Positively No Shoe Tapping Allowed!
Posted on 09/01/2007 5:21:19 PM PDT by 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.
We have apparently learned nothing since the 13th century.
We have apparently learned nothing since the 13th century.
Correction: he banned not gay sex, but homosexuality, therefore no “expert” opinion exist here.
Sorry AP, Genghis Khan needed an army of warriors, and population increase; not an army of homosexuals, and population decrease!
If Genghis Khan got on his best pony and rode three hard days to his right, he’d be approaching my left flank!
CORRECTION: The dude banned ‘pederasty’ not ‘gaiety’. I bet he would have banned euphemisms for depravity!
No unauthorized holes in the ground? (where horses break legs, injure riders)
No unauthorized fires (which might burn the grass/food for the horses--like a prairie fire, as well as give away the position/size of the camp)?
Everything aimed at keeping an equestrian culture on the move. The rules make perfect sense.
The Angles and Saxons had two offenses punishable by death; homosexuality and cowardice.
Been there, done that. Ever heard what his grandson Hulegu did to the Assassins at Alamut? Or how he destroyed Baghdad in 1258?
jinjis?
It is almost certain that Ghengis Khan was familiar with Christian Scripture. At least one of the lesser hordes that united under him had converted to Nestorian Christianity (the variety indigeneous to Iraq and Iran, now mostly found in Chicago, which separated from the rest of the Church over objection to the Third Ecumenical Council). That horde had khans with name like “John’ and “George”.
Ghengis Khan’s successor in China, Kublia Khan, sent a Nestorian monk to Europe to propose an alliance between the Christians and the Mongols against Islam. Alas, he ended up in Paris, where the threat of Islam was not so serious as in the Christian East. If he’d turned up in Constantinople, history might have been very different.
Every reliable source I know speaks of Muslims having a hankering for young boys.
They call the man on the receiving end a homosexual and put him to death. The man “giving” is not considered a homosexual. A young boy is safe because he is not “of age” and cannot technically consent.
Anybody, please correct me if I’m misinformed.
Under the Great Khan, all religions were tolerated. A Shamanist himself, there were Nestorian Christians, Buddhists and Muslims in his camps.
Genghis is one of the greatest men who ever lived.
He also banned the use of torture.
He must have been a closet homo himself. At least, that’s the conventional wisdom in the “gay” community ...
He conquered much of Asia. Maybe he did so by chanelling energy that some groups want poured into sodomy into fighting?
Are you or have you ever been a Hasher?
No. I am, however, a long-time Monty Python fan.
:’) BTW, could you send some info about that 30,000 ton grave monument carved (but never moved) in China during the (I think) middle ages? Thanks.
Lots of Monty Python fans in the Hash you know. Thought you might be one of us.
thanks!
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