:::ExRat insists on criteria which eliminate any possibility of including any historical persons.  That's not acceptable.  Deleting properly sourced citation, for vague propositions isn't acceptable.  if you have a SOURCE which STATES that a person was not gay or whatever, put that in their article so it can be discussed.  Simply erasing any discussion of it, is not acceptable.  That is called scholarship.  I don't really care if you think Norton was or is an activist.  That is OR.  I'm focusing on him as an RS and your opinion that he is not, is also OR.  It's basically irrelevant to an encyclopaedia.  Now if you can actually come up with a historian who discusses Paulinus' sexuality than be my guest.  That what we're all about.