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To: elfman2
homosexual relationships were encouraged among Spartan troops.

yipee!!! That means every homosexual today is a "Spartan"..... as well as Lincoln...and Jesus....and all the most creative artists, poets, writers, composers....in fact taking it up the rear is normal and sex with women is abnormal...

whew!... I'm glad that's all cleared up.... Now we can deal with Global Warming.

Today's homosexuals have as much in common with a Spartan as a Volkswagen has with a F-22 Raptor.

Self-centered, promiscuous, effeminate men with abnormal sexual identification ..... you're thinking of Macedonians and the movie "Alexander".... this is a fantasy movie about guys that kick a$$. ... not poke it.... but nice try.

20 posted on 03/13/2007 9:01:32 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
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To: Dick Vomer

It is splendid that you are a scholar of Spartan military sex habits. Tell us more.


22 posted on 03/13/2007 9:10:39 PM PDT by Torie (The real facts can sometimes be inconvenient things)
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To: Dick Vomer

Blistering post.Great job by the way.


35 posted on 03/13/2007 9:53:54 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
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To: Dick Vomer
Self-centered, promiscuous, effeminate men with abnormal sexual identification ..... you're thinking of Macedonians and the movie "Alexander".... this is a fantasy movie about guys that kick a$$. ... not poke it.... but nice try.

LOL. Are you channelling Ann Coulter?

37 posted on 03/13/2007 11:21:22 PM PDT by Maynerd
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To: Dick Vomer; Torie
this is a fantasy movie about guys that kick a$$. ... not poke it.... but nice try.

Right. Fokes who ain’t let’n group like yours do their think’n for’m must be with them queers…Sparta

Our poor knowledge on Spartan traditions is the result of Sparta's secrecy. Most modern theories are based on assumptions derived from ancient sources and parallels drawn between Sparta and contemporary Dorian Greek societies such as Crete. Some scholars assume that the custom of pederasty paralleled the mentoring relations between Spartan males and adolescent boys, common in Dorian societies. Some of the ancient scholars seem to have supported an opposing view: Xenophon writes that Lycurgus efficiently managed to cultivate chaste pederasty in the Spartan society.[16] This however tends to be viewed as an attempt of praise towards Sparta, and not necessarily as a sincere remark. Aristotle also wrote that Sparta belonged to the type of military society that was based on heterosexual relationship, unlike other Greek states of his time. However, an examination of the historical details reveals that "references to particular homosexual attachments of Spartans are conspicuous even by Greek standards".[16] Cicero furthermore asserts that, "The Lacedaemonians, while they permit all things except outrage (hubris, referring here to homosexual coitus) in the love of youths, certainly distinguish the forbidden by a thin wall of partition from the sanctioned, for they allow embraces and a common couch to lovers.'[17] In antiquity it was thought that a youth was expected to find himself an older lover, and that Pederasty, a social practice common throughout most of Greece, was especially so in Sparta, where the ephors fined any eligible man who did not have chaste relationships with youths.[18]

38 posted on 03/14/2007 5:27:35 AM PDT by elfman2 (An army of amateurs doing the media's job.)
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To: Dick Vomer
Now we can deal with Global Warming.

Global Warming is gay!

44 posted on 02/09/2008 10:09:19 AM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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