[Verginius Rufus]

The verse you skipped over is interesting: Lot tries to placate the crowd by offering them his two virgin daughters. Not exactly Father of the Year material.

There's a similar story in Judges 19, when a crowd in the city of Gibeah in Benjamin demands that a Levite spending the night in their town (at the house of an Ephraimite, an outsider there just as Lot was in Sodom) be handed over to them to be sexually abused; the householder offers them his virgin daughter and the Levite's concubine. Eventually the crowd accepts the concubine instead and abuse her so severely that she dies from the ordeal.

[Fitzcarraldo]

The verse you skipped over is interesting: Lot tries to placate the crowd by offering them his two virgin daughters. Not exactly Father of the Year material.

Lot had become depraved in that evil city. There is no effort to hide this fact.

But because they saw fit to leave, they were spared (all except Lot's wife, of course).

[Fitzcarraldo]

There's a similar story in Judges 19, when a crowd in the city of Gibeah in Benjamin demands that a Levite spending the night in their town (at the house of an Ephraimite, an outsider there just as Lot was in Sodom) be handed over to them to be sexually abused; the householder offers them his virgin daughter and the Levite's concubine. Eventually the crowd accepts the concubine instead and abuse her so severely that she dies from the ordeal.

Is the history of Israel one of absolute purity and righteousness? No. To the contrary, it's the struggle of Man's nature striving to overcome it's own perversions and injustice. Israel ended up being divided and conquered for its failure to honor the laws of God.

[tuckrdout]

I know. I did skip it on purpose. I wanted to keep the discussion on the subject of the attitude of homosexuals, instead of the attitude of disdain that middle eastern men have for women. Although that attitude does continue to this day as well.