Taking back Sodom

On a tour to Bethlehem, I overheard a devote Christian woman sitting behind me on the bus, discussing her aversion to visiting the dead sea as a cite of tourism, since once it was the site of Sodom.

Quick recap of Sodom: Story appears both in Muslem tradition and in the Hebrew Bible. Catch up on your Sodom facts on Wikapedia.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodom_and_Gomorrah

Its been understood traditionally as God destroying a city of (you guessed it), folks engaging in SODOMY, because boy on boy action is such a terrible terrible sin! Even though you ask me, its is clear from the Hebrew Bible, that whats going on in Sodom is not alternative family structures and loving relationships (did that exist anywhere in the ancient world ???) but specific kind of prohibited rape.

Lot has a bunch of angels over for dinner, and the people of the city come to Lot’s door and say, “where [are] the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.” (Gen 19:5).

They ask, the for the angels, so they can gang- bang them, and Lot our good man, who God saves from the fire and brimstone, replies, “I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as [is] good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof Gen 19: 8).” Aka, don’t take the dudes, instead rape my daughters. In other words, its ok to penetrate women against their will, because, hell they are property anyway, but do that to dudes and your fry. This seems to be the moral of Sodom. (Look you got to start somewhere, they started with banning boy-boy rape)

Oh, and the best part, is that the area of Sodom and bunch of other “bad” cities would become uninhabitable desert for all time – hence the dead sea as Sodom fits the bill just right.

So, how about it – lets have the pride parade in Sodom next year – transform the history of the dead, salty earth into one of human love and egalitarian co-existence, no matter who is doing the penetrating (as long as its consenting adults). It is time to take back Sodom for several reasons, the best three I could think of are below. Post your reasons in comments.

Tommorow, I’m leaving Israel – and my last words from the holy land are indeed – “Take back Sodom” A fitting last thought to a rather strange and random summer.

1. God doesn’t get to just destroy cities – its time someone sent The Word up there. \

2. It could a beautiful location for a night rave in the desert.

3. Somewhere overtime, what seams like the literal meaning of the Hebrew bible got interpreted away – even back then the story was about the ethics of consent vs. no consent sex , versus who was doing the fucking. Thus, would it not be perfect restoration of damaged earth to make Sodom a celebration/location of consensual sexuality in all its many forms.