Slouching Toward Gomorrah (Part 2)
People read an awful lot into the threat the men of Sodom issued. For them, it’s all about homosexuality. In reality, Genesis 19 itself says that they were there because they felt judged. Lot seeks to remonstrate with them & they accuse him of hypocrisy. Genesis 19 doesn’t state anything you wrote. It does, however, that the angels were there in response to the great outcry. The same story repeats in Judges 19. There, the lynch mob issues the same threat & rape - murders a female. If Genesis 19 is the proverb against homosexuality you obviously think it is, then how much more Judges is a proverb against heterosexuality. What happened in Sodom? The proximate reason was the failure to find ten righteous people, and the men who rejected them were a mob of Angry Religious Bigots who very likely planned to either rape them or intoxicate the messengers and involve them in a pagan rite. They were doing the same thing the pe...