Sodom, Gomorrah and China
Some top politician in Malaysia could go to jail for 10 years. His crime- Sodomy. It’s not so much the imprisonment of all homosexuals that shocks me, but the choice of the word ‘sodomy’. Who uses that anymore? This led me to look up something I’ve had at the back of my mind for some time now- the biblical origins of this word. My extensive research (wikipedia) has taught me that Sodom was a village somewhere near the Dead Sea where people were pretty much living it up. In the words of God, they “were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned”. They also indulged in heavy drinking, drugs and sex. Now obviously, if you’re drunk and don’t have much work to do, the boredom might lead one to experimentation such as gay sex or bestiality. Why did God have to take this so personally? Alas, he did, and he destroyed the entire village! I’m sure he just didn’t want people to enjoy themselves while he had to live a lonely and saggy life himself.
Then, as Wikipedia inevitably makes you do, I went off into reading about the views of every religion on homosexuality. Quite shocking was the fact that the only religion that didn’t mind it so much was Confucianism! Not that it encourages you to be gay, but it says that if you are also sleeping with the opposite sex (and not preventing yourself from procreating) it’s fine if you also sleep with the same sex for recreational purposes. Apparently, the Chinese had never even thought of monogamy till the western Christians came along. This makes a lot of sense.
All in all, I hail the Yellow Emperor Huang Di, known to be the father of all of the Han dynasty, because he was a raging peacock despite having 25 children. He pleased Confucius and himself. Let us all follow his path.
