Sometimes the Bible is really sick

So I'm preaching on Sunday, and my text from Matthew references Sodom and Gomorrah, which I've looked at in the past since it is so central to the gay/Bible question.
This is a really disturbing story:

Angel messengers from God come to town and plan to spend the night out in the town square. They look like regular people, and would be in a very vulnerable position, since there are only two of them, and since people in those days didn't travel very much. The honor code of the time demanded that you take care of travelers, because otherwise anyone traveling on their own was sure to die. Lot, fortunately, sees them and gets them to come and stay with him. When night falls, every single man in town shows up at Lot's door to get the guests from him so that they can gang rape them.

In a blow for feminism, Lot offers his virgin daughters instead, which they refuse.

Fortunately, the angels have powers, and they blind the attackers before they can break down Lot's door. Read it for yourself here.

This reminds me of something from the movie Deliverance, or Pulp Fiction. Creepy.

And while I'm on the topic, it's not really a story about sex or sexuality. It's a story about literally raping vulnerable people. It's about total humiliation and abuse of the weak and the stranger. Using this story as an argument against homosexuality is like using the fact that there are men who rape women to argue against the institution of marriage.

For a disturbing parallel where a woman gets raped to death, try Judges 19:15-30.

I repeat: sometimes the stories in the Bible are really sick.

*end rant*