alice youNG is known to be a witch. wife of john youNG, he had a small parcel of land in 1641 and sold it in 1649, and then he disappeared. alice's daughter, alice youNG beamon, was accused of witchcraft in 1671. alice did not have a son. that's why he lied and said that she was a witch so that she would be without an inheritance.
Alright.. Let's further talk about Alse* Young as it still provides what I was trying to get across to you in the first place.
I don't know where you're getting the "that's why he lied part" - as I said before very little is known about her. What we do know is she was accused by someone in her town of being a witch (reportedly for making herbal remedies for her neighbors, this is where the
religious ignorance comes in play).
Like many of the circumstances that would later show up in the Salem Witch Trials, she did not have a son or husband and owned property, meaning with her death her property would go to the town, making her an easy target for a witchcraft accusation (
false accusations/ulterior motives).
And so, what does this have to do with the Knights Templar? After the failure of the Crusades, King Philip was in severe debt with the order. What better way to get rid of this debt then by accusing them of heresy (
false accusations/ulterior motives). The fact that the orders initiation rights were secretive easily allowed for a distortion of the truth. What secretive rights could have possibly been happening? (
religious ignorance).
The men were tortured to confess all the "evils" involved in the order such as "spit on the cross, deny Christ, and engage in indecent kissing; brethren were also accused of worshiping idols, and the order was said to have encouraged homosexual practices." All this information was obtained through torture and all of the accused recanted their confessions when they were free from the inquisitors torture. A document was later found in 2001, showing that Pope Clement absolved the order of all heresies.
So as you can see, there is no baphomet/knights templar/LGBT/ transgender/bisexual connection other than the random thoughts of some quack conspiracy writer.