It doesn't appear to have been mentioned, but from what I know of per-judeo christian Teutonic and Scandinavian culture, homosexuality was pretty frowned upon, especially in the romantic sense. Not to mention that for a period, many romans saw homosexuality as a thing of decadence (Specifically Greek decadence), and that seems to have carried through to the rise of christianity, which was one reason that Pauline theology gained so much precedence among the peons. So the slur on judeo-christian cultures for devestating the whole homosexual thing isn't entirely deserved- although some cultures were pro-mother or pro-homosexuality, that was by no means a rule, or even a guideline. It might be safer to say that those values wound up paving those other cultures over. To assert that the rigid stances on homosexuality and patriarchy were something new is rediculous. Those beliefs had already existed- or do you really think that a handful of refugees from the levant somehow managed to convince everyone to change their values at the point of the sword?