Sodomy these days isn't defined as the Biblical Sodomite was in the Old Testament. Today it means "anal or oral copulation with a member of the same or opposite sex" (yes, oral sex).
However the Biblical version of being a Sodomite is vastly different. The town of Sodom was of course destroyed by God in that Old Testament fairy tail, which has been completely misinterpreted to assume that it was because of anal sex happening in Sodom. This was not the case at all.
Interestingly enough, Jesus did not interpret the sin of Sodom as sexual. First, Jesus says nothing specific about the sin of homosexuality anywhere in the Gospels. He does of course speak of sexual sins, but all of us, regardless of our sexual orientation, commit a few of these. Second, when Jesus instructs his disciples to preach in the towns of Israel, Jesus warns that those who do not receive them peacefully will be judged more harshly than the people of Sodom and Gomorrah (Matt. 10: 5-15).Yes, the sin of Sodom was that they were a bunch of Peter Duttons, pretty much.
Jesus joins other ancient authorities in viewing the sins of the Sodomites as the abuse of strangers, neglecting the poor and needy, and the stigmatizing of outsiders. For example, Ezekiel says that the people of Sodom and Gomorrah "had pride, surfeit of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and the needy" (16:49-50); and the Wisdom of Solomon says that they "refused to receive strangers when they came to them" (19.14). On the other hand, an early Christian book I Clement states that Lot was saved "because of his hospitality and piety" (11.11). It is significant that when Leviticus condemns "men who lie with men," it does not mention the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho
“The guilt of Sodom was: pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but she did not aid the poor and needy.“ Ezekiel 16:49 #Auspol #Manus pic.twitter.com/OGCnwjFshB— Fr Rod Bower (@FrBower) September 28, 2017
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