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...gays who had scratched their way into the city's establishment blanched when Milk announced his first run for supervisor in 1973, but Milk had a powerful idea: he would reach downward, not upward, for support. He convinced the growing gay masses of "Sodom by the Sea" that they could have a role in city leadership, and they turned out to form "human billboards" for him along major thoroughfares. In doing so, they outed themselves in a way once unthinkable. It was invigorating...
...staircase away. The tour guide breezed by the condom stash, labeled "the goods." Finally, Hack ducked out of a required safe-sex seminar complete with demonstrations on dental dams. In short, he says, life at Yale seems to follow a basic dictum: Anything goes. "Exactly the biblical description of Sodom and Gomorrah," he notes...
...perfection. We all have obstacles in our lives to overcome, obstacles that cause us to sin. Those with homosexual desires face a very powerful obstacle indeed, but no less than any other sinners, they are called to overcome it. This camp of thought says that the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by the Lord in Genesis 19 is caused by the towns' inhabitants being inhospitable rather than the men of Sodom asking to have sex with angels who appeared as men. This is an utterly baseless claim...
...essentially pre-technological context of human evolution, impulses such as gluttony, greed, even lust, were often blunted by scarcity. Only amid the material abundance that came with agriculture and grew thereafter could self-indulgence regularly reach grotesque levels. (Sodom and Gomorrah lay in the fertile plains. Their residents sinned amid plenty while Abraham herded his flock in rustic innocence on dryer terrain.) Similarly, anger acquired a new layer of evil with the invention of knives and spears, to say nothing of guns...
...they recede as the medium matures. The printing press has a long history of revolutionary tracts, such as Tom Paine's The Rights of Man and Jefferson's Declaration of Independence -- along with what are now erotic classics, such as the Marquis de Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom...