All that said, basically, the same principle applies to the Sodom story. It’s clear that, since “all the men” in Sodom surrounded Lot’s house demanding that the strangers be given them so they might “know” them – i.e., I would say, “put them in their place through shaming via raping them, so they know who’s boss while they’re in town” – it is not true that all the men of Sodom are “sodomites” in the modern sense of that word, but it is true that, like all fearful persons, they wanted to make sure that they were in control of their own territory, and they wanted to take pre-emptive action to make sure these strangers – who were taken in as guests by this guy, Lot, who wasn’t “from around here” – didn’t have any weapons on them or, by being emasculated through having been raped, would not be in any condition to use those weapons to harm the citizens of Sodom or – should they be spies for some other tribe – that they would go back to those for whom they were spying with the information that “you don’t want to mess with those Sodomites, because they know how to band together, and together, they would be hard to beat.” So, here again, it is the abuse of power that is at issue, not the homosexual activity.