How did the Early Church Fathers view homosexuality?
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The early church fathers opposed h*m*sexual intercourse.
From The Encyclopedia of Early Christianity:
The church fathers universally condemned male h*m*sexual behavior...They clearly regarded it as contrary to the created constitution and function of men and women...All the evidence indicates that the teaching mind of the early church unreservedly condemned h*m*sexual activity (as quoted in Callister The Inevitable Apostasy p. 214)
Polycarp (writing early 2nd century) paraphrased Peter & Paul in the fifth chapter of his Epistle to the Philippians:
In like manner, let the young men also be blameless in all things, being especially careful to preserve purity, and keeping themselves in, as with a bridle, from every kind of evil. For it is well that they should be cut off from the lusts that are in the world, since every lust wars against the spirit; and neither fornicators...nor abusers of themselves with mankind, shall inherit the kingdom of God
Note that Polycarp speaks against sexual immorality whether it is hetero- or h*m*sexual.
In Cyprian's Epistle to Donatus (see Epistle 1.1.8-10, written mid 3rd century), he speaks out against sexual sin including lust, adultery, incest, emasculation, h*m*sexuality, and prostitution.
They understood the Jewish & Christian texts to oppose h*m*sexual activity, and quoted them as such.
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