Homosexual monogamous relationships and Sodom and Gomorrah
The story of Sodom and Gomorrah is irrelevant to homosexuality because it does not address loving, monogamous relationships. It is only decrying gang rape and violence, nothing else.
Biblical Response
Surely there is everything wrong with violence, whether sexual or not. And there is everything wrong with gang rape as well. But to note that these things are wrong does not explain many of the issues in the narrative of Genesis 19, as well as the rest of the Bible’s references to Sodom and Gomorrah.
There was no violence on the part of the crowd until Lot identified their desires as wicked. Was Lot wrong to identify homosexual desires for these men as wicked? And was Peter wrong to interpret the story from Genesis as involving daily ungodliness on the part of the Sodomites? Are we to assume the Sodomites engaged in daily gang rapes, or is it apparent that it was their lifestyle that tormented his soul?
The insertion of the concept of “monogamous, loving homosexual relationships” into the biblical discussion begs a number of issues. First, very few homosexual relationships are, in fact, monogamous. Second, to call a relationship “loving” in a biblical sense means it is in accordance with God’s will and is fulfilling His purpose, resulting in His glory. And finally, it assumes that a homosexual relationship thusly described is part of the biblical concept to begin with, and such is an unfounded assertion refuted by the fair and careful examination of Scripture. Indeed, it is directly contrary to God’s law, and to that truth we now turn.
White, J. R., & Niell, J. D. (2002). The Same Sex Controversy: Defending and Clarifying the Bible’s Message about Homosexuality (pp. 50–51). Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers.
The insertion of the concept of “monogamous, loving homosexual relationships” into the biblical discussion begs a number of issues. First, very few homosexual relationships are, in fact, monogamous. Second, to call a relationship “loving” in a biblical sense means it is in accordance with God’s will and is fulfilling His purpose, resulting in His glory. And finally, it assumes that a homosexual relationship thusly described is part of the biblical concept to begin with, and such is an unfounded assertion refuted by the fair and careful examination of Scripture. Indeed, it is directly contrary to God’s law, and to that truth we now turn.
White, J. R., & Niell, J. D. (2002). The Same Sex Controversy: Defending and Clarifying the Bible’s Message about Homosexuality (pp. 50–51). Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers.
