Sodom was destroyed for homosexuality

THE EDITOR: I refer to the letter entitled “My sins are worse than yours” penned by Ethan G, and published in the Newsday of Wednesday September 3, 2003. I do not believe that Ethan has read “all those anti-gay Biblical excerpts” over a thousand times. Yet if he did then something must be wrong with his reading! I would like to point out the following to him as well as others who attack what the Holy Scripture has to say about homosexuality without studying it properly. Firstly, with reference to the title of his piece “My sins are not worse than yours,” I observed how curious it is of us sinners (1 Kings 8:46; 2 Chr. 6:36 Eccel. 7:20 KJV) to be comparing our sins with other people’s and finding comfort in the fact that we think ours are not as great as theirs. When the Lord said “the soul that sinneth shall surely die,” (Eze. 18:4) He did not give details of the magnitude or multitude of the sins in question; but we do know that the gay man as well as the straight man will perish if he does not repent of his sins! (Luke 13:1-3 KJV).

Secondly, Ethan asks; “Tell me this, do you believe those infamous cities (Sodom and Gomorrah) would have remained intact if the men were sleeping with each other’s wives rather than each other? Don’t you think that plain reckless adultery would have been enough for fire and brimstone?” The answer to the first question is most certainly yes they would have remained intact along with all the other cities that were not destroyed for this reason! Men have always slept with other men’s wives and nowhere is it recorded that God destroyed them or their cities! While the Bible does not condone adultery, this definitely is not the reason why Sodom was destroyed. The reason why Sodom and its inhabitants were destroyed was that its men were practicing homosexuality! Lot was saved because he was not. The men of Sodom were not bisexuals, “male sluts,” they were emphatically homosexuals.

A careful reading of Genesis 19 will show that Lot’s daughters were virgins (verse 8) although they were married! (verse 14) If Lot’s sons-in-law were bisexual men, they certainly would have slept with them! Neither did the men of Sodom sleep with their wives nor with other men’s wives! Lot’s eldest daughter, having lived in Sodom all her life and being married to a Sodomite, came to the conclusion that “...there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth..” The men of Sodom did not treat women in the same manner as other men “in all the earth”. Oh, the trauma this young lady was put through! Because of her husband’s homosexuality she raped her father! (verse 31). Thirdly, all biblical commands such as Lev. 18:22 and 20:13 are addressed to all men, gay or straight. It must be admitted that God created the “gay man” and also forbids him to have sex with other men. Genesis 1:27 tells us He made “male and female”; there is no “third sex.” Hormonal imbalances in men may cause them to be attracted to other men but it does not create a new sex. This imbalance can be corrected in this modern age of medical science. Therefore if you are going to argue in support your homosexual lifestyle, you can’t do so on the basis of the Bible. The Bible is totally against this manner of living.
Finally I would like to point out that the Bible says that it is not just the homosexual act that is sinful, but the “effeminate” man shall not inherit the Kingdom of God (1 Cor 6:9 KJV).

SYLVAN JAMES
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