Queering history: Alexander.

ITEM: Entertainment Weekly's lavish cover story for November 19 claims that Oliver Stone's new movie, Alexander, about Alexander the Great, is "an honest, fairly explicit treatment of Alexander's famous bisexuality." "It wasn't like Stone had taken historical liberties," the article continues. "His rendering of Alexander's life is ... more or less in the mainstream of scholarly research. By most accounts Alexander did like men, women, and eunuchs--his best friend Hephaistion was his longtime lover."

ITEM: A New York Times article for November 20 entitled, "Breaking Ground With a Gay Movie Hero," says of Stone's film: "Historians of antiquity say the picture's depiction of Alexander is more or less accurate.... They also note that Alexander's bisexuality was common for his time."

CORRECTION: The straight population is largely unaware that "gay" and lesbian "scholars" have been busily rewriting and "reclaiming" history, in a fevered effort to confer legitimacy on the "unspeakable vice." A major part of this effort involves resurrecting famous historical persons as "gay heroes." According to various homosexual authors and academics, the list of famous sodomites includes Plato, Aristotle, Homer, Achilles, Solon, Cicero, Julius Caesar, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, King Richard the Lionhearted, William Shakespeare, Florence Nightingale, and many more. In 1999, The Times of London reported that a Professor Stephen Knight had uncovered evidence that Robin Hood and his Merry Men actually were a band of homosexuals. The professor's "evidence" was pretty thin: a few lines of troubadour ballads that he claimed showed homoerotic overtones!

The historical claims of the homo-revisionists range from the ludicrous to the blasphemous, the worst case of the latter being their repeated references to a homosexual relationship between Jesus Christ and St. John, the "beloved disciple." Similarly, they find a queer connection in the biblical account of the friendship of David and Jonathan. John Shelby Spong, the retired radical Episcopal Bishop of Newark, claims that St. Paul was a sodomite. Likewise, the Lavender Lobby asserts that virtually all biblical "pairings" are evidence of same-sex relations: Ruth and Naomi, St. Peter and St. Paul, St. Peter and St. Andrew, St. Philip and St. Bartholomew. These claims are usually based on the work of Yale history professor John Boswell, a homosexual activist who died of AIDS in 1994 at age 47.

The point of this revisionist "research," as many of these radical academics admit, is to establish that homosexuality is normal (or even superior to heterosexuality), since so many famous and talented people were "gay." This agenda to legitimize perversion should be borne in mind whenever appeals to antiquity are made on behalf of buggery. Which brings us back to Alexander the Great, one of the names that appears frequently on the homosexual activists' lists of "Famous Queers."

Is Oliver Stone's depiction of Alexander "honest" and in "the mainstream of scholarly research," as Entertainment Weekly asserts, and is there a consensus among historians, as the Times claims, that the movie's "gay" theme is "more or less accurate"? Dr. Craig Johnson, a Fellow of the International Academy in Strasbourg, France, and professor in residence at Chalcedon Academy in Agoura Hills, California, says of the matter:

Aristotle's dictum still stands: "He who asserts must also prove." When you make a claim, the burden of proof is on you to demonstrate that claim. Let's ask some clear, practical questions in light of Oliver Stone's Alexander: Did Alexander ever kiss a man on the mouth? No evidence. Did he ever play a passive or active role in same sex sexual unions? No evidence. Did he have sex of any kind with the eunuch Bagoas? No ...