Quick test out there for ya: According to the Bible and God Himself, why was Sodom Destroyed?

Congratulations, if you answered "the gays" (or some variant therein) you've fallen pray to one of the many, many cultural misreadings of the Bible.

God explicitly states why He destroyed Sodom in Ezekiel 16:49, 50. "... [T]his was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy. Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me."

Now before you shout 'a-ha! The word abominations can only refer to The Gays(tm)!!" remember Hebrew prohecy/poetry follows a parallel structure. It says the same thing twice. Arrogance, richness and not helping the poor /are/ the abominations for which Sodom got brimstone'd.

@sashahamilton i've often thought that if i wanted to make my old southern baptist church really hate me, i could preach a real great sermon about how Gammorah and Sodom do have a really relevant message to sexual morality-

and it's that the towns, besides being greedy, perpetuated rape culture on an enormous systematic scale.

kind of like how star football players get away with raping women because "he's got such a bright future"...