Ah ... steady ... How do we know this? Because that was one among a parcel of rumours put abroad by King Philip of France, who was deeply indebted to the order and wanted to take control of it. The admission of various nefarious practices were the fruits of Knight taken and tortured into making confessions.
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That aside, there is an aspect of this where homosexuals fall under a false condemnation of guilt by association because, for example, the Templars are bad, the Templars are homosexuals, therefore homosexuals are bad.
Today it's not Templars, it'll be something else, but the popular media delights in this kind of thing because they can demonise people or a particular social class simply by implying they are associated with certain 'unsavoury' practices.
One instant example is that the media often treats homosexuality and paedophilia as synonymous. Personally I'm of the opinion that the majority of paedophiles are, like rapists, heterosexual.
If there is a situation where closet homosexuals have access to privilege and power (and I'm thinking the English public school system and the corridors of the Vatican), it's a situation that we heterosexuals have engendered through our prejudice and ignorance.
Lastly, let's get one thing straight: If sex with someone of the same gender is the definition of homosexuality, then from the ancient world on, same sex associated was tolerated, indeed, it was not questioned.
The hysteria about the debate today is founded on religious intolerance. And I rather think that depends on a particular and rather literalist and blunt interpretation of Scripture.
Yes ofcourse you are right that this could have been a trumped up charge put against the knights Templars, however I think it could be true based on following evidence.
The Quran says some people started to practice majic which involves devil worship which in turn involves wicked evil practices (that pleases the devil) and it's conceivable that the elite who would want to utilise the power of majic would indulge in it
The elite, being the ruling class that they are, can also practice this evil with impunity and have ample places to do it under-cover.
It's apparent that secret orders, including the knights templars who may now go by the name of freemasons or other orders, have managed to remain in the helm of power, pulling the strings from the shadows; their 'one eye' symbol being everywhere, indicates this.
Now if you have these secret orders puppeteering, then controversial issues like homosexuality cannot be trusted to be backed up with evidences such as it being in the genes etc as the scientists will have a conflict of interest (of having to obey their superiors conflicted with unbiased conclusions) hence compromising their studies and conclusions
So if no sound basis for acceptance of homosexuality can be trusted, then in the eyes of the theists at least, homosex (other than a natural inclination to the same sex for people with hormone imbalances) will just be a perversion, or one of the more 'evil' perversions that satanists would do as this deed will indeed please the devil
This begs the question, why is it being promoted in society like it is nowadays?
Could it be to do with the elite trying to spread evil in the culture on the orders of their devil master?
Or maybe the elite just want to create a utopia in the way they like it with their favourite 'perverted' practices too and trying to make it mainstream?
Yes homosexuality has been practiced by a minority in the past since the time of Hud (as) however it has never been promoted to a society by the ruling class and it has always been looked upon as a perversion
