# Sodom and Gomorrah is not about homosexuality > [!quote] > "[Sexual orientation is] an understanding of sexual activity that is less than 200 years old, and so they had no access to this particular framework… It is an act of power, not of sexual desire." McClellan reads Genesis 19 in its own categories — inhospitality and dominance-assault against outsiders — rather than the anachronistic category of homosexuality. ## Links - [[3. Resources/Permanent Notes/Anachronistic Categories Distort Interpretation of Ancient Texts]] — Genesis 19 is the case that grounds the broader warning against reading modern categories backward - [[3. Resources/MOCs/Faith & Theology MOC]] — applies-in: the MOC lists this note under Connected Literature Notes (synthesis 2026-07-21 — run 4). ## Source - [Reader: Sodom & Gomorrah is not about homosexuality (Dan McClellan)](https://read.readwise.io/read/01ktwh9q89z38k3wfv6sw3ekzk) *(vault source note pending next Readwise sync)*