Regarding Christian Republicans not "caring" about the poor, I would say that they realize it's not the responsibility of government to do it. There's no such things as coerced charity. And leftists see government as a tool to relieve them of the responsibility to be charitable, and as has been shown over and over again, leftists tend to be less charitable as individuals.
For too long, government, big business (GE anyone?), and "big finance" (GS anyone?) have had a corrupt relationship. That can be fixed, but unfortunately, it can be laid at the footsteps of everyone in politics. People really should be seeing some serious prison time for what they've done to the country, but the problem is that the people who make and enforce the laws are in bed with the law breakers.
Mark
The grevious sin of Sodom was deviant sexual sin:
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of the eternal fire. (Jude 7) "Sodomy and beastiality."
The sin which we see exhibited in Genesis 19 is not "mistreatment of strangers and travelers". Rather the sin is the attempted sodomite gang rape of the two angels who visited Lot at Sodom:
The men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: And they called to Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. (Genesis 19:4-5)Lot offered them instead his two unmarried virgin daughters, but the sodomites wanted the men and promised "deal worse with thee (Lot), than with them" (19:9) and were about to break through the door, when the men were struck blind.