Trump, Pence, Ryan and the whole GOP are Sodomites.

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Trump’s Washington Reminds This Rabbi Of Modern-Day Sodom



Danya Ruttenberg April 27, 2017 John Martin/Wikipedia

Trump, Pence, Ryan and the whole GOP are Sodomites.

This doesn’t mean that they engage in sodomy, per se. Rather, the Republican leadership today is guilty of sins so grievous that God found necessary to destroy their (im)moral forebears in the Torah.

The actual text of the Sodom story in Genesis 18 and 19 doesn’t give us much information about why that city (along with Gomorrah) is so terrible that God decides to destroy it with fire and brimstone. God describes their sin as great and exceedingly serious. Indeed, the story includes a vignette in which the residents of the town demand that Lot hand over his male guests to the residents “so that they might know them” — presumably in a sexual way. (This, of course, is the origin of the term “sodomy.”) However, a parallel scene in Judges 19 in which a woman is handed over, raped and murdered — and the perpetrators condemned — makes it clear that whatever is going on here, the problem isn’t necessarily loving, consensual sex between men.

Interestingly, the Jewish tradition — including Biblical sources — doesn’t even believe that the sin of Sodom is sexual assault, or poor hospitality. Rather, as the prophet Ezekiel says, “This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: arrogance! She and her daughters had plenty of bread and untroubled tranquility, yet she did not support the poor and needy.” The crime so heinous that God torched the whole city was that of hoarding resources and leaving the economically vulnerable to suffer without assistance.

One doesn’t have to look hard to see how this accusation applies to an administration whose proposed budget cuts meal and nutrition assistance for impoverished children, seniors, and pregnant and nursing mothers and infants. The parallel becomes even starker in light of the over $20 million the government has already spent on Trump’s golf trips and $500,000 per day on Melania’s choice to stay in New York. The White House is not only withholding support for our country’s most vulnerable, but burning through public money for their own “untroubled tranquility” and devising tax cuts to further enhance the tranquility of the very wealthy......................

Read more: http://forward.com/opinion/370241/trumps-washington-modern-day-sodom/

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