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footnote: Legal history shows what the Christians thought of non-Christians. The lawyer Doepler posed the question: "When a Christian has sexual intercourse with a Jewess or a Jew with a Christian woman, whether this is also to be considered an act of sodomy and is therefore to be punished by death? He was of the opinion that although the case was different (in nature), the act was still to be looked upon as sodomy. The Dutch scholars De Damhouder and Wielant, too, put the intimate association with Turks, Saracens and Jews on a par with that of dogs or of a dead woman, an act which was punished by the death of the Christian partner as well.
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