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Abrahamic religions were always about increasing their numbers.
So heterosexuality was forced on everyone, because that's how you get new people born into the cult, which is easier than converting a rational adult.
Everytime an Abrhamic religion ran into a new culture, they forced that rigidality onto them.
True but not entire. Homophobia is still very common in cultures that were never touched by Abrahamic religion like The West was.
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On OP's point about homosexuality in Rome specifically, you're thinking of the Greeks. Homosexuality in Rome was taboo, except as a form of domination between ~~an owner and his slaves.~~ E: an older man and a young man he had power over
More precisely, homosexual sex was seen in two distinct roles (“top” and “bottom”), and only the latter was taboo.
Eh... yes and no. It's worth acknowledging that "Roman" is a pretty big block of culture to talk about so broadly, but there were definitely more social rules to (older) males' choice of male concubine than "to be the one who penetrates." Public homosexual relationships almost always came from a place of power first and romance second (if at all).