A Night in Sodom

It's painful to read the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible because you get the impression that this story is probably why lots of people hate gays so much. It obviously reported what might have been a mass rape had not supernatural intervention changed things considerably.

Imagine though, if the two messengers (angels) had not rescued Lot as he spoke to his friends and neighbors about how wrong it would be for them all to rape his two male guests. The story would have been even more heinous and then when both Cities of the Plain were destroyed by volcanic lava, as some have suggested, then perhaps some folk today would say that the Gang Rape Mob had gotten their just rewards.

I've sometimes felt sad for all those homosexual, as well as non-homosexual men and women along with their children, who were destroyed in such a painful way. Some progressive folk have suggested that it was natural causes that destroyed them, and that it was not divine retribution that wiped out all those people, the semi-good (Lot's future sons-in-law and his wife) with the bad. But I start to think that if I were visiting such a sex-obsessed culture that wanted to gang rape every stranger that came into town and took refuge in a religious persons' home, I probably would have been raped, as well. That's nothing anyone wants to experience, regardless of whatever distorted prison fantasies some gay men have. I've had them in the past myself. I even used to hang out in bathhouses when I was a young man that had mock prison cells replete with bars and minimal mattresses. I'm glad I survived to tell the tale.