Greece, anymore than that fella can prove it did. But I can say this: if gays truly caused the downfall of ancient Greece, they took their sweet time doing it, considering there run of over 1,000 years from Odysseus to the last of the Ptolemys. That says to me, even if homosexuals are out to cause America's downfall we have about eight centuries to think about it--like, before we open a Pandora's Box full of Midas touches, Swords of Damocles and Achille's Heels.

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Gone Greek& the Farce That Launched a 1000 Dips

From what I've heard, a fella testifying before the Senate State Affairs Committee a couple of weeks ago claimed homosexuality led to the downfall of the ancient Greeks. I'm conveying secondhand info here because I wasn't at the hearing. It's not because I can't sit through hours of blabbery with the likes of Dennis Mansf...

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