--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 2/26/06 12:19:32 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > suggests otherwise--i.e., that the men of Sodom weren't > homosexual or even bisexual, and that the threatened rape > was not a function of sexual desire on their part, but > rather an attempt to intimidate Lot's visitors into > leaving forthwith. > > > And Why did they want them to leave so quickly? Was rape the only > means of intimidating them?
According to the Bible, they didn't want to have to share their prosperity with every stranger who came along. I suspect they could have found other means, but rape was a pretty effective threat, and, as I said, a common means of doing so at that time. Plus which, they probably would have enjoyed the actual intimidation and humiliation of the strangers. Rape generally--including heterosexual rape--is not about sex but about power. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
