Q. In your last main chapter, you focus on the fact that the story of Sodom and Gomorrah is not in the main about homosexuality but rather about violations of hospitality. And yet Jude surely suggests that sexual perversion was at least part of the issue. Right?
A. Yes, he does and I think I mention Jude briefly (or should have!). But then the question is what is the nature of the perversion. After all there is a whole list of possibilities, probably all intended) including gang rape. My point in the book is not that the same-sex activity is not an issue there, but that there are so many things going wrong that you can’t say that it is only about same-sex activity.
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