The word sodomy originates from the sinful practice of the inhabitants of the city of Sodom and its neighbors Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim in 2087 B.C. The sinful acts in which the Sodomites engaged are referred to today as homosexuality, lesbianism or gayness where men or women have attraction to and sexual relations with the same sex. This sinful gay lifestyle occurring in the city of Sodom was so offensive to God that he did not even mind Abraham’s intercession for the people of the city. God only allowed Abraham’s nephew Lot and his immediate family to escape the destruction of the city. The men of this city were so sinful that they even tried to homosexually rape the two men who had visited Lot. Had the men not been angelic and thus used their powers to blind them, the Sodomites would have broken the door and raped them in Lot’s house.  This terrible sin of sodomy led to the unleashing of hell on earth. Fire and brimstone rained down on the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah till they were all destroyed and the only remainders were ashes (Genesis 19:24-25). The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah became a proverbial expression even in the New Testament when God wanted to express how the ungodly would burn in hell (2 Peter 2:6-8, Jude 1:7). Sodomy was so nauseating to God that he allowed hell to be poured out upon the homosexuals even before they could go there by natural death.
Sodomites again reoccurred in the Old Testament in the days of King Rehoboam when the Southern Kingdom of Judah began sliding down the path of idolatry and degeneration. Whenever there was a spiritual revival it was marked by the expulsion of sodomites as in the days of King Asa and King Jehoshaphat (1 Kings 15:12). In the days of King Jehoshaphat the sodomites had even built houses next to God’s temple but, “he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD” (2 Kings 23:7). This was a precursor and antitype of the entry of sodomy into the ranks of the church.
In later history some of the unbelieving nations and empires like the Roman Empire begun to practice sodomy. Some of the Roman emperors themselves participated in this vice. Among the many causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was the sin of sodomy. However, sodomy was not limited to Europe or Rome alone in ancient times. Even the King of Buganda (currently part of the Republic of Uganda), Kabaka Mwanga used to practice sodomy with the young men and boys who served as pages in his court in the 1800s. When some of these boys converted to Anglicanism and Catholicism they could not stand to perform the abominable homosexual acts with their gay pedophile King. When Kabaka Mwanga tried to engage in sodomy with these boys and they refused, he decided to torture some of them and put others to death. This was one of the primary causes that led to the killing of the “Uganda Martyrs” at Namugongo and other parts of the Buganda Kingdom.
The modern term “homosexual” was invented in the 1860s as a neutral alternative to “sodomy” to sugarcoat the sin and make it appear as another sexual alternative. The word “homo” is a Greek word meaning the same hence “homosexual” is having sex with the same gender. Thus it is an antithesis of “heterosexual” which denotes attraction to the opposite sex. The term “lesbianism” derives from the name of a Greek island called Lesbos. This island was the home of the female Greek poet Sappho (650-590 B.C.), who wrote love poems addressed to women. She gathered a community of women around her with whom she engaged in “lesbianism”. Other terms have been coined in the recent past to sugarcoat the blatant abomination of sodomy like the term “gay” that seems to suggest that those practicing this vice are happy.
Throughout the Old and New Testament God roundly condemns the blatant sin of sodomy. In Leviticus 20:13 the Bible states that, “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.” Here God issues out a death penalty upon those who not only commit “aggravated homosexuality” but on those who voluntarily practice homosexuality. This is not viewed by God as an alternative lifestyle but as a nasty and abominable sin. Sodomy is also condemned in the New Testament epistle to the Romans, “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet” (Romans 1:26-27). This chapter concludes by saying that all those who practice these vices are “worthy of death”. This is not surprising since sodomy is so appalling that it makes human beings stoop below the level of animals or beasts since even they in their simplicity do not engage in it. The Bible also condemns the “effeminate” or those who are commonly labeled as transgender, bisexual and transvestites. Those who assume that God turns a blind eye and deaf ear to sodomy in all its forms are in for a surprise when they share the fate of the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah.