PROFESSOR: GAYS CAUSED FALL OF ROMAN EMPIRE
An Italian academic is under pressure to resign after he claimed in an interview that gays were the cause of the collapse of the Roman Empire.
In the interview with a religious radio channel, Professor Roberto De Mattei, who is vice-president of Italy’s Centre for National Research, said: “The collapse of the Roman Empire and the arrival of the Barbarians was due to the spread of homosexuality”.
De Mattei, 63, known to be a devout catholic, added: “The invasion of the Barbarians was seen as punishment for this moral transgression. It is well known that effeminate men and homoexuals have no place in the Kingdom of God. Homosexuality was not rife among the Barbarians, and this shows that God’s justice comes throughout history, not at the end of time.”
De Mattei has previously claimed that recent natural disasters in Japan were “divine punishment”.
Other academics have disputed De Mattei’s statements about the Roman Empire and LGBT rights groups have called on him to resign.
An opposition MP, Paola Concia, said that she has tabled a call for the country’s education minister to step in and intervene.
The fall of Rome and De Mattei. As a eminent historian I can assure you this is further from the truth as much as Verwoerd having a fetish for mopani worms.
The homosexuality and decadence of the Roman Empire has no part in its demise. Rome was like USA compared today and in building its great empire it had simply stretched its resources to the limits. In 476 AD Romes’ soldiers were spread so thinly across the entire Europe and parts of North Africa that it simply could not afford or have the manpower to defend itself against the Barbarian.
The Spartan and Macedonians prided themselves on their gay armies and have caused great victories across the Classical World due to its unity and zeal for brotherly love.
De Mattei is very confused. I can in equal breath argue that the acceptance of Christianity caused the gods of Antiquity (Zeus and that crowd) to provide superhuman strenght to Asterix and Obelix to invade the Might that was Rome.