[theanonymouslurker]

There is one answer, based upon serious evidence, one that has always been passionately denied by the Protestants. In 1551, a Catholic controversialist revealed that the archives of the city of Noyon, Calvin's birth place, contain the record of a condemnation against Calvin, at age 18, for sodomy.

Ooooh boy. That's gonna leave a mark.

[boatbums]

a Catholic controversialist revealed...

This might give some people a hint of the motivation and malice for making such information public if it were true. It also brings into question the honesty. I am not a follower of Calvin but I wonder if he, as a former Catholic, experienced any form of abuse from his own priests. It sounds par for the course to blame the victim, that part hasn't changed much. But we do know it "takes two to tango",so they say. I wonder who was his "partner" in this henious act since he was a teenager when it supposedly happened?

One lesson I remember from the nuns is, "Clean off your own doorstep before you try to clean off someone else's.".