After late Roman pagan lawyers had already applied the Lex Julia to homosexual acts, Christian emperors enacted laws and issued exhortations against homosexuals, four in a two-hundred year period, with the two by Justinian (527-565) being as much concerned with penance as penalty.<ref>Derrick S. Bailey, Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition Bailey pp. 79-81</ref> | After late Roman pagan lawyers had already applied the Lex Julia to homosexual acts, Christian emperors enacted laws and issued exhortations against homosexuals, four in a two-hundred year period, with the two by Justinian (527-565) being as much concerned with penance as penalty.<ref>Derrick S. Bailey, Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition Bailey pp. 79-81</ref> |