Homosexualism in Pagan Rome

"If we must rake up old laws, surely our list should be headed by the Sodomy Act. What's more, you should first examine the conduct of men, not women. Men are the worse by far, but their numbers protect them. They all back each other up, and queers stick together like glue. Besides, you will never find our sex indulging in such detestable perversions: all of us know our roles, from famous courtesan to randy amateur harlot; we would not dream of giving tongue to each other's parts. But your lawyer-philosopher obliges young men both ways, his versatile efforts turning him doubly anaemic." Satire II, 43-50 in Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires, New York: Penguin, 1974, 76-77.

quod si uexantur leges ac iura, citari
ante omnis debet Scantinia. respice primum
et scrutare uiros, faciunt nam plura; sed illos               45
defendit numerus iunctaeque umbone phalanges.
magna inter molles concordia. non erit ullum
exemplum in nostro tam detestabile sexu.
Tedia non lambit Cluuiam nec Flora Catullam:
Hispo subit iuuenes et morbo pallet utroque.

http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/juvenal/2.shtml

N.B. Christianity has forever resisted and opposed homosexual kings, e.g Saint Charles Lwanga and Companions.

Rome fell because of the denial of God, the God of nature, and that anti-natural denial of God manifested itself in homosexualism. Cf. Romans 1:18-32

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and injustice of those men that detain the truth of God in injustice: because that which is known of God is manifest in them. For God hath manifested it unto them. For the invisible things of him, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made; his eternal power also, and divinity: so that they are inexcusable. Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God, or given thanks; but became vain in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened. For professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of a corruptible man, and of birds, and of fourfooted beasts, and of creeping things. Wherefore God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness, to dishonour their own bodies among themselves. Who changed the truth of God into a lie; and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature. And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts one towards another, men with men working that which is filthy, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error. And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient; being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness, full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity, whisperers, detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, foolish, dissolute, without affection, without fidelity, without mercy. Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death; and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them.