@Coleman, you are correct in your first statement that “sodom had nothing to do with homosexuals,” but you muddy the waters when you then write, “It was not homosexuality alone.” I believe most people today are aware of what is called “prison rape,” which is a terrible problem in our prison system in the United States, even in the present day. Many also know that in time of war, often rape of not only women but also men is practiced by the victorious troops. Neither of these types of “sexual” activity has anything to do with “homosexuality,” but, instead, it is more properly termed “man on man sex.” These types of rape are practiced in order to increase the sense that one man or group of men is dominant over another man or group of men. It is used as a means of control through demonstrating superior power and through demeaning the victim through humiliation. It is this kind of man on man sex that the residents of Sodom were threatening against Lot’s guests, not “homosexual sex.” When we use the term “homosexual” as a blanket term referring to all man on man sex, we fail to recognize the variety of ways in which human beings have used sexual acts throughout history, not only to demonstrate love, to produce children, to give one another mutual pleasure, and so on, but also to dominate, to humiliate, to brutalize, to punish, and to enact all kinds of other hurtful and monstrous kinds of intentions. We need to use words carefully and to make clear what we mean when we use them, especially when words like “homosexual” have been so regularly misapplied.