Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Cancer Podcast for Living, Understanding and Defending

Your Catholic Faith.

One very delicate area of Christian apologetics in our times is homosexuality.

There's a great deal of confusion about what exactly the Bible says.

This is in part because the Bible has relatively few passages that deal directly with homosexuality

and those that it does have can be somewhat controversial among them.

The Genesis 19 account of lots, visitors and the people of Sodom and the ultimate destruction

of Sodom.

What is all of that about?

Well, in general, in social media, you'll see a kind of contestation about what that's

about.

And we wanted to share one very respectable view from a respectable minister.

This is Reverend Brandon Robertson telling us what Genesis 19 is really about.

So this is wrong.

The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible were not destroyed because of homosexuality.

In fact, the Bible tells us exactly why they were destroyed.

Ezekiel 1649 says, and I quote,

Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom.

They were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned, and they did not help the poor and the needy.

According to the Bible, Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed not because of homosexuality,

but because they were inhospitable.

They were selfish.

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