The blindness of the Sodomites
A lesson on rights of conscience from the story of the destruction of Sodom.
Until recently, when someone said we were as bad as Sodom and Gomorrah, I quietly nodded but secretly thought, “Are we though?” Certainly, in terms of sexual practices, we do everything that the people of Sodom did, probably even more. In our society, the birth control pill has separated procreation from sex and made it possible for us to think of it as nothing more than a recreational pastime. And the proliferation of pornography and chat sites has made what used to be taboo sexual practices part of mainstream culture.
All that said, there still seemed to me to be one level of moral depravity that Sodom sank to that we had not reached quite yet. But the more I think about it, the more I fear we have reached it thanks to the LGBTQ community.
While we always associate the destruction of Sodom with the practice of homosexuality, I don’t think that is what brought about the city’s destruction. The Bible says that the Lord had heard a great outcry against the wickedness of the city. Why would people cry out to heaven for fear of a few men who decided to have sex with each other? Probably because it went well beyond a few men just deciding to have sex with each other.
Allow me to refresh your memory of the story: Abraham’s brother Lot was sitting at the gate of city of Sodom when two angels, in the form of men, entered into the city square on a mission from God to find out what the outcry was about. They were going to spend the night there in the open courtyard, but Lot begged them to stay in his house. I’m guessing he knew what would happen to two men if they stayed in the square all alone. When the men of Sodom got word that two new hunky guys were in town, they (both young and old) gathered together and pounded on Lot’s door demanding that he send the men out so that they could have a little fun.
“All the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. They called to Lot, ‘Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.’” Genesis 19:5
Lot begged the men to leave them alone saying, “Do not do this wicked act.” But they would not be deterred. In a move that offends our sensibilities today, Lot even offered them his virgin daughters instead of the men. But no. The townsmen became angry and swore to include Lot in their orgiastic plot and to do even worse things to him than they were planning for the visitors.
The sin of Sodom then was, in my opinion, not simply homosexuality. It wasn’t even the sin of forced sex or gang rape. It’s my contention that the great sin that incurred the wrath of our Lord was the city’s unwillingness to allow citizens the freedom to follow their consciences and to seek the will of God.
Lot was just trying to do God’s will to help the oppressed by protecting the men. Since the Mosaic law had not yet been given at that time and to my knowledge there was not yet any scripture explicitly forbidding homosexuality, and since homosexuality was likely common in other ancient cities, it seems the cry to heaven must have been about what almost all cries to heaven are about: oppression. The men of the city not only engaged in violent orgiastic behavior; they forced everyone else to approve of their behavior. They would not allow Lot to protect the men. “Don’t do this wicked thing,” was not enough for them. They were going to force themselves on the angels, whether they liked it or not, and Lot had no right to keep them from it.
Sadly, that is precisely where we are in America and much of the western world today. The LGBTQ community has become such bullies that we no longer have the freedom to resist their agenda.
If we say that we disagree with their beliefs, we are considered bigots. Teachers who refuse to use the preferred pronouns of a student born male and who wants to be called a girl are fired for insubordination. Website designers who have no desire to do work that might go against their consciences lose their businesses if they don’t make a website for, say, a gay wedding. If a school board votes not to fly the LGBTQ flag, the school district is considered “unsafe” for LGBTQ people.
Rather than enjoy the privilege of engaging in their sexual proclivities in the privacy of their own homes, the LGBTQ community has waged war against anyone who believes that any sexual belief or practice could be harmful. In fact, even THINKING such things is evil. According to Healthline, “A person doesn’t have to put these behaviors or beliefs into words for them to count as transphobia, either.” How to Identify and Stop Transphobia: 12 Examples, Next Steps (healthline.com) (I’ve put them into 1,700 words here, so I’m probably worse than Hitler.)
Everyone must condone almost any belief about sexuality that an “underserved” LGBTQ person chooses to espouse, no matter how risky or costly that behavior may be.
It seems odd, then (and hypocritical) that the gold standard for sexual morality nowadays is consent. Even the most active and promiscuous in the LGBTQ community likely still say that sex should be consensual. In the West, rape is still a crime, and even in the sadomasochist community there are contracts that people sign indicating that they give consent for another person to own them and control them sexually. They “consent” to being someone else’s sex slave. (Note: True consent requires full knowledge and awareness of what is happening, full faculty of mind, an absence of coercion, and a lack of addiction…sex is an addiction.)
The LGBTQ folk speak from both sides of their mouths about consent. They say engaging in the act must be consensual, but they don’t have room for anyone who doesn’t consent to approving their behavior. What if we don’t consent to flying their flag? Or to using their pronouns? Or to being called a bigot because we are following our conscience?
And what if my conscience tells me that the best path to peace and one requirement to having a friendship with God is to give my consent to Him and Him only? “THY WILL BE DONE!” Sexually speaking, being chaste for God is a noble and enlightened path and not enough people try it. Does the LGBTQ community have a place for folks like this, folks who choose chastity for God? After all, chastity is one of the fetishes of that community.
And why is everyone in the LGBTQ community so consumed with the notion that we must have sex? Why do they still believe Freud (fraud) that sexual repression can lead to very bad psychological outcomes? Does anyone in the LGBTQ community ever consider the bad outcomes of NOT repressing our sexual desires? Here's a short list:
HIV, syphilis, depression, loss of family time, divorce, herpes, HPV, cervical cancer, gonorrhea, addiction, secrecy and separation from others, guilt, shame, fear, chlamydia, pubic lice, trichomoniasis, abortion and financial ruin. Even the disgraced CDC acknowledges that “STIs acquired in 2018 cost the American healthcare system nearly $16 billion in direct medical costs alone.”
Also, did you know that the US government spends $28 billion per year for its domestic response to AIDS? Among other things, it subsidizes PrEP, which gay men take in order to “protect” themselves from HIV, enabling them to have multiple partners, in some cases as many as 15 per night…all without condoms. According to HIV.gov, “[Biden’s] FY 2024 budget also reproposes mandatory spending on a Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Delivery Program to End the HIV Epidemic in the United States (“PrEP Delivery Program”). The PrEP Delivery Program will provide PrEP and associated services at no cost to uninsured and underinsured individuals and expand the number of providers serving underserved communities. The President requests $237 million in FY 24 for the first year of this multi-year program.”
In other words, the LGBTQ community is responsible for billions of lost dollars per year so they can be as promiscuous as they want. We’ve spent about $7 billion so far so that gays could get Monkeypox vaccines for free.
Sexual restraint costs nothing.
I don’t believe God destroyed Sodom because of the gays. He destroyed it because they gays were oppressing everyone else.
When people are forced to concur with untruths and are prevented from following their own consciences, one might expect to see destruction as in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah. It’s likely only a matter of time when we will not only have to condone the LGBTQ way of life but also join in.
Lot’s admonition, “Do not do this wicked thing,” is falling again on deaf ears. But it’s not an admonition against sexual depravity. It’s a warning against stepping on the right of God’s children to follow their conscience and to seek Him. It’s our well formed consciences that will lead us to sanctity, and we can’t form them well when we are oppressed. And sanctity is the entire purpose of our brief existence on this big spinning ball.
The angels stepped in to protect Lot and blinded the men who were banging on his door. Still, the Sodomites continued to grope for the door in their darkness. Their lust would not be abated. Is that true of our LGBTQ friends today? Christians are commanded to love them. But the LGBTQ ideology has no such command to love or to respect, and they are showing they have no plans to do either.
The picture above is entitled “The punishment of the Sodomites with blindness.”