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HK dresses funny, but that's not his problem.  Read enough of his posts on FE and AQ, and you'll see that there are other issues there.  

If he hangs around here a while, I'm making popcorn, because that would be fun to watch.

It's been so long since I've posted at AQ, I don't even remember what I said. I may not even agree with what I said in those days anymore.

Fair question. The short answer is that it's one of the sins described in the Old Testament that eslpecially provoked God's wrath. The Douay Catechism of 1649 provides the skinny on them, with some Scriptural citations:



CHAPTER XX – The sins that cry to Heaven for vengeance
Q. 925. HOW many such sins are there?
A. Four.

Q. 926. What is the first of them?
A. Wilful murder, which is a voluntary and unjust taking away another’s life.

Q. 927. How show you the depravity of this sin?
A. Out of Gen. iv. 10. Where it is said to Cain “What hast thou done? the voice of the blood of thy brother crieth to me from the earth: now, therefore shalt thou be cursed upon the earth.” And Matt. xxvi 52, “All that take the sword, shall perish with the sword.”

Q. 928. What is the second?
A. The sin of Sodom, or carnal sin against nature, which is a voluntary shedding of the seed of nature, out of the due use of marriage, or lust with a different sex.

Q. 929. What is the scripture proof of this?
A. Out of Gen. xix. 13. where we read of the Sodomites, and their sin. “We will destroy this place because the cry of them hath increased before our Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them,” (and they were burnt with fire from heaven.)

Q. 930. What is the third?
A. Oppressing of the poor, which is a cruel, tyrannical, and unjust dealing with inferiors.

Q. 931. What other proof have you of that?
A. Out of Exod. xxii. 21. “Ye shall not hurt the widow and the fatherless: If you do hurt them, they will cry unto me, and I will hear them cry, and my fury shall take indignation, and I will strike thee with the sword.” And out of Isa. x. 1, 2. “Wo to them that make unjust laws, that they might oppress the poor in judgment, and do violence to the cause of the humble of my people.”

Q. 932. What is the fourth?
A. To defraud working men of their wages, which is to lessen, or detain it from them.

Q. 933. What proof have you of it?
A. Out of Eccl. xxxiv. 37. “He that sheddeth blood and he that defraudeth the hired man, are brethren,” and out of James v. 4. “Behold the hire of the workmen that have reaped your fields, which is defrauded by you, crieth, and their cry hath entered into the ears of the Lord God of Sabbath."

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I have a question:

Does anyone know if there is any explanation to be found on CathInfo regarding WHY the sin of Sodom (unnatural vice) is a sin that cries to heaven for vengeance?  

Fair question. The short answer is that it's one of the sins described in the Old Testament that especially provoked God's wrath. The Douay Catechism of 1649 provides the skinny on them, with some Scriptural citations:

Thank you for your reply, HarlequinKing.

CHAPTER XX – The sins that cry to Heaven for vengeance
Q. 925. HOW many such sins are there?
A. Four.

Q. 926. What is the first of them?
A. Wilful murder, which is a voluntary and unjust taking away another’s life.

Q. 927. How show you the depravity of this sin?
A. Out of Gen. iv. 10. Where it is said to Cain “What hast thou done? the voice of the blood of thy brother crieth to me from the earth: now, therefore shalt thou be cursed upon the earth.” And Matt. xxvi 52, “All that take the sword, shall perish with the sword.”

Q. 928. What is the second?
A. The sin of Sodom, or carnal sin against nature, which is a voluntary shedding of the seed of nature, out of the due use of marriage, or lust with a different sex.

Q. 929. What is the scripture proof of this?
A. Out of Gen. xix. 13. where we read of the Sodomites, and their sin. “We will destroy this place because the cry of them hath increased before our Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them,” (and they were burnt with fire from heaven.)

I see there is a starting point, in Gen. xix. 13, so I could start there.

But I'm going to be doing a lot of Bible reading, which is okay.  I was kind of hoping someone would have a guide for which books, chapters and verses to look at for starters.

“We will destroy this place because the cry of them hath increased before our Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them,”  -- I recall not finding the answer to this question by looking for who was crying, how they cried, why they cried, and what sins caused them to cry.  I mean, it seemed there should have been a few hapless victims somewhere, who were still crying, when Lot couldn't find even 10 "just men."

The reason I'm still wondering is, the other sins are pretty much self-explanatory.  But regarding Sodomy, there is still something mysterious about it.  I could take some guesses, but I was expecting that someone has some solid reference work by someone else who has already done the "dirty work."  Pun, inescapable.

Q. 930. What is the third?
A. Oppressing of the poor, which is a cruel, tyrannical, and unjust dealing with inferiors.

Q. 931. What other proof have you of that?
A. Out of Exod. xxii. 21. “Ye shall not hurt the widow and the fatherless: If you do hurt them, they will cry unto me, and I will hear them cry, and my fury shall take indignation, and I will strike thee with the sword.” And out of Isa. x. 1, 2. “Wo to them that make unjust laws, that they might oppress the poor in judgment, and do violence to the cause of the humble of my people.”

Q. 932. What is the fourth?
A. To defraud working men of their wages, which is to lessen, or detain it from them.

Q. 933. What proof have you of it?
A. Out of Eccl. xxxiv. 37. “He that sheddeth blood and he that defraudeth the hired man, are brethren,” and out of James v. 4. “Behold the hire of the workmen that have reaped your fields, which is defrauded by you, crieth, and their cry hath entered into the ears of the Lord God of Sabbath."

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