Gen 19, 4-7 I beg you not to do this wicked thing

(Gen 19, 4-7) I beg you not to do this wicked thing

[4] Before they went to bed, all the townsmen of Sodom, both young and old - all the people to the last man - closed in on the house. [5] They called to Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to your house tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have intimacies with them." [6] Lot went out to meet them at the entrance. When he had shut the door behind him, [7] he said, "I beg you, my brothers, not to do this wicked thing.

(CCC 1867) The catechetical tradition also recalls that there are "sins that cry to heaven": the blood of Abel (Cf. Gen 4:10), the sin of the Sodomites (Cf. Gen 18:20; 19:13), the cry of the people oppressed in Egypt (Cf. Ex 3:7-10), the cry of the foreigner, the widow, and the orphan (Cf. Ex 20:20-22), injustice to the wage earner (Cf. Deut 24:14-15; Jas 5:4). (CCC 2357) Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity (Cf. Gen 191-29; Rom 124-27; 1 Cor 6:10; 1 Tim 1:10), tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered" (CDF, Persona humana 8). They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.