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  1. Catholic Sovereign abdicates-becomes cleric- finally is elected pope

    Obvious choice is Henry Benedict Stuart, who was Dean of the College of Cardinals. Not a reigning monarch, but still. I also had a wonderful and improbable vision of Queen Christina disguising herself a man, becoming ordained, and rising through the hierarchy.

  2. Es Geloybte Aretz - a Germanwank

    Except that the Dutch weren't in WWI but are in this one, so I'm not sure that 'no WWI' equates to there being loads more Dutch people. And anyway, I should think that the prospect of indefinite foreign rule in the DEI isn't a positive thing.

  3. DBWI: Hitler comes to power

    I hate this persistent myth that fascism would have strengthened the West's position. Beck and Goerdeler's coup attempt against the SDP nearly cost us the war. It's not like there haven't been decent, honest figures on the European Right, Pierre Laval for instance, that completely lack the taint...

  4. DBWI: Hitler comes to power

    I'm tired of these sick and morbid scenarios where marginal far-right figures like Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill somehow manage to take power in stable, developed democracies. It's almost as bad as that execrable reactionary fantasy that has General Eisenhower seizing power in the 50s.

  5. What if Julian succeeded in installing a client king in Persia and ruled for decades

    I'm rather optimistic on Julian's ability to keep paganism going during a long reign, but I don't think that Christianity really can be destroyed at this point. Looking at the example of Hinduism (which ought to be people's first example when considering TLs contemplating the survival of...

  6. N/A

    You generally have to have witnesses to prove sodomy, so it's more difficult than it sounds, you can't just arrest someone for being gay. If they entrapped him in a cruising sting, or arrested him as disorderly for socializing in public with other gay people, or convinced his close family to...

  7. AHC: A Homosexual Homeland

    The problem with the concept that, in order to gain traction, there a.) cannot be a country where people can flee to. Homophobic violence must be all-pervasive. I.e. the world before 1970. b.) In such a world, no one will recognize a gay nation. And given the example from OTL...

  8. AHC: A Homosexual Homeland

    The fertility isn't the problem. The problem is that the vast majority of the kids would be heteros. The hypothetical nation would have to reject reproduction altogether or become just another microstate within a generation. The fact of the matter is that we aren't like national minorities at...

  9. AHC: A Homosexual Homeland

    It occurs to me that Key West is really gay, and everyone loves the Conch Republic. Would a mostly gay sovereign state count, or does it have to be a state created explicitly as a gay homeland?

  10. AHC: A Homosexual Homeland

    To go back very far, it was possible in many Greek polities for a young man to increase his social-political standing by 'marrying up' into a higher class. Thebes provides the most famous example of same-sex relationships providing an entree to the political-military elite, but on Crete a youth...

  11. AHC: A Homosexual Homeland

    Gay people in tolerant countries are better off staying put, and gay people in intolerant countries are better off emigrating to tolerant ones. The cost of building such a nation makes the whole project unfeasible, even if gay people had a desire to abandon our nations and our straight family...

  12. Devil Worship WI

    I believe this is it, though I've also read that might be a pun on 'Lord of the Heavenly House.' The Old Testament often uses puns to mock foreign gods and people, e.g. Jezebel, whose name means 'the Lord is exalted,' while the Hebrew form puns it as 'she without husband/lord' (i.e., a whore).

  13. Devil Worship WI

    There were plenty of people in he ancient Levant who worshipped Moloch, Beelzebub, Belphegor, and other Semitic gods that the priesthood demonized over time. The accuser himself is bit more difficult, since he seems to have originally been conceived of as a servant of Yahweh rather than having...

  14. Out and Proud

    It would certainly help his legacy, he'd be held in honor rather than contempt nowadays. I mean, it would have really groundbreaking.

  15. Out and Proud

    I could see him politically surviving for a while after about 1973, but not before. I don't think that being gay was much of a problem for the Liberals' base at that point, but I'm not an expert or even a Briton.

  16. AHC: Catholic Britain

    I think that the earlier stuff, the dynastic stuff, needs to be ignored. The best way to bring about a Catholic revival in England is to seriously discredit the C of E. Perhaps they openly collaborate with a hideous dictatorship in the 19th cent. and have their moral authority wrecked as a...

  17. AHC: Catholic Britain

    I believe that Catholic churches have higher attendance rates than Anglican churches in the UK, and this is even more so if one were to include the Republic of Ireland (even with the immense damage the RCC has done to itself there). So, OTL? It works depending on how you count it, but I don't...

  18. DBWI: JFK KIlled in Dallas instead of Jackie?

    At least we'd be spared the maudlin marriage-divorce-remarriage-widowhood saga of Christina in the 70s. I suspect that the experience of Miss Onassis is what really sainted Jackie Kennedy in the American collective unconscious.

  19. Poll: Which Valois King would you give a longer Reign?

    Charles IX, though not for him, rather so that young Henri can have a longer run on the Polish-Lithuanian throne.

  20. Es Geloybte Aretz - a Germanwank

    On the other hand, he does display a deep-seated admiration for imposing gravines.
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