I bring up the entire context from the numerous versus condemning homosexuality, especially Jude, with homo-apologists often. Some have had the gall to tell me that Jude was mistaken.
Not surprisingly, there are some nasty comments posted to the Monsignor’s blog.
Bunch of libertarians.... inhospitable libertarians.... :p
Given the text in Genesis and from Jude, how can there be any debate? Homosexualiy is a sin ! No debate, no discission.
“No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing. Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them.
I’m guessing Lot was never a ‘father of the year’ candidate.
I don’t know. Offering to bugger someone is pretty inhospitable.
Homosexuality in various forms was not Sodoms only “sins”...
But they right up there with some of the greatest ones..
Like envy and lascivious promiscuity.. masochism and sadism..
Sodom had it going on with malfeasance.. of many types..
Like sexual dysfunction.. child abuse, and cheating on many levels..
Much like New York City..
Come on guys! The story is clear. The meaning is clear. Homosexuality is wrong. None of this other crap matters. Homosexyuality is wrong. That’s the meaning of this story. There is no other meaning dispite channel 12 (Government Sponsered Radio). It wasn’t that the sodomites were inhospitible. It wasn’t that they didn’t share. Look at the words. They are clear. Then draw your own conclusion. That is what the bible is all about. There is no ambiguity. There is no cloudiness. It is perfectly clear what the offense was. It was homosexuality. Of that there is no question. Read it for yourself.
Of course some wits have suggested that if the major sin of Sodom was rampant male on male homosexuality; was the sin of Gomorrah that of Northampton, Massachusetts?
It is horrifying and also elucidating the main point, that sodomy is a worse sin than heterosexual rape -- since Abraham offers to at least not to step outside the boundaries of normal, heterosexual sexual appetite.
homosexual acts are central to the sins of Sodom
Indeed, other sins flow from this cardinal sin of sodomy. That is because a homosexual act is pure selfishness, -- there is no redeeming quality to it as there is no possibility of an offspring. No wonder the sodomites also turn out to suffer from "pride, excess or greed, and indifference to the poor and needy" -- they only think of their own pleasure.
Why not become Wiccan? Or form their own religion?
We were at a mission last night and the priest said, “If you went to Lowes and bought an extension cord and got home and saw that it had two male ends you would take it back! It is defective. It won’t work!”
Genesis 19 is not the source of the prohibition of homosexuality. Homosexuality was already a captial offense, and it remains one today.