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Mongolian conqueror Genghis Khan banned gay sex, experts say
AP ^ | 2007-08-30

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.


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To: GeorgeKant

We have apparently learned nothing since the 13th century.


21 posted on 09/01/2007 6:10:31 PM PDT by aristotleman (Confront sociopaths.)
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To: GeorgeKant

We have apparently learned nothing since the 13th century.


22 posted on 09/01/2007 6:10:35 PM PDT by aristotleman (Confront sociopaths.)
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To: GeorgeKant
Mongolian Bathroom

Positively No Shoe Tapping Allowed!

23 posted on 09/01/2007 6:24:23 PM PDT by ricks_place
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To: GeorgeKant
“Mongolian conqueror Genghis Khan banned gay sex, experts say”

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!

24 posted on 09/01/2007 6:26:03 PM PDT by OneHun
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To: GeorgeKant

If Genghis Khan got on his best pony and rode three hard days to his right, he’d be approaching my left flank!


25 posted on 09/01/2007 6:30:23 PM PDT by night reader (NRA Life Member since 1962)
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To: GeorgeKant

CORRECTION: The dude banned ‘pederasty’ not ‘gaiety’. I bet he would have banned euphemisms for depravity!


26 posted on 09/01/2007 6:31:35 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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To: GeorgeKant
No sodomy? (Keep the rider able to sit in the saddle?)

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.

27 posted on 09/01/2007 6:33:02 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: GeorgeKant

The Angles and Saxons had two offenses punishable by death; homosexuality and cowardice.


28 posted on 09/01/2007 6:56:54 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound; SunkenCiv
We can sure use him! Turn him loose in Iraq and look the other way!

Been there, done that. Ever heard what his grandson Hulegu did to the Assassins at Alamut? Or how he destroyed Baghdad in 1258?

29 posted on 09/01/2007 7:03:52 PM PDT by Berosus ("The candidates that can't face Fox News can't face Al Qaeda."--Roger Ailes)
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To: GeorgeKant

jinjis?


30 posted on 09/01/2007 7:19:54 PM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: gusopol3

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.


31 posted on 09/01/2007 7:39:22 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: RetiredArmy; GeorgeKant
But, then again, the Muzzies believe the same thing...

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.

32 posted on 09/01/2007 7:57:22 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: The_Reader_David

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.


33 posted on 09/01/2007 7:57:42 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: GeorgeKant

He must have been a closet homo himself. At least, that’s the conventional wisdom in the “gay” community ...


34 posted on 09/01/2007 8:02:24 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: sure_fine

He conquered much of Asia. Maybe he did so by chanelling energy that some groups want poured into sodomy into fighting?


35 posted on 09/01/2007 8:26:07 PM PDT by tbw2 (Science fiction with real science - "Humanity's Edge" by Tamara Wilhite)
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To: RichInOC

Are you or have you ever been a Hasher?


36 posted on 09/01/2007 8:44:02 PM PDT by BBell
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To: BBell

No. I am, however, a long-time Monty Python fan.


37 posted on 09/01/2007 9:02:46 PM PDT by RichInOC ("And I thought you were so rugged!")
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To: Berosus

:’) 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.


38 posted on 09/01/2007 10:13:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Wednesday, August 29, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: RichInOC

Lots of Monty Python fans in the Hash you know. Thought you might be one of us.


39 posted on 09/02/2007 12:25:04 AM PDT by BBell
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To: The_Reader_David

thanks!


40 posted on 09/02/2007 5:41:29 AM PDT by gusopol3
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