Melodie, I’ve read the bible through at least once a year, every year, since I was eight years old. I’m now 52. I’ve read numerous translations, and had others translated for me by people who read the original languages in which the bible was written. Other than the Pastor who hosts this forum, you are probably NOT going to find a person better versed in the bible than me.Therefore listen to me when I say to you that you are wrong. The sins of Sodom and Gomorrah were disobedience, rape, and pedophelia. If you read the sections of Genesis where the judging of Sodom took place, you’ll see that the Angels who visited Lot took the forms of YOUTHS, not of men. Lot offered the rape gangs who gathered outside his door his wife, his daughters, his servants male and female – even himself. But because the Angels looked like young boys, the rape gangs preferred them – probably because part of what they enjoyed was the torture associated with first-time rape.