🏳️‍🌈🏺🛐 Sodom Bible 2

🏳️‍🌈🏺2-Gay in History: Bible 2🏺🏳️‍🌈

Genesis 19 is one of the most misused passages in Scripture. It has been weaponized against queer people—but the Bible itself never calls Sodom’s sin “homosexuality.” Every ancient interpretation points to something else: violence and suspicion in place of hospitality.

In the story, two angels arrive in Sodom after it lost a recent war (Gen 14). Lot meets them at the gates and hides them at his home. Worried about spies and foreigners, the townsmen surround Lot’s house and demand the strangers so they may “know” them, an obviously violent double entendre, and allusion to gang-assault, a wartime act meant to humiliate enemies.

Lot’s shocking offer of his daughters seems to try to divert violence from his guests, not protect anyone’s virtue. The mod is far more wary of strangers than aroused.

This same script appears in Judges 19, where a gang demands access to a male guest and he throws them his slave girl to be beaten in his stead. The Bible presents both scenes as nightmares of inhospitality, paranoia, and patriarchal brutality, not sexuality.

Every later biblical reference agrees:

• Ezekiel 16:49— Sodom’s sin was arrogance, neglect of the poor, and oppression.

• Wisdom 19:13— “hatred of strangers.”

• Isaiah 1:10— injustice against the vulnerable.

• Matthew 10:14/ Luke 10:10— Jesus uses Sodom as a warning about refusing hospitality, not anything sexual or homosexual.

The idea that Sodom was destroyed for same-sex desire doesn’t appears until over a thousand years after, and six centuries after the Hebrew Bible was written.

Philo is the first to sexualize the story, claiming the men of sodom craved the divine flesh and refused God’s messengers. While Clement of Alexandria in 190 CE becomes the first writer to use Sodom against men who love men.

None of this reflects the Torah’s own message of radical hospitality to the stranger, and its own internal commentary about the passage.

It took another few centuries before it became a common misinterpretation . But the context shows a paranoid people acting violently, not two people engaging in consensual or loving sexual activity. It’s just not very gay.