The charge of Sodomy was made about Calvin during his career as a religious despot in Geneva, Switzerland. It came from his earlier life in France in what was at that time a PROTESTANT area. It was popularized by Jerome Bolsec, a former Carmelite Monk who had joined the so-called 'reform' and gone to live in Geneva. While there Bolsec disagreed with Calvin publicly on a technical issue relating to predestination. Calvin had Bolsec arrested and held in abysmal condition while seeking to have him executed for heresy.
Bolsec was intelligent and articulate. He won the sympathy of the ecclesiastical 'court' that Calvin convened. While they did not all agree with his position, they did not think that he was a danger to the faith in Geneva. Calvin demanded Bolsec's death. The Court would not agree. Then Calvin took a poll of the other Protestant pastors in Switzerland. They refused to exact the death penalty either. In fact, Calvin lost some of his closest friends because of his murderous attitude towards Bolsec. After suffering horrible physical and mental abuse, Bolsec was banished from Geneva and advised to leave Switzerland for his own safety.
He later came to his senses and returned to the Catholic Faith. He then wrote a book on the life of Calvin which frankly repeated every negative comment or charge ever made against the man. The sodomy charge was one of them.
Attempts had been made to verify the sodomy charges against Calvin, but since the events allegedly happened in a Protestant area, there have been charges of cover up and collusion to protect Calvin's 'good name.'
Calvin was in Geneva for several years when some of his fellow 'reformed pastors' WHO HAD ALL MARRIED came to him and showed concern for the fact that he hadn't. They arranged a marriage for him to the widow of another pastor who was older than Calvin. This was a marriage of convenience for both parties.
They had only one son at which point most of Calvin's biographers agree that he had very little to do with his wife. Calvin took no interest in his son who recedes into historical obscurity and is never heard from again. The relationship between Calvin and his wife was described as more like that that of a priest with his housekeeper or of an UNMARRIED MAN LIVING WITH HIS MOTHER.
Who are you quoting?
Yeah, that tends to happen to children who die in infancy.
Your thread and posts are slanderous, crude fiction. The lie is so preposterous you capitalize it! lol.
It's a mark of Calvin's integrity that papists become so enraged by the mere mention of his name. They loathe everything he stood for -- Scriptural truth, Biblical inerrancy, the liberty of the Christian conscience, and the infallible leading of the Holy Spirit.
Calvin took no interest in his son who recedes into historical obscurity and is never heard from again.
Dying in infancy will do that.
Calvin married Idelette de Bure, "the excellent companion of his life." She died in 1549 and Calvin never ceased mourning her. Their only child Jacques, died shortly after he was born.
Here is a better picture of the great reformer and man of God, rather than the trash you've posted...