There’s A Lot Wrong with the Bible’s Story of Lot

Trigger alert — If you interpret the Bible literally or are easily offended by challenging the Bible’s contents, do me a favor and don’t read this.

You likely know the story of Lot, or at least you think you do — set in the city of Sodom, one of the cities the Bible notes as being destroyed by God because the people are deemed immoral and beyond redemption. Some people contend Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because the cities’ men had sex with other men, which is an odd interpretation of the facts, because gay men have nothing to do with the…