Yes, excellently written. R. V. Young is an old academic friend of mine. I didn’t know he was writing for Crisis Magazine.
I was on my phone earlier and couldn’t say more ;-).
There was an article a week or so ago that talked about the various incidents of homosexual “marriage” in Roman sources: those mentioned in this article and a satire of Juvenal. However, that author didn’t make the connection with the persecution of Christians as Mr. Young does.