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Chapter 3

There can be no shift in the morals of a society without first redefining right and wrong. From the
time the first pilgrims landed on America’s shores, until the recent generation, homosexuality has
been viewed by society as deviant, and destructive, sexual behavior. The founding father’s of
America viewed homosexuality as a great sin. George Washington instituted court martial
proceedings against an officer of the Continental Army for the crime of sodomy. Thomas
Jefferson introduced legislation in his home state of Virginia that would have punished
homosexuals by requiring them to be castrated. If you have read the series titled Dragon Flood,
you will realize that neither of these men were Christians, yet they acknowledged Yahweh’s
judgment of homosexuality as abominable and perverse behavior to be right.

In 1828, when Noah Webster published Webster’s Dictionary, the term “Sodomy” was used to
refer to homosexual behavior. Webster’s Dictionary not only was considered authoritative on its
word definitions, but it reflected the moral underpinnings of the nation. The entry for the word
“Sodomy,” although brief, was quite specific.

“Sodomy: A crime against nature.”

The 1833 Encyclopedia Britannica, describing the moral influence of Christianity upon Roman
society, states:

“The nameless crime, which was the disgrace of Greek and Roman civilization was made
punishable by death.”

With these words, the editors of the world’s most renowned encyclopedia declared that
homosexuality was considered in their day to be a disgrace to great civilizations.

In 1952, the American Psychiatric Association listed homosexuality in the DSM (Diagnostics
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) as a “sociopathic personality disturbance.”
[Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders]

The word “sociopathic” is defined as “a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior
is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.”