>>40211657
>"society did not broadly accept gay people"
>long-lived cult of deification of a gay person exists for hundreds of years without being persecuted
>His religious transgressions are one factor, his lifestyle and sexual transgressions are as well.
his religious transgressions were the entire factor and his sexual stuff was just brought up because it was lurid gossip, like how people claimed tiberius was a pedo because they hated him for other reasons. btw they thought he was weird cause he was a tranny, not cause he was gay