Beck: Gay Activists 'Are Making Exactly The Same Demands As Were Happening In Sodom And Gomorrah' | Right Wing Watch

Let's just say for the sake of argument that Beck is correct in his twisted understanding of the Sodom story, "two angels arrived at Lot's house when the men of Sodom and Gomorrah demanded they be sent outside so they could have sex with them, which Lot rejected, offering his own daughter as a substitute."  According to Beck, "to know" means they want sex so from his perspective the story is about an attempted gang rape.  That's bad, right? And, what does that have to do with homosexuality?

Ignoring Ezekiel 16:49-50 for now (ya know the verses that kind of tell you what the Sodom story was all about), here is what Beck ignores; as do most fundies simply explained by John Corvino   "Lot is the so-called hero of the story,,, so when faced with a mob of angry rapists, what does he do? Why, he does what any upstanding man would do. He offers them his virgin daughters. If you ever want an example of the Bible portraying women as expendable property, you need look no further than the Sodom and Gomorrah story."

What is intriguing about Corvino's take on the matter, and it is something I never thought about in all my years of study, the same plot occurs again in Judges 19, "This time, however, the guest tosses his concubine outside and closes the door. (Again, he’s supposed to be one of the good guys.) The mob violently rapes her until morning, when she finally collapses dead."

Congratulations Glenn, you taught your daughter that she was an expendable piece of property.

The reason he opposes gay marriage, he explained to her, is because gay activists only want it so that they can use it to force Christians to violate their faith, just like during the time of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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"Think of the people who won't do floral arrangements for gay weddings," he continued. "Think about the people who are bakers. Now there's another one with a DJ. They just say, 'I don't want to participate.' That's what Lot was saying, we don’t want to participate. And in exchange for not participating, I'll give you something I shouldn't be offering, but I'll comprise this far but no further. We're making exactly the same mistakes and they are making exactly the same demands as were happening in Sodom and Gomorrah."

Beck: Gay Activists 'Are Making Exactly The Same Demands As Were Happening In Sodom And Gomorrah' | Right Wing Watch