There seems to be little rational reason for the fundagelicals to latch onto creationism either - or at least not in preference to relativity-denial, geo-centrism, etc., etc. It's simply biology's bad luck that evolution became the symbol of the scientific, technological, cultural and ethical advances during the 19th century that the fundagelicals so abhor.
Similarly, homosexuality may have simply been targeted because it was associated with one of the sides in some forgotten church schism about something else entirely. Or as a result of a particularly deranged pope, cardinal or inquisitor. Or something else lost to the mists of time and history.
That being said, however, I think that there is something to the idea put forward elsewhere in this thread that it may have to do with the fact that the Church decided that outbreeding the competition would be desirable. This also fits with the doctrine that sex for pleasure is Bad and Sinful, even to the extent that it justifies (to the Church's mind, if to no-one else's) the sanctioning of HIV-AIDS denial and lying about condoms.
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Yes. Bogumils, Cathars. (Who may have only been the biggest and most lasting in multiple waves of schism/anti-homosexual-campaigns). *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
