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Are you proposing it was only for the sin of attempting to rape angels? Not much of that around anymore.

I'm half--- but only half--- ironic on that.

The wages of any kind of sin is death. And the prophet Malachi says God hates divorce.

Plus Isaiah:

"Hear the word of the Lord,
you rulers of Sodom!
Listen to the teaching of our God,
you people of Gomorrah!...
your hands are full of blood.
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove the evil of your doings
from before my eyes;
cease to do evil,
learn to do good;
seek justice,
rescue the oppressed,
defend the orphan,
plead for the widow."

Somehow, He doesn't specify "stop trying to anally rape angels"--- although no doubt that was one of their many abominations. In this passage, God says they failed to do justice for the oppressed, the orphan and the widow.

In the NT, certainly, St. Jude speaks of the sins of unnatural sexual vice:

Jude 1:7
"Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire."

But then again, the questions of pride and greed, and the neglect of the poor and needy, are specified as Sodom's sins:

Ezekiel 16:49
"This was the guilt of your sister Sodom:
she and her daughters had pride,
excess of food,
and prosperous ease,
but did not aid the poor and needy."

So: pride, materialistic excess --- it's just a tad wider and deeper than the specific vice of active homosexual conduct. Straight people are given no reason to think they are exempt from the sins of Sodom...

I do not disagree. In fact, I tend to favor the Catholic view on divorce while recognizing that there are no viable alternatives in some narrowly defined circumstances such as serial infidelity, refusal to work or otherwise contribute anything meaningful toward the partnership, refusal to abandon drug and alcohol addiction, violence toward spouse and children and the like. These cover maybe 15% of all divorces today. The other 85% are bogus excuses like "no longer meets my emotional needs", incompatibility and the like.

If allowed to bloom and grow, this type of crap will eventually destroy a society almost as efficiently as rampant homosexuality did to Sodom and Gomorrah.

It is just that Sodom and Gomorrah is an express highway to destruction. Quickie divorce, pride, materialistic excess and the like take awhile longer.