tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25196141.post6282613151025673038..comments2024-03-25T15:21:31.016-04:00Comments on Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: The Media Is At It Again.Diana_CThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14223056441901730531noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25196141.post-15507088043640907902022-07-29T18:09:10.780-04:002022-07-29T18:09:10.780-04:00Nothing new with the naming and blaming game. It a...Nothing new with the naming and blaming game. It as old as who knows but here is an example of the good Christians reaction in another time and place. <br /><br />Giovanni di Giovanni (1350 – 1365) is one of the youngest victims of the campaign against sodomy waged in 14th-century Florence., Italy.<br />His persecution came on the heels of the Black Death, the bubonic plague epidemic which had ravaged the city two years earlier. Some of the most influential people of the religious establishment, such as Bernardino of Siena, blamed sodomites for having brought the wrath of God down on the heads of the populace. So, as you can see extremist Christians have blamed the misfortune and disasters that fell upon them on homosexuals for centuries and we have been persecuted and murdered because of their hatred and bigotry. <br />The “remedy” they promoted was to purify the city of evil by means of fire, leading to burnings at the stake and other punishments (red-hot iron) such as that suffered by poor young Giovanni.<br />Di Giovanni was labeled “a public and notorious passive sodomite” and convicted by the Podestà court of being the passive partner of a number of different men. His punishment was to be paraded on the back of an ass, then to be publicly castrated. Finally, he was to have his anus burned with a red-hot iron (or, as the sentence read: “[punished] in that part of the body where he allowed himself to be known in sodomitical practice”) I am Richard Nelson and I approve of this comment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com