Looking now at the
writings of select church fathers,in order to learn how they preached on the
subject of human sexuality.
Athenagoras(ca. 133 – 190) lived during the second half of the 2nd century of whom little is known for certain, besides that he was Athenian(though possibly not originally from Athens),a philosopher and a convert to Christianity.
He denounced homosexuality in A Plea for the Christians,chapter 34.
"...Oh! Why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?...For those [pagans]who have set up a market for fornication and established infamous resorts for the young for every kind of vile pleasure - who do not abstain even from males, males with males committing shocking abominations, outraging all the noblest and comeliest bodies in all sorts of ways, so dishonoring the fair workmanship of God..."
http://files.libertyfund.org/files/1970/1333.02_Bk_SM.pdf
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