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This is a sin......now the fags are going back through history and
coming up with crap like this....are they that unsure of what they
are that they have to defend their evil ways and sinful actions by
attacking children's heros? This article is very, very weak when it comes
to any proof that Robin Hood was gay. Like I said before, get
your kids out of the public school system and teach them yourselves.
This kind of thing is very damaging. Teach them the morals and
values they aren't learning in school.
> LONDON, July 11 (Reuters) - England's legendary outlaw Robin Hood was gay,
> preferring his ``merrie men'' to Maid Marian, a leading English literature
> professor said on Sunday.
>
> The reassessment of one of Britain's greatest folk heroes was greeted by gay
> activists as a welcome -- if belated -- 'outing'. But the Robin Hood Society
> said the claims were damaging to one of the great role models for today's
> children.
>
> Stephen Knight, professor of English literature at Cardiff University,
> decided Robin Hood was gay after studying 14th century ballads that are the
> earliest known accounts of his deeds.
>
> ``The ballads could not say outright that he was gay because of the
> prevailing moral climate, but they do contain a great deal of erotic
> imagery,'' he said.
>
> ``The green wood itself is a symbol of virility and the references to arrows,
> quivers and swords make it clear too,'' he told The Sunday Times.
>
> He said the ballads showed that Maid Marian -- always described as Robin
> Hood's true love -- never existed.
>
> Knight thinks her name was added by 16th-century authors who wanted the tale
> of the outlaw who robbed from the rich to give to the poor to be more
> respectable to heterosexual readers.
>
> His theory won backing from Barry Dobson, professor of medieval history at
> the University of Cambridge.
>
> ``In the 12th century, homosexuality was accepted, but in the 13th the church
> became much less tolerant and such people were driven underground,'' he said.
>
> Robin Hood has always been portrayed as a swashbuckling aristocrat who became
> an outlaw after his lands were confiscated by King John in the 1190s.
>
> Peter Tatchell of the gay rights group Outrage was delighted by the new
> academic speculation: ``His lifestyle alone was enough to provoke
> speculation. It's about time school history lessons acknowledged the
> contribution of famous homosexuals.''
>
> But Mary Chamberlain of the Robin Hood Society was outraged: ``Robin remains
> a highly regarded figure the world over and children like to play at being
> Robin Hood. These claims could do a lot of damage.''
>
> The Sunday Times concluded that in Hollywood, it was Mel Brooks and not Kevin
> Costner who had got the story right.
>
> ``The revelation flies in the face of Kevin Costner's portrayal of the outlaw
> in 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' and suggests that the title of Mel
> Brooks's film 'Robin Hood: Men In Tights' was closer to the mark,'' it said.
>
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