That is damned generous of you, Old Guy! (about the underwear, I mean) Your character has gone way up in my estimation. ;-)

I don't think there are any statistics to suggest that homosexual men are poor fighters on the battlefield, are there? You gotta remember that among homosexuals there are those who prefer to play the more feminine role and those who most definitely don't....besides which, women can also fight like hell when they choose to. Therefore, I should think that forming gay combat formations might actually be quite effective if you want a good fighting army.

Don't forget, the Spartans, who were the most effective fighters in ancient Greece and in the whole world at that time, seem to have virtually all been either homosexual or bisexual. It didn't make them weaklings on the battlefield. Quite the contrary. They were utterly deadly.

So...where did the modern BS about effeminate poofs come from anyway? I'd guess it was the natural reaction of heterosexual males who are scared shitless when the subject of homosexuality "comes up". Maybe they're scared because they fear some such latent tendency in themselves.

One has to wonder. In my case, I never gave a damn about it one way or another. I find the idea of men having sex with men totally unappealing and a complete turn-off, but do I worry about other people doing that or liking it? No. I simply don't care, as long as they don't bother me about it, and as long as they keep it private and between consenting adults. I consider it a total non-issue. Boring, in fact.

Some religious text proscribes it? Well, I don't care about that either. I love God, but I don't think he's a beancounter and I don't think he wrote the Bible either. Men wrote the Bible. They were no doubt inspired by God in many of the passages, but they were men and they were fallible. They included a lot of their own cultural blind spots and prejudices in what they wrote.

Fundamentalist Muslims take a very dim view of most of the same things that fundamentalist Jews and Christians take a dim view of...and all because of the same ancient holy books! They all revere Abraham, Moses, Solomon, and Isaiah! I find that ironical. Extremely so. What you have here is a religious family quarrel. That can be a pretty vicious situation.