Dr Bock, thanks for your respond. I totally agree with you. But in my context it is now impossible to even raise the question again (i.e. because of the Council and its decision in the matter). Even so Im going to do my final essay on this topic from a exegetical and historical perspective.

My question which you didnt answer was about this John Boswell. I guess you will be hearing more about this historian in the US when the Christian Gaymovement further mobilizes.

So again: Do you know anything about this Yale Professor by the name of John Boswell who has challenged the main and traditional viewpoint? Do you know if there has been any attempts to refute his thesis and conclusions that same-sex unions occurred in the late medieval?

His higly esteemed (atleast in my Country) works are:
* Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century. And

*Same Sex Unions In Premodern Europe

In his last book (above) he has also well footnoted his sources: a lot of Latin and Greek material (from RC and the Orthodox Church) that seems apparently to give some indication of a liturgy that contained a blessed a union betweeen men (who wanted to share the life together).
Boswell's interpretation of these old texts (I believe)are totally wrong as he sees them as homosexual unions instead of a union between friends (such as David and Jonathan in OT).

Even so, Boswell seems to have found some divergence in the Official liturgic Tradition.

Magnus Nordlund, Sweden.