Whilst it cannot be denied that homosexual activity has been around in all its forms, in every culture and among all levels of creation, ever since the world began ... historically, Western society in particular has, throughout the intervening millennia, frowned upon such acts being engaged in by humanity as -at best, unnatural and at worst, downright degrading - much more in keeping with the very sort of behaviour one might attribute to the animal kingdom, rather than to do with any perceived religious doctrine or objection(s).

Lest it be forgotten, its practice in the UK was illegal [think Oscar Wilde!] - punishable by imprisonment - up until it was decriminalised, first in England & Wales in 1967 ... with the proviso that any sexual intimacy between two men (each of whom had to have attained the age of 21) took place in PRIVATE ... followed by Scotland in 1980
then, finally, Northern Ireland a couple of years later.