Edited sentence: Being a minority it as made an easy target for governments of all kinds throughout the ages in societies with negative views.Homosexuality has been frequently a scapegoat by governments facing problems.In societies with positive attitudes the results have been the opposite.Others would be the Inquisitions in which gay people were blamed for causing natural disasters and in the modern same-sex marriage debate they have been attributed to the “decay” of Western Civilization and weakening heterosexual marriages among other ills.Pre-modern Japan thought homosexuality to be an effective boost to military power within the ranks of the Samurais.Some major examples would be Nazi Germany’s Holocaust of gay men employing the understanding that they were a threat to masculinity as well as contaminating the Aryan Race with a “gay” gene.The Ancient Greeks held homosexuality to be a defense for democracy as well as crime control and population control