Looking at Sodom

The other day I read in the Boulder Daily Camera that a guy was arrested for hitting a man soliciting signatures on Pearl Street for a movement advocating domestic partnerships.

Here is the headline “Man arrested on suspicion of bias-motivated attack”

The story goes on to say that the guy who hit the homosexual man did so after getting into a pushing match and walking away. He then returned 15 minutes later connecting a hook punch into the face of the gay man.

Now the question I asked was why? Why was this man’s anger so focused on hitting someone because they were gay? I doubt this happened simply because some guy was soliciting signatures, though it does make it hard walking down Pearl Street during election years.

In fact just the other night I was asked to sign the same petition while walking down Pearl. Immediately this story came to mind and I looked at the guy asking me to sign and I thought, “hmm, the proper response would not be hitting him.” So instead I said, “No thanks.” And moved on. However, I did get some remarks about not signing. I also noticed that in the immediate area of this solicitor were about five homosexual men just hanging out. Not together, but spread out, as if to pounce if any trouble started to happen. The whole thing was just kind of strange.

So why did I bring this up? Well, it is all about hate. I think every group of humans throughout the history of this world have hated some other group. Mel Gibson has been in the news recently also, the big deal is not his drunk driving it's his anti-Semitic slurs. The other reason is to ask this question, what does the Bible say about homosexuality?

So what are you thoughts? Are you thinking about Sodom? What was Sodom’s sin?

Hope to see you.