"It is the way of advocacy scholarship to seize upon snips and pieces of "evidence" divorced from their historical context, and then offer a fanciful interpretation that serves the argument being advanced. That is the way egregiously exemplified by Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality. David Wright, the author of the pertinent encyclopedia article [in the Encyclopedia of Early Christianity] on homosexuality wrote in 1989: "The conclusion must be that for all the interest and stimulus Boswell's book provides in the end of the day NOT ONE PIECE OF EVIDENCE that the teaching mind of the early Church countenanced homosexual activity."
Father Richard Neuhaus, author, editor and founder of the Institute on Religion and Public Life has delivered a serious rebuttal to the flawed advocacy scholarship of John Boswell delivered in the book Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality. This file is must reading for anyone who seeks the Truth about issues of homosexual activity and wants to read more than simply the pro-Gay party line.
