"God and Gay Marriage"

"France had outlawed homosexuality since the 1200s, castrating convicted offenders. After its revolution, France’s new legislative body codified many of the nation’s laws into the Penal Code of 1791, but omitted the homosexuality ban. It was the first time since classical antiquity that a Western government had decriminalized homosexuality.

In presenting the new legislation to French parliament, lawmaker Louis-Michel le Peletier explained that only “true crimes,” and not “those phony offenses created by superstition,” would be outlawed."

https://m.timeline.com/#!/stories/church-christianity-homosexuality-gay-marriage-god-america

This website (Timeline) is super cool. This was interesting, though of all the ones i chose to click on it is probably the most likely to be presenting a very specific context - especially when it gets to the 20th century.