On Sunday, January 31, 2016 at 2:22:33 PM UTC-5, John W Kennedy wrote:
> On 2016-01-30 21:25:49 +0000, news.jo...@gmail.com said:
> > The derogatory term for a "male homosexual," 1914, is probably from
> > the earlier use for an old heretical woman, and a reference to the
> > "flaming faggots" (homosexuals were also burned at the stake)."
> Stop calling yourself "news.journalism". Use "rubbish.internet.rumors" instead.
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> John W Kennedy
> "The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything...."
> -- Emile Cammaerts, "The Laughing Prophet"
This is from the book "Third Reich" by the author Ian Tinny and the Dead Writers Club. The book also mentions the work of the etymologist Dr. Rex Curry and is available on Amazon:

"In ancient Rome, the fasces [fas-eez] was a bundle of sticks bound together. It symbolized "union," or people banded together. Thus, the word "fascist" is related to the word "fagot" (or faggot (British)) as a bundle of wood (see the work of the etymologist Dr. Curry) and via the similar early pronunciation of the words "fasces" and "faggot" (the original Latin term "fasces" was pronounced with a hard letter "C" sound or /k/, not the modern soft letter "C" sound or /s/).

In another bizarre parallel to "Christian Socialism," the phrase "fire and faggot" described punishment of a heretic by burning. Heretics who recanted were forced to display the symbol of a faggot on their shirt sleeve for public humiliation.
Homosexuality was illegal under the old crusades, under early "Christian socialism," and under the modern socialist crusades of the socialists Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Mussolini, Castro, Pol Pot, in North Korea, et cetera.

The derogatory term for a "male homosexual," 1914, is probably from the earlier use for an old heretical woman, and a reference to the "flaming faggots" (homosexuals were also burned at the stake)."