With all the cherry picking of the Bible to find the bits that put down homosexuality, I thought that this article might come in useful. It's called "A Question of Honor: The Genderization of Domination - Xenophobia and Misogyny in the Story of Sodom". To quote from the article, "[u]nderneath a veneer of homophobic propaganda, [the story of Sodom] is a story of Ancient Mediterranean/ Near Eastern values that is more complicated, and painful, than it seems. Primarily, the system's male-honor/ female-shame dichotomy genderizes the concept of domination, linking together the story's twin horrors of implicit misogyny and explicit xenophobia"

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