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WHAT ARE SODOM AND GOMORRAH? PETE BUTTIGIEG FAC ANTI-GAY PROTTS CG BIBLIL CI
Was the s of Sodom and Gomorrah really homosexualy, or was xenophobia? I've been readg this seri of says about the origs of homophobia, and I wanted to know what you guys thought of .
A History of Homophobia: Essays by Rictor Norton on the Historil Roots of Homophobia om Ancient Israel to the End of the Middle Ag — Sectn 2: The Dtctn of Sodom and Gomorrah. Consir first the followg two vers om Genis, which are often terpreted as meang that the cy of Sodom was stroyed bee s habants were supposedly homosexual rapists:. Although many people have terpreted this as meang the crowd wanted to engage homoerotic terurse wh the men (or rather, to gang rape them), an alternative terpretatn is that the word "know" is NOT beg ed here as a phemism for sex, but rather jt lerally means the crowd wanted to know who the men were, the implitn beg that the people of Sodom had a xenophobic fear of anyone they didn't know g to their cy.
In other words, Sodom was stroyed bee of xenophobia, not homosexualy. An ancient society full of homosexual rapists, or an ancient society full of xenophobic natnalists (i.