Christianity, Social Tolerance and HomosexualityJohn Boswell's National Book Award winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a ground breaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members among them priests, bishops, and even saints when it was first published thirty five years ago. The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make