The Romans explicitly forbid Gay marriage.
It was against their laws and punishable by death.
Were there homosexuals and Pedophiles in Rome ? Sure, just like there are today everywhere.
The fact is it was written into their laws that governed their Society that marriage was between a man and a woman.
Try finding sources other than Wiki time.
Any clown can post crap on Wiki
I never said anything about gay marriage in Ancient Rome, I said homosexua SEX was legal in Ancient Rome. Never said anything about marriage. The whole purpose was to point that in terms of sexuality the world today and in the near past had shied away from anything homosexual whereas in the present we're starting to get more comfortable with homosexuality just like how the Ancient Romans had no issue with homosexuality.
Gay sex =/= Gay marriage
Homosexuality in Antiquity.: iCONN OneSearch for Colleges & Universities
Unfortunately this is the Connecticut search engine for academic sources, so I believe unless one lives in CT they cannot access it. However, it's a work titled "Homosexuality in Antiquity" and I'll give some quotes from it.
"Homoerotic behavior was an accepted part of
every ancient culture.*" -the very first sentence of the work
"In Egypt, Persia, the
Orient, Asia, Africa,
Western Europe, the Mediterranean,
and pre-Columbian America, homosexual behavior was
common, and there is no evidence that any ancient society
ever punished anyone for sexual variance." -Page 1
"For Greek and Roman male citizens, gay affairs were
considered an accepted and expected aspect of civilized life." -Page 2
"But with the advent of repressive
Christianity, sexual attitudes did an about-face, and the taboo
against homosexuality extended its way along the shores of
the blue Mediterranean." -page 3
It appears Rome was rather open to homosexuality, homosexual marriage rites were not explicitly banned until the advent of REPRESSIVE CHRISTIANITY. They were not officially recognized by Roman Law but they weren't prohibited.
It's all the fault of Christianity, besides, once Christianity became the state religion Rome was already on the decline, in fact, West Rome vanished to leave only the Byzantine Empire, Christianity was hardly the history of Rome.
Alright, so all the **** you posted was not only FALSE, but you didn't even cite anything. Now since I was called upon to give an academic source I went on to Connecticut's search engine and found an academically acceptable source that specifically backed up my claim that the Romans had no issue with homosexuality and in fact...
"Many Greek philosophers extolled male love on the
ground that it was nobler, purer, and closer to the gods than
relations with women, the weaker and less clean vessels." -page 2
The Roman's highly esteemed Greek contemporaries even viewed it as a purer relationship than man and woman relationships.