On Sodom

The Sodomiites were keen on not just homosexual love, but homosexual gang rape.

Context is important here: Abram had argues that if there wre 10 rigtheous men in the town it should not be destroyed. The closest they coulg get to was Lot. — who was by no means perfect.

Everyone else was baying for the two new men. Everyone.

My firends who are gay would  call that rape. Icall that rape.

Genesis 19:1-17

1The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2He said, “Please, my lords, turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you can rise early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the square.” 3But he urged them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. 4But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house; 5and they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, so that we may know them.”'

via PC(USA) – Devotions – Daily readings for Monday, February 1, 2010.

We need to be careful here. There is no way that the OT or NT approves of sexual impurity. There is also now way the the OT and NT approve of oppression of the poor — by unjust wages. withdrawal of capital, unfair interest rates, or aggressively holding the necessities of life in bond.

And the master said tht if you have broken one law you have broken them all. What we see in Sodom was a licentious riot: the other exampple (In Judges) led to the genocide of the Benjaminite tribe (all men were aked to say shibboleth to chekc if they had the Benjaminite  accent).

2Then the men said to Lot, “Have you anyone else here? Sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone you have in the city — bring them out of the place. 13For we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the LORD, and the LORD has sent us to destroy it.” 14So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, “Up, get out of this place; for the LORD is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.

God is not mocked.

27Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD; 28and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the Plain and saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of a furnace.

What shall we do? Today is a new day. God’s mercies are new for today. Let us be salt and lgith today.