One other thing I came to realize while preparing for the qualifying exams for a Ph.D. I never finished was that a whole context of relationality exists between Lot and the other residents of Sodom that no one has ever mentioned, to my knowledge; and it could well be that the violation of this God-ordered relationship is much more behind the eventual destruction of Sodom than anything concrete the Sodom-dwellers did as narrated in Gen. 19. Or, at least the concreteness of the acts revealed the basic perversion inherent in the relationship between Sodom and God that called forth God’s destruction (since, if you recall, God had already told Abraham of God’s plan to destroy Sodom prior to the Gen. 19 incident; cf. Gen. 18.20-21).