Mongolian conqueror Genghis Khan banned gay sex, experts say

AP ^ | 2007-08-30

[GeorgeKant]

BEIJING, Aug 30 (AP) -- Gay sex was punishable by death under Genghis Khan's rule.

That was among the findings of Chinese researchers who spent more than a year compiling the legendary Mongolian conqueror's code of laws, the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday.

His early 13th century empire stretched across Asia all the way to central Europe.

Article 48 of the code said men who "committed sodomy shall be put to death," according to experts at a research institute in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia.

The experts at the Research Institute of Ancient Mongolian Laws and Sociology said the ban was put into place because Genghis Khan wanted to expand the Mongolian population, which was about 1.5 million at the time. The rival Song Dynasty, which dominated today's central China, was 100 million strong, Xinhua said.

The code also said that damaging grassland with unauthorized excavations or starting fires was punishable by death, Xinhua said, without providing details.

Experts compiled the Mongolian code based on historical texts, including Marco Polo's travelogue, Xinhua said. The original text was lost more than 600 years ago.

[SevenofNine]

Let me be first to say

KHANNNNNNNNNN

[RichInOC]

So what’s Mongol for “Rule One...”

[Charlespg]

Go Genghis Khan

[wardaddy]

I’m starting to like him more

we can venerate him anyhow ...being non-peckerwoody and all

[elhombrelibre]

Now, those who look askew at homosexual behavior are treated like they’re the queers and diagnosed by any cliche monger as homophobes. The thing is this. If you’re going to be a homosexual be a Democrat or a Ron Paul voter, which is slightly better on domestic issues.

[monkapotamus]

[Pilsner]

Although not remebered as such in the West, Genghis Khan was a lawgiver, as well as a conquerer. I believe one law of his forbade a man to drink to the point of intoxication — more thn once per lunar month.

[SevenofNine]

HEY MONK Yup KHANNNN LOL

[cripplecreek]

Damn Mongorians

[sure_fine]

Mongolian conqueror Genghis Khan banned gay sex, experts say

experts = gay activists

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

I wonder if we can get some sample of his DNA from the gravesite/tomb and clone him!

We can sure use him! Turn him loose in Iraq and look the other way!

Heh!

[Red Badger]

He probably didn’t have a “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in HIS military.......

[RetiredArmy]

Sounds like my kind of guy. But, then again, the Muzzies believe the same thing and these slobbering socialist, homosexual, Marxists dimocrats love them Muzzies.

[Red Badger]

Look the other way? hell, it should be on Pay-per-View!..........

[SIDENET]

I guess that “Log Cabin Mongolians” were out of the question.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

"Razed villages in a manner reminiscent of Jengis Khan"

P-town, Key West, San Fran.

[gusopol3]

was there a Chinese word that was some kind of transliteration of “Sodomy?” Did Khan know the Jewish story?

[Red Badger]

The story of Sodom was well over 3000 years old at his time, so he probably did hear it........