Okay, time for the second last installment of Homosexuality and the Bible - I know how excited everyone must be. Almost as exciting as watching water boil… just mesmerizing.
The part I am going to address today is the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, also known as the story of Lot, found in Genesis 18.
The story goes a little some thing like this: God sends down two Angels to Sodom and Gomorrah to determine the fate of the two cities after the cities have essentially become over run with sin - basic lawlessness throughout the land and no one seems to care. Picture what happens in True Blood when that crazy lady with horns is making people do whacked out shit.
Well the Angels (disguised as attractive male strangers) happen upon Lot’s house on the outskirts of the cities. Lot’s not into all the whacked out shiz so he offers the his home to the strangers (in hospitality towards guests in Middle Eastern culture held very highly, you should basically treat visitors to your home better than family). Now the men from the town learn of these new attractive visitors and they decide to pay Lot a visit and demand to have sex/rape the visitors. Lot refuses to give up the visitors and instead offers up his virgin daughters as a compromise. The towns people don’t want that though (perhaps they like a challenge or Lot’s daughters were nasty as all hell) and that is when the Angels reveal their true identity to Lot and his family. They tell them to leave the city, that God is going to punish the people of Sodom and Gomorrah for their lustful, sinful, and lawless ways, and they give them one condition, that they not look back at what is happening.
So Lot and his family head away from the cities and as they are leaving they can hear the carnage (apparently it rained fire and brimstone) Lot’s wife can’t help herself and in a moment of weakness turns to see what is happening and she instantly turns into a pillar of salt (some translations say sand I believe).
Once getting to safety Lot’s daughters thinking they need to repopulate the world get their father drunk and have sex with him (rape him) while he’s passed out. The story essentially ends there.
Now many Christian fundamentalist anti-queer people like to bring up this story all the time. There’s just one problem, the story isn’t about homosexuality. It’s actually about hospitality first and foremost and then it’s about being punished for a whole bunch of sins. The story never addresses consensual homosexuality. It addresses a mob of men who wanted to rape two dudes. Mob rape, even if they are raping members of the same-sex, is not about homosexuality, if that that were the case you’d have a lot more inmates and ex cons calling them selves Queer. The other issues is that by damning homosexuality through this story they’re almost saying what Lot’s daughters did afterwards is okay because God didn’t punish them. And even if you do think homosexuality is an abomination I’m sorry but incest is WAY worse.
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