[Mrs. Don-o]

You may have misconstrued my intention.

I'm not reading it outside of a homosexual context. I'm reading it within the Biblical context.

Nor does Ezekiel read it outside of a homosexual context. You may notice this is one of the verses I have bolded:

"Instead, they became arrogant
and committed abominations before me;
then, as you have seen, I removed them."

I am confident that by "abominations" he is referring to homosexual vice.

It is not unusual in the sweep of the Judeo-Christian moral vision, to associate sexual vice, economic oppression, and idolatry/apostasy as tightly-bound offenses.

In fact, it was a commonplace, I have read, for Medieval homilists to focus in on this sin triad: luxury-usury-sodomy.

One never hears of usury anymore; as for luxury and sodomy, they are commonly, and demonically, regarded as desiderata.

[BlatherNaut]

You did say "It's dicey to classify evils according to God's measure of things", and connected the "Sins Which Cry Out to Heaven for Vengeance" with pride, satiation, complacency, etc. (emphasizing the latter in bold print). Your implication seems to be that God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah not only because of homosexual acts but also in response to the sins of pride, satiation, complacency, etc. Is that what you meant to convey?

In fact, it was a commonplace, I have read, for Medieval homilists to focus in on this sin triad: luxury-usury-sodomy.

Equating homosexual acts with sins less abhorrent to God is a tactic employed by those seeking to normalize homosexual relations within the Church. They are also attempting, with an increasing lack of subtlety, to equate sodomy with heterosexual behavior. The fact remains that God did not “rain upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire out of heaven" as a punishment for ‘usury” or “luxury”, but in response to the unnatural acts committed in those places. The distinction is an important one, particularly in light of the fact that we are reading here about a 'Shadow Council' comprised of high-ranking churchmen attempting to push acceptance of "gay unions".