A point of praise for Dan, DCP, and Smoot

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The story of Sodom and Gomorrah was not about homosexuality, it was about inhospitality. Specifically the practice of humiliating men with rape.

Stephen Smoot was the first speaker after lunch, addressing the topic of “Abraham and the Stranger at Sodom and Gomorrah: Reading the Bible and Navigating LGBT Identity.” He argued, quite correctly from my perspective, that the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah wasn’t homosexuality as such but the abuse of strangers and guests in the two “cities of the plain,” directly contrasted with Abraham’s hospitality toward the three angelic strangers who had visited him shortly before. (Hospitality, he explained in some detail, was a much richer and fundamental concept in the ancient Middle East than it commonly is among us.”)

DCP also characterizes the story as a hospitality issue here, around the 30 minute mark.

https://followhim.co/wp-content/uploads ... LISH-1.pdf

And if you only have a few minutes to get the gist of the idea, Dan has a wonderful video here:

https://youtu.be/kE7CbFwjW-s

It’s a real shame that this story of Sodom has been misinterpreted for so long and led to the oppression of so many. Kudos to the Mormon apologists for telling the real story.

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Sorry residents of ancient city of Sodom. Note to self. Be accurate in the future. Don't incorrectly refer to it as sodomy. Just "buggery" from now on.